Bio and Resume
Erin Haldane is a mixed-media artist working primarily within watercolor illustration, block printing, and oil painting nature morte. She’s inspired by her love of animals, domestic spaces, symbolism and archetypes, as well as the natural world and seeks to express the subtle magic of the everyday within each of her pieces. She finds that her dreams and inner world is best expressed through her fantastical illustrations and prints and that her observation, appreciation, and meditation of the beauty of the physical world around her is best manifested through oil paint and pencil in her larger works.
Erin is native Alaskan, Tsimshian and was born in and spent most of her childhood in Anchorage, Alaska. She moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2000 and received her BFA from Santa Fe University of Art and Design in 2014. She has maintained a rigorous studio practice and her work has been shown both internationally and locally; at the Universidad Viña del Mar in Chile, in both Albuquerque and Santa Fe [New Mexico], multiple local venues in Portland and Eugene [Oregon], and was represented from 2018-2021 by Bainbridge Arts and Crafts in Bainbridge, Washington. She currently sells her work at the Railyard Artisan Market and the Tuesday Farmers Market in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Erin Haldane
www.erinhaldane.com
erin.k.haldane@gmail.com
Instagram: @erinhaldane1
Education
Santa Fe University of Art and Design Santa Fe, NM
BFA in visual arts: May, 2014 Summa Cum Laude
President’s List, Awarded Best Studio Practice, Spring 2013
Central New Mexico Community College Albuquerque, NM
Coursework in Fine Arts: January, 2011 to August, 2012
Collaborative and Group Exhibitions
2023 Amalgamation: Behind The Studio Door, Vital Spaces Gallery -
Santa Fe, NM
2020 How to Make a Better Painting, Student Juried Show, Fields Center
for the Visual Arts - Portland, OR
2018 Debutantes, Bainbridge Art Project - Bainbridge, WA
New Projects display, Bainbridge Art Project - Bainbridge, WA
2016 Sin is So In, Pop-up private house show - Eugene, OR
2015 North to the Future, Alaska Humanities Forum - Anchorage, AK
2014 Cohesion, Fine Arts Gallery at SFUAD - Santa Fe, NM
2013 Covered Walls, Critical Space Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
Range, Universidad Vina del Mar - Vina del Mar, Chile
Rare Earth, Red Dot Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
Coffee + Nicotine, Critical Space Gallery – Santa Fe, NM
Santa Monica Hostel Collective, Critical Space Gallery – Santa Fe,
NM
2012 Materialize, SFUAD Fine Arts Center – Santa Fe, NM
hARvesT, SFUAD Fine Arts Gallery – Santa Fe, NM
2007 Metro Youth Art Show, Fine Arts Gallery at Expo New Mexico -
Albuquerque, NM
Solo Exhibitions
2019 [Untitled], Townshend’s Tea Company Mississippi - Portland, OR
[Untitled], Townshend’s Tea Company Division - Portland, OR
2018 Anecdotes of the Animate and Inanimate, Townshend’s Tea Alberta - Portland, OR
Erin Haldane, Vita Cafe - Portland, OR
Erin Haldane, Dragonfly Coffee House - Portland, OR
2017 Erin Haldane, PDX Contemporary Window Project - Portland, OR
2016 Fabrications, Ninkasi Brewery - Eugene, OR
Dream Narratives, Townshend's Tea, - Eugene, OR
Woolgathering: Narratives of a Daydreamer, Wandering Goat Coffee Co. - Eugene, OR
2015 [Untitled], Kaladi Brothers Coffee - Anchorage, AK
Gallery Representation
2018 - 2021 Bainbridge Arts & Crafts, Bainbridge, WA
Collections/Commissions
2017 Modera Belmont permanent collection, Art direction by Heidi McBride, Portland, OR
Work Experience
2022-Present Vendor at Railyard Artisan Market, Santa Fe, NM
2022-Present Employee at Vital Spaces, Non-profit Arts Organization, Santa Fe, NM
2020 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Portland State University, Portland, OR
2017-2019 Private tutoring/teaching of art skills and techniques, home studio, Portland, OR
2013-2014 Intern/Illustrator, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM
Artist Assistant for Susan York, Santa Fe, NM
Intern/Artist Assistant for Harmony Hammond, Galesteo, NM