Erin Turner
eturnerinstal@gmail.com / www.eturnerinstal.com
655 Dekalb Ave 2B / Brooklyn, NY 11216 / 918.607.8629
Curriculum Vitae:
B. 1985
Education:
2017 MFA in Social Practice at Queens College, CUNY
2008 BA Painting, minors in Art History and Spanish, University of Tulsa
2007 Painting Program La Universidad del Museo Social Argentino
2004 Summer Painting Studio at Escola de la Llotja, Barcelona, through The School of Visual Arts
2003-2004 Pratt Institute
Solo Shows:
2023 TOTEM: As Monument & Archive, photographic exhibition at the Center for Public Secrets, Tulsa (book)
2017 ‘we hang like clouds between heaven and earth, between something and nothing, sometimes with shadows, sometimes without’, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Klapper Hall Gallery, Queens College
2017 Strange Weather, The Radford University Art Museum, Radford, Virginia
2016 LAND, art exhibition at 329 Grand Street, Brooklyn
2012 Water Ballet, exhibition and art direction for dance, Living Arts of Tulsa
2011 Hair, Dwelling Spaces, Tulsa
2011 The Totem and the Ocean, Bluxome Point Gallery, San Francisco
2010 Hair Show, Lloyd Gallery, Pawhuska
2010 e.turnity, The Eclipse, Tulsa
2009 Photo and Paint, Shades of Brown, Tulsa
2009 New Works by Erin Turner, The Wild Fork, Tulsa
2007 Caballo-Pato Fiebre, Liggett Studios, Tulsa
2005 The Romantic Life of the Common Eel, The Blue Moon, Tulsa
2003 e.turner, The Wild Fork, Tulsa
2/3-Person Shows:
2023 The distance between a falling empire and dust, Dulphe Pinheiro-Machado & Erin Turner, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, NYC
2016 Protecting Our Nature and Our Sacred Land, Images from Oak Flat, Erin Turner, Floor Grootenhuis, Vansler Nosie (Standing Fox), Queens Museum, NYC
2011 Chris Mantel and Erin Turner, Tulsa
2010 Witness I: Tulsa Race Massacre on-site sculptural installation, Erin Turner and Carolyn Deuschle, Tulsa
2009 Corazon Sagrado, Erin Turner and Lydia Moore, Day of the Dead Festival at Living Arts of Tulsa
2008 Dactyl Attactyl, Erin Turner and Robert Stuart III, Scissortail Industries, Tulsa
2005 Welcome to the Jungle, Erin Turner, Margo Hoover, Carolyn Deuschle, The Space Gallery, Tulsa
Selected Group Shows:
2024 Stream Chapter 7: Object/Hyperobject, 4th Corner Foundation, Windham, Vermont, curated by Cindy Smith
2021 Art as Social Action: 10 Years of Social Practice Queens, Queens Museum, curated by Chloë Bass and Gregory Sholette (catalog)
2021 Civic Art Lab: Regenerative Futures, Chinatown Soup, NYC
2020 Ego to Eco, curated by Nadine Braquetti, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY (catalog)
2019 Ecologías, curated by TIERRA: espacio para habitar, Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá, Colombia (catalog)
2018 11th Annual Governors Island Art Fair, New York City
2017 Memories of Future Landscapes, curated by Cheon Pyo Lee, El Museo de los Sures, Brooklyn
2017 Home of Practice, James Gallery at the CUNY Graduate Center, curated by Katherine Carl and Chloë Bass
2017 Gestures & Junctures, Questions & Quotes, curated by Paul D’Agostino, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn (catalog)
2016 Atlas, Index, Archive, curated by Adriana Pauley, Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library, Queens College
2016 Dining with Vultures, curated by Sarah Fritchey, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn (catalog)
2016 Material Archive, curated by Adriana Pauley and The Chimney, Klapper Gallery, Queens College
2015 CODA Paper Art Biennial, CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands (catalog)
2010 Crying Woman Installation, New Genre Festival XVII at the Living Arts of Tulsa
2006 Momentum Tulsa, Mathews Building, Tulsa
2006 38th Annual Gussman Awards, Alexander Hogue Gallery, Tulsa and Artists Coalition Gallery, Tulsa Performing Arts Center Gallery, Tulsa (Honorable Mention Award)
2004 Freshman Retrospective, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn (20 freshmen chosen)
Installations/Collaborations:
2023 TOTEM: As Monument & Archive, in partnership with Rogers County Historical Society, Oklahoma Historical Society, and Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, public lecture and workshop series with the Ed Galloway Totem Pole Park, Foyil, Claremore, and Tulsa Oklahoma (publication)
2023 Interactive mural in honor of Sandy Ground Oysterman, in partnership with the Billion Oyster Project, Governor’s Island, NYC
2023 Interviews with New Washington Heights, in partnership with the Anthropocene Alliance and Sustaining Way, Greenville, South Carolina
2023 Art Build for Apache Stronghold at Ninth Circuit Court in Los Angeles
2022 After Much Meandering, EunWoo Nam & Erin Turner, participatory walking workshops in collaboration with Civic Art Lab, NYC
2021 Drawing From Water, EunWoo Nam & Erin Turner, drawing, walking, and memory workshops in collaboration with Civic Art Lab, NYC
2021 Drawing From Water, Carolyn Hall, Simone Johnson, EunWoo Nam, and Erin Turner, Governors Island collaboration: drawing, walking, intimacy scores, and memory workshops
2019 Pico del Colibrí, collaboration with Fundación Montecito in Sogamoso, Colombia
2018 Caravan with Apache Stronghold to Washington DC for Poor People's Campaign
2018 Sculptures that Talk, research and public art project in collaboration with the Apache Stronghold
2017 The Nature Perception Project, an itinerancy walk at Forest Park, Queens, Uno Nam (co-director), Jeff Kasper (urban planning specialist), Lia Kim Farnsworth (artist), and Gwen Shockey (artist)
2017 CREATE, a fundraiser for AHHA (Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa, Hardesty Art Center), a collaboration with The First Ward. A series of installations and performances designed, directed, and curated by Erin Turner.
2017 Protecting Our Nature and Our Sacred Land: in conversation with Wendsler Nosie and Apache Stronghold. Floor Grootenhuis, Vansler Nosie, Erin Turner & Social Practice Queens. A conversation at Mierle Laderman Ukeles Peace Table. Queens Museum, NYC
2016 Amphitheater Ecology, with Jeff Kasper, Erin Turner, Naomi Paul, and Hilma Krla, a fabric, audio, and walking tour installation, Queen's College Amphitheater, NYC
https://qcpublicart.wordpress.com/portfolio/amphitheater-ecology/
2015 Nomads, a photographic installation in Moab, Utah
2015-present Ed Galloway’s Totem Pole Park restoration and curation, in partnership with Rogers County Historical Society
2014 A Tornado Dance, with Cody Ross, Jamie Matson, Kimberly Krebs, and Amy Oelsner, directed by Erin Turner and Jacob Lincoln, Brooklyn, NY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tO1knBsLZ0
2013 Fernando Pessoa, Southern France Installation Tour
2013 Atelier Sud at Studio Tanguey, a residency and performance
2013 Ephemeral Art Festival, part of the Harlem River Festival, Swindler’s Cove Public Art Installation
2013 Dance of the Bee, selected artist for entry-way installation at the Tulsa Children’s Museum
2012 Water Ballet, a dance in collaboration with Tulsa Modern Movement (TuMM)
2012 FabLab Symposium, Tulsa
2012 Easter Island Music and Art Festival, installation build-out
2012 Remains, dance installation and performance
2011 New Year’s Eve with Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, installation and costume designThe Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa
2011 The Burning of the Worm, Ocean Beach, San Francisco
2011 Environmental Installation Design for Space Bar, Roberta’s Restaurant at the Scope International Gallery Festival, New York City
2011 Unknown State, costume design for short science fiction film, Tulsa
2011 Cinder Monster, performance and Installation, The Firehouse, Kansas City
2011 Suchness, costume design for modern dance performance, Tulsa Modern Movement (TuMM), Tulsa
2011 A Show for the Jungle, installation, Koh Phangan, Thailand
2011 Quetzalcoatl, installation, Koh Phangan, Thailand
2011 Eye of the Storm, installation, Gokarna, India
2011 Poly’s Gone, traveling Installation, Grand Canyon, Mohave Desert, Fort Funston
2010 Blue Demon, permanent installation at Elote Restaurant and Bar, Tulsa
2010 Space Worm, installation, Olga Crespo Gallery, Wilmington, North Carolina
2010 Song of the Swimming Sun, set design for Soluna Dance Company, Tulsa Performing Arts Center (catalog)
2010 Burning Head, performance and installation, Yellow House, Tulsa
2010 Space Worm, installation, This Land Press Office, Tulsa
2009 TranscenDANCE, co-director & set design, SummerStage Festival, Performing Arts Center, Tulsa (catalog)
Honors, Awards, Grants, Residencies:
2023 THRIVE Grant, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition for TOTEM: As Monument & Archive
2023 Historic Preservation Grant, Oklahoma Historic Society, in collaboration with Rogers County Historic Society for TOTEM: As Monument & Archive
2022 Hundred Monkey Ranch residency, Osage County, Oklahoma
2021 4heads residency at Governors Island, NYC
2020 4heads residency at Governors Island, NYC
2019 Tierra: espacio para habitar residency for how to fall in love with a river / como enamorarse de un río, Bogotá, Colombia
2017 Action Art Grant possible through Social Practice Queens (SPQ), the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, and the Vilcek Foundation via the Queens College Foundation
2017 Oklahoma State Historic Preservation Officers Citation of Merit for the Ed Galloway Totem Pole Park
2017 Selected for the 2017 Coyote Walk with Dillon de Give and the Walk Exchange, itinerancy walk from Central Park to Rockefeller State Park Preserve
2016 Jamaica Flux: Workspaces and Windows, essay selected to be included in the printed catalog; "Observing the Anthropocene: Staring back at the Eye in the Sky", by Erin Turner
2016 Action Art Grant possible through Queen’s College, Queen's Museum, and the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation
2009 People’s Choice Awards, Tulsa
2006 Honorable Mention for Painting, 38th Annual Gussman Awards, The University of Tulsa
Selected Publications:
2024 TOTEM: As Monument & Archive, a publication about the public project at the Ed Galloway Totem Pole Park, currently being edited
2024 We Belong to the Land, edited by Russell Cobb and Lindsey Claire Smith, currently being edited
2018 Art as Social Action: An introduction to the Principles and Practices of Teaching Social Practice Art, by Gregory Sholette, Chloe Bass, and Social Practice Queens, contributing artist, project, and writer
2017, Erin Turner, “Why an Apache Artist’s Photos are Inextricable from his Activism”, Hyperallergic
https://hyperallergic.com/358335/why-an-apache-artists-photos-are-inextricable-from-his-activism/
2016 Jamaica Flux: Workspaces and Windows, essay selected to be included in the printed catalog; “Observing the Anthropocene: Staring back at the Eye in the Sky”, by Erin Turner
http://spacesarchives.org/explore/collection/environment/totem-pole-park/
http://thislandpress.com/2012/07/28/til-the-cows-come-home/
http://thislandpress.com/2012/01/29/the-snake-and-the-diamond-are-one/
http://thislandpress.com/2011/10/01/letter-from-borneo-the-land-beneath-the-wind/
Selected Bibliography:
http://www.dorsky.org/Brochure%20PDFs/1909Poem_web.pdf
https://fineartglobe.com/artists/erin-turner-strange-weather-sculpture/
https://hyperallergic.com/458062/immerse-yourself-in-the-ghoulish-art-on-governors-island/
https://news.artnet.com/market/governors-island-art-fair-artists-to-watch-1341140
http://www.paperbagazine.com/IssueNo9/Contents.html
https://hyperallergic.com/268408/the-monumental-totem-poles-built-by-a-retired-oklahoma-art-teacher/
http://moreclaremore.com/2016/07/12/worlds-largest-totem-pole-gets-a-facelift/
http://www.allthingspaper.net/2013/10/installation-artist-erin-turner.html
http://www.brooklyndaily.com/stories/2013/17/24_newspaperartist_2013_04_26_bk.html
http://thislandpress.com/01/29/2012/the-snake-and-the-diamond-are-one/#disqus_thread
http://studiovisitmagazine.com/volume-fifteen
http://tulsadances.wordpress.com/2012/09/06/celebrating-collaborations-water-ballet/#comment-269
http://thislandpress.com/06/20/2010/guerilla-remembrance/
http://issuu.com/ovac/docs/artfocus-mayjun10
http://www.tulsapeople.com/Tulsa-People/August-2009/The-peoples-choice/
Selected Professional Experiences:
2024 Getty Paper Project Coordinator/facilitator: SCRATCH THE SURFACE: Knowledge Transfer and Reciprocity in the Printmaking Practice of Edgar Heap of Birds, a weekend of conversations/workshops at the Oklahoma Contemporary Art Center focused on Indigenous expression within the studio setting in collaboration with artist Edgar Heap of Birds and curator Pablo Barrera
2024 Visiting Artist: Chicago Art Institute, Better Homes and Gardens with Annalise Flynn, On TOTEM: As Monument & Archive
2023 Director, program coordinator, design and implementation of public workshops “TOTEM: As Monument & Archive”, in partnership with the Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, and Rogers County Historical Society on Native representation and restoration at the Ed Galloway Totem Pole Park
2014-Present Restoration Artist and Site Curator for the Ed Galloway Totem Pole Park
2017-2022 Production Manager for Martha Rosler Studio
2017 Visiting Artist: Radford University, workshop collaborations with choral and dance groups focused on the exhibition “Strange Weather”, thinking about how we talk about ‘climate change’
2017 Visiting Artist: Tulsa Community College, workshops on digital glitching, sun printing, and how we talk about ‘Climate Change’
2017 Teaching Artist: More Art - public programing with ESL immigrant communities and Andrea Mastrovito’s NYSFERATU
2017 Teaching Artist: CASA Department of Cultural Affairs Grant for Art Education (2017)
2012-2016 Teaching Artist: Wingspan Arts, an afterschool art program in NYC
2016 Artist Assistant for Mariam Ghani for selected photographic manipulations
2012 Artist Assistant for Anna K.E for selected projects
2011 Production Manager: GS Productions, FLY—The Land Beneath the Wind, Borneo, Malaysia
2010-2011 Teaching Artist: Project Creates, Living Arts of Tulsa
2011 Creative design team for Roberta’s pop-up restaurant: SPACE BAR at the Scope Art Fair, NYC
2009-2011 Program Coordinator: Living Arts of Tulsa, Art Core Studio Program
2010-Present Production Design: commercial, photo, video, dance
2010-2011 Art Director, Stage Manager, Set & Costume Design for local variety television production, Tulsa
2009 Artist Assistant for Grant McClintock for Swimming in the Osage project, Oklahoma
2009 Sculpture Artist in Residence: Living Arts of Tulsa, New Arts Camp. Tulsa (2009).
2007-2009 Art Coordinator: Resonance, Center for Women, Inc, Tulsa. Arts programming for at-risk women, Tulsa
2007 Artist Assistant and Archivist for Fernando “Coco” Bedoya and Tierraviva, an arts program functioning at Ezeiza No. 3, maximum security prison, Argentina
Selected Panels and Talks:
2024 TOTEM: As Monument & Archive, with the Network for Artist-Built Environments at the John Michael Kohler Art Preserve
2023 TOTEM: As Monument, Will Rogers Memorial Museum, Claremore, Oklahoma
2023 TOTEM: As Archive, Center for Public Secrets, Tulsa, Oklahoma
2021 Montez Press Radio: Dia Art Foundation, Water as Witness x Water as Protagonist: Ashanti Chaplin in conversation with artists Carolyn Hall, Simone Johnson, EunWoo Nam, and Erin Turner
https://radio.montezpress.com/#/show/1716
2019 Cómo enamorarse de un río, la Cátedra Fulbright, Resiliencia: crisis y reorganización en la Universidad del Tolima
2018 Sculptures That Talk, Open Engagement, Queens Museum
2018 Are We There Yet? Preservation of Roadside Architecture & Attractions Symposium, National Park Service, presentation on the Ed Galloway Totem Pole Park, Tulsa City-County Library
2017 Tulsa Community College, Visiting Artist Lecture Series
2017 Care as Culture: a convening bringing service work, ecofeminist art, and experts on climate change together, committee member who designed and curated this conversation at the Mierle Laderman Ukeles Peace Table, Queens Museum, NYC
2017 Protecting Our Nature and Our Sacred Land: in conversation with Wendsler Nosie and Apache Stronghold. Floor Grootenhuis, Vansler Nosie, Erin Turner & Social Practice Queens. A conversation at Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ Peace Table, Queens Museum, NYC
2015 Rogers County Historical Society, Guest Lecturer on Grassroots Preservation at the Ed Galloway Totem Pole Park
2016 Atlas, Index, Archive, The Art Center, Queens College Library, panelist speaking about contemporary uses of the archive
Last updated January 2025