Eric Zetterquist

BIOGRAPHY

Born in Youngstown, Ohio (USA), Eric Zetterquist spent two years studying in Japan, before graduating from New York University. He worked for renowned photographer and antiquities dealer, Hiroshi Sugimoto for ten years, before breaking out on his own in 1992 to establish Zetterquist Galleries in New York. During his time with Sugimoto, he was exposed to both the high-end contemporary photography world, as well as the finest of Asian antiquities.

Since the establishment of his gallery, Zetterquist has continued with photography, both as artist and dealer. His main focus, however, has been pre-fourteenth century Asian ceramics with a specialty in the art of the Song Dynasty (960-1279 A.D., China). He has authored and photographed several internationally distributed catalogs in the field.
This unique combination of skills and expertise led to the “Object Portrait” series of highly abstracted details of ancient ceramics. It is an ultimate East-Meets-West and Old-Meets-New project that reveals his early influences of Sugimoto, Ellsworth Kelly, and the countless Song Dynasty masterpieces that he has handled over the last two decades. Originally developed as a way to help his clients understand how we perceive the...

New York University

Museum Exhibitions:
2014 Commission from the Philadelphia Museum of Art to create an installation of five large-scale pieces for their newly renovated Chinese galleries.
2017 One Man Show The Museum of South East Asian Ceramics, Bangkok
2018 - 2019 One Man Show at the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka Japan.

Group Exhibitions:
2015 “Signal 8” exhibition at the Cat Street Gallery in Hong Kong
2016 Literati/Curiosity II exhibition and sale at Sotheby’s, Hong Kong.
2018 "Vasa Vasorum" Peters Projects, Santa Fe, NM.
2019 Each Modern at Taipei Dangdai