Erica Gressman is a Miami-born, mixed Latinx queer artist working in Chicago who fuses sound art with performance. She received her BA from New College of Florida and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Department of Performance in 2012. She has performed at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Royal Danish Art Academy, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Pittsburgh’s VIA: video/music festival, New York’s Grace Exhibition Space, Defibrillator Gallery and Miami Art Center. Her work 'Wall of Skin' has been featured in Performance Matters journal, Barbed Magazine, and Emergency Index Vol. 2. In 2019, they received Illinois Arts Council Fellowship for their work, 'Limbs', debuted at the Krannert Art Museum.
Image: Erica Gressman, Limbs (2018). Performance/ New Media art. Krannert Art Museum. Photo credit Alicia Rodriguez.
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