Erin Turner is a site-specific installation artist, painter, writer, and social practitioner interested in landscape philosophy, preservation, and collaboration. Ephemerality, (im)permanence, intimacy and the entangled relationships between humans and environment coalesce in her interdisciplinary works, an ode to the themes of absence and recovery. Her most recent projects question the implications of mineral extraction, alternative histories, and the politics of invisibility and erasure.
Recent work has been seen at Will Rogers Memorial Museum, Center for Public Secrets, 4th Corner Foundation, Dorsky Gallery, Queens Museum, CODA Apeldoorn, Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá, Governors Island Art Fair, and Radford University Art Museum. In 2023 she received the Oklahoma Historical Society Preservation Grant and the THRIVE Grant from the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition for her project TOTEM: As Monument & Archive, a lecture and workshop series which centered contemporary Indigenous perspective on issues of representation and invisibility at an artist-built environment in NE Oklahoma created as a monument to the American Indian in the 1940s.
Turner has attended Pratt Institute, La LLOYTA, the University of Tulsa, and La Universidad de Museum Social Argentino, received her BA in Painting and Spanish from TU and her MFA in Social Practice from Queens College in 2018. She has guest lectured at the Kohler Art Preserve for ABEN, Chicago Art Institute, Tulsa Community College, the National Park Service, Universidad de Ibagué for Fulbright, and the Queens Museum for Open Engagement. She splits her time between NYC, Oklahoma, and Colombia.
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January 2025