Erica Bailey (b. 1975) is a visual artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, installation, and video. Raised in a small-town, working-class family, she pursued her higher education at public state colleges, earning her MFA in 2007 from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio. Her early career focused on complex installations that merged built architectural spaces, dioramas, and video. Today, her practice centers on video art, isolating and editing natural imagery—such as the movement of clouds, water, plants, and animals—to elicit an both pathos and awe. Through these moving images, Bailey investigates themes of non-human experience, ecological anxiety surrounding a collapsing natural world, impermanence, and transmutation.
After spending a decade living and working in New York City, Bailey relocated to the central west coast of California, where she is currently based. She has exhibited her work widely at prominent institutions, including Smack Mellon (Brooklyn, NY), Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space (Manhattan, NY), the Roswell Museum (Roswell, NM), the Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati, OH), and the Bronx Museum of the Arts (Bronx, NY). She has also been awarded competitive artist residencies, including the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program (RAiR), the Artists Alliance Inc. LES Studio Program (Manhattan, NY), and the BronxArtSpace Summer Residency.
For her thoughts on recent work visit VIDEO.