Discipline: Visual Art – sculpture

Erin Shirreff

Discipline: Visual Art – sculpture
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2009
More: www.erinshirreff.com
Erin Shirreff is a Canadian-born, New York-based artist who works primarily in photography, sculpture, and video. In 2011, Shirreff was the recipient of both The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant and the Canada Council for the Arts Project Grant. She has also won the Aimia/AGO Photography Prize from the Art Gallery of Ontario In 2005, Shirreff received The Hayward Prize for Fine Arts from The Austrian-American Foundation. She has also been an artist-in-residence at Artpace in San Antonio, Texas (2013), at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas (2011), at The Western Front Society in Vancouver, British Columbia (2010), at MacDowell, and the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture in Dawson City, Yukon (2005).

Studios

Alexander

Erin Shirreff worked in the Alexander studio.

Originally designed to be a visual art gallery, this facility was built in memory of the late John White Alexander (1856-1915) and funded by Elizabeth Alexander and their son James. John White Alexander was highly regarded as a portrait painter and, in the early part of the 20th century, served…

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