"FEMME FATASHER" Collage

Eriko Tsogo is a Mongolian American multidisciplinary artist, curator, cultural producer and journalist based in Colorado and New York. She is the founder of HILITEHEAD, a blog platform exploring consciousness, culture, and emerging spiritual movements. She has a B.F.A (2012) from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and M.F.A (2015) from Tufts University. Eriko grew up in Budapest, Hungary and immigrated to the United States with her family in 1999.

Eriko has had numerous art exhibitions, curatorial, social practice projects and art residencies throughout the United States. She has been the recipient of ACE Foundation Scholarship, “Juuh” Honorarium by the Mongolian Ministry of Education Culture and Science, Alliance for Artist Communities Fellowship, The Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, Colorado Creative Industries Artist Grant, Fountainhead Arts, and Video Art Fellow at BRIC Arts Media (Brooklyn, NY).

From 2012 to 2021, Eriko worked as the Creative Director at the Mongolian Culture and Heritage Center of Colorado where she founded the “International Yurt Art Residency Program” in collaboration with Drala Mountain Center.

Eriko has exhibited at the Currier Art Museum (2022), Contemporary Mongolian Art Biennial: Innovating Tradition in Washington DC (2019), Superfine Art Fair (2018), Art Basel Miami Beach (2019), and Saatchi's The Other Art Fair in Brooklyn (2020, 2023), Los Angeles (2021) and Chicago (2021). Her animated short film “Tears of the Sky” has screened at the Colorado Dragon Film Festival and Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival. Eriko is the creator of MONGOVOO interactive room at Meow Wolf Denver and HERO5079 mural at Center for Visual Arts in Denver. She is represented by Tappan Gallery (Los Angeles, CA).