Erik Schmitt

About Erik Schmitt

Berkeley, CA

Erik's interest in the arts was borne out of an upbringing in a family of creative people—a father and 2 aunts who attended Black Mountain College and exposed him to the visual arts and fired his imagination with stories of studying with Robert Rauschenberg, Josef Albers, Ruth Asawa and Merce Cunningham. He grew up in Seattle and the San Juan Islands but moved to the Bay Area to study at the California College of the Arts. There he found himself in the midst of a Bauhaus–inspired approach to arts education–studying design, photography and painting. This lack of barriers between the branches of the arts continues to inform his work.

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Selected Exhibitions

Scuola Graphica
Venice, Italy, 2024
Photolucida
Portland, Oregon, 2022
American Academy in Rome
Rome, Italy, 2022
Photography Served
San Francisco, California, 2010
The Center for Fine Art Photography
Fort Collins, Colorado, 2010
ArtSlant Showcase
San Francisco, California, 2009
Cecile Moochnek Gallery
Berkeley, California, 2006

Press and Accolades

Artweek Magazine
September 2006
The New Yorker, Lauren Collins has some fascinating things to say about marginalia
2015
Fast Company, A Kindle designerâs touching online memorial to the marginalia scribbled in books
2015

Education

Kala Art Institute, Artist Residency
Berkeley, California,2012
Owens Valley Photography Workshop, Workshop with John Sexton
Carmel, California,1995
California College of the Arts, BFA
San Francisco, California,1993

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