Pedagogy Study Hall: Closing Day Talk/Draw

About Eric N. Mack

Eric N. Mack (b. 1987, Columbia, MD) is a painter who radically reconsiders the medium’s traditional conventions. By utilizing found materials, Mack creates richly textured compositions that investigate painting in an expanded field and formal concerns of the practice. Mack has a one-person exhibition and site-specific installation at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH. Concurrently, Mack is presenting new works at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York.

Mack attended The Cooper Union, NY (BFA) and Yale University, CT (MFA) and is the recipient of prestigious awards and residencies including the Chinati Foundation’s Artists in Residence Program (2023); the Rome Prize (2021-2022); the inaugural BALTIC Artists’ Award (2017); the Rauschenberg Residency on Captiva Island (2017); the Delfina Foundation Residency (2017) and the Studio Museum in Harlem Residency (2014-2015). Previous one-person exhibitions include Eric N. Mack, Paula Cooper Gallery (2023); Scampolo!, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin (2022); Lemme walk across the room, Brooklyn Museum, NY (2019) and NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, FL (2021), and In austerity, stripped from its support and worn as a sarong, The Power Station, Dallas, TX (2019). Major group exhibitions include Chronorama Redux, Palazzo Grassi, Venice (2023); Whitney Biennial 2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, and Greater New York, MoMA PS1, NY (2015).Work by Mack is in the permanent collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery; the Studio Museum in Harlem; the Brooklyn Museum; the Baltimore Museum; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Mack lives and works in New York.is Program Coordinator for the Shriver Peaceworker Fellows Program at UMBC and a contracting grant writer at Benvenuti Arts. With a background in public policy, international development, and arts consulting, she’s worked with organizations ike the African Development Bank, the Cook Center for Social Equity, and Elements Urban Arts Collective. Beyond her academic and consulting work, M’Balou is a DJ, storyteller, and artistic researcher who enjoys poetry, time in nature, and building creative community.