Bio and Resume

Erin Haldane is a mixed-media artist working primarily within watercolor illustration, block printing, and oil painting. She’s inspired by her family heritage, 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. Haldane is mostly self-taught in the style of Formline and has been studying it for several years, incorporating it into her studio practice as a way to honor her family and maintain her culture. As a person of mixed heritage, she finds it very important to express her unique perspective, rather than act as a representative for peoples outside of her immediate family. She believes in the power of art and mark-making to bring people together, transform lives, and celebrate our shared experiences as well as our beautiful and indispensable diversity. 

Haldane 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. Haldane has moved around extensively throughout her adult life, frequently visiting her birth place of Alaska, living in Washington state, Brooklyn, New York, and Portland, Oregon, before returning to her forever home of New Mexico in 2021. Meanwhile, she has maintained a rigorous studio practice and her work has been shown both internationally and locally. She self-published a Tarot Deck, The Heartspun Tarot, in 2020 (now out of print), spent years working at artisan markets, and selling her work online, and she is now set to graduate from the Institute of American Indian Arts with a Masters in Studio Arts in 2027. She also currently works for the non-profit arts and community organization, Vital Spaces Santa Fe, as an administrative manager, the Art Closet program organizer, as well as doing some curatorial and event coordination work.

Haldane hopes to continue to make art the center of her life while sharing her knowledge, experience, and skills with others, as a teacher, community member, and artist.

Erin Haldane

www.erinhaldane.com

erin.k.haldane@gmail.com

Instagram: @erinhaldane1


Education

The Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM

MFA in Studio Arts, projected 2027

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

2025 SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market, Santa Fe, NM

2023 Amalgamation: Behind The Studio Door, Vital Spaces Gallery -

Santa Fe, NM

2022 Beyond Ordinary: The Still Life Exhibit, New Mexico Art League,

Albuquerque, NM

2021 Over, Under, & Through: Three Artists, Three Perspectives. Bainbridge

Arts & Crafts Gallery, Bainbridge, WA

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 Organizational Support at Vital Spaces, Non-profit Arts and Community Organization, Santa Fe, NM

2022-2024 Vendor at Railyard Artisan Market, 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