Erica Magrey
Born 1977, lives and works in Brooklyn.


Education
2004-2006 MFA in Photography, Video, & Related Media, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1995-1999 BFA in Photography, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Bloomfield, CT
1998 Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland


Solo Exhibitions


2007
Troubadour, Project Room at Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, FL


Two-Person Exhibitions


2009
Shana Moulton and Erica Magrey, Starlight Cinema, Madison, WI (performance and screening)

2005
You’ve Got a Friend: Generica Collaborations and Solo Works by Jennifer Sullivan and Erica Magrey
, Sixtyseven, New York, NY


Selected Exhibitions, Screenings, and Performances

Upcoming
100 Records, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA (group show)
Kate Bush Dance Troupe, Cleopatra's, Brooklyn, NY (collaborative performance)

2010
Body Blend by AUNTS, Dixon Place, New York, NY (solo and collaborative performance, costume design)
Rock Dreams: Artist-Made Songs, INDEX Art Center, Newark, NY (group show and performance)


2009
Nancy Garcia/Chase Granoff, The Kitchen, New York, NY (Kate Bush Dance Troupe performance and costume design)
Seven Easy Steps: Social Improvement, Horton & Liu, New York, NY, curated by Amanda Schmitt (screening)
Fall Collection
, Art Book Fair, PS1, Queens, NY (costume design)
Goddess Headdress Workshop, Heist Gallery, New York, NY (collaboration with Jennifer Sullivan)
Kate Bush Dance Troupe
, 179 Canal, New York, NY (collaborative performance)
Recession Runway , NADA Party at Bumble and Bumble, New York, NY, curated by Jennifer Sullivan (costume design and performance)

All Girls Music Night, Club Europa, Brooklyn, NY (performance and screening)

2008
Whoop Dee Doo at Deitch Projects Holiday Party,Santos Party House, New York, NY (performance)
Avatar Atavistic, Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NY (group show)
Vaudeville Park Fundraiser, Brooklyn, NY (collaborative performance)
Kate Bush Dance Troupe, New York, NY (collaborative performance)
Nakedly, Monkeytown, New York, NY, curated by Jennifer Sullivan (screening)
WJEN Radio Presents: It’s a Process Live!, Cakeshop, New York, NY, hosted by Jennifer Sullivan (performance)
Performance Night at A.I.R., A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Emily Harris (performance)
Performance Laboratory, Broadway 1602, New York, NY, curated by Shana Moulton (performance)
Metalmags Live!, with Anna Oxygen, Katie Eastburn, Vivian Girls, & the Coathangers, Death by Audio, Brooklyn, NY (performance)

2007
Videogarden, Bard-ICP MFA Studios, Queens, NY (group show)
Metalmags Live! The Pawn Shop, Miami, FL (performance)
Die Young Stay Pretty, curated by Jose Carlos Diaz, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, FL (group show)
Metalmags Live! @ The French Are Drumming, Bard-ICP MFA Studios, Queens, NY (performance)
A Kind of Love, Ai Gallery, Chicago, IL (group show)
Neurotic Naturalism, Monkeytown, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Jennifer Sullivan (screening)
Chasing Cool, Bowery Poetry Club, New York, NY, curated by David and Adira Amram (screening)


2006

Chic-A-Go-Go Halloween Special, CAN-TV Studios, Chicago, IL (performance)
SVA Photography, Video, and Related Media MFA Screening, Florence Gould Hall, New York, NY
The Early Work, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY (MFA degree show)
Cheap Shots: Low Budget Ladies Make You Laugh, Heathers, New York, NY, curated by Sophia Peer (screening)


2005
Sympathetic Magic, Planaria Gallery, New York, NY (group show and performance)
Primed: MFA Thesis Show, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY (group show)
Generica Live!, Def, Dum, and Hi Tour w/Airbrains, Juiceboxx, and Potato, Glass House Gallery, Brooklyn, NY and Flywheel, Easthampton, MA (performances)


2004
The Infinite Fill Show, Foxy Productions, New York, NY (group show)
La Superette, The Tank Annex, New York, NY (group show and performance)
Desert Swap Meet, High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree, CA (group show)
Your Heart is No Match for My Love, Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN (group show)
Spring Student Salon, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY (screening)


2003
Summer Salon, Dumba Art Collective, Brooklyn, NY (group show)

2001
WAMP Group Show, The Cork Factory, Brooklyn, NY
Kristin, Miss Porter’s School, Farmington, CT (solo show and guest speaker)


1999
Circles Group Exhibition, Artspace, Hartford, CT
Group Show, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT


1998
Photography Group Show, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland

Visiting Artist
2010 Teaching Artists' Union, Brooklyn, NY
2007 The Churchill School, New York, NY
2006 Betsy Ross Arts Magnet School, New Haven, CT
2001 Miss Porter’s School, Farmington, CT


Bibliography
2009 Kourlas, Gia, "Looking Back, and Taking It Forward," The New York Times, Nov 6, 2009
2009
Lyons, Matthew, "Interview with Kate Bush Dance Troupe," The Art of Making Dances, Nov 2009
2009
Photographs and headdress plublished in Threads Magazine, Issue #1, Sept 2009
2009
Cook, Mary, "Haberdashery, Anyone?" Art 21 blog, Julne 5 2009
2008
Capper, Beth, "The Void," Plan B Magazine, July 2008
2005
Smith, Roberta, “Sympathetic Magic,” The New York Times, March 11, 2005

2004 Drawings published in Swingset Magazine, Issue #5
2003 Drawings published in Swingset Magazine, Issue #4
2003 Photographs published in Swingset Magazine, Issue #3

Writing
2005 “Open Mike,” Interview With Michael Smith, Swingset Magazine, Issue #7
2004 “Blessing in Disguise,” Interview with Mingering Mike, Swingset Magazine, Issue #5
2002 “Erica Magrey Introduces Sam Brown of Explodingdog.com,” Swingset Magazine, Issue #2


HOME