Erik Hudson

In 2004 Hudson graduated from The University of Wales Institute Cardiff (UWIC) with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree specializing in sculpture. Hudson's style is a mixture of street art, abstract expressionism and modern art. Predominantly working with spray paint, acrylic paint, ink and permanent marker on a variety of surfaces such as canvas, wood, cement, stone and metal. 

Born 1983 in England, Erik Hudson was raised by his hippy mother who is also an artist. As a child Hudson grew up surrounded by artists and musicians who inspired him to be creative and focus his attention towards studying fine art from an early age.


“ERIK HUDSON’S PAINTINGS ARE A PRIMITIVE EXPRESSION OF CONTEMPORARY CULTURE

Erik Hudson’s paintings follow a familiar aesthetic, one that is bound up in contemporary culture, graffiti art, Neo-expressionism and Primitivism, his pictures rooted in the work of Basquiat, Enzo Cucchi and other painters of the 1970’s and 1980’s who came out of the New York scene.

Like his predecessors Hudson’s paintings are a direct expression, there is no medium through which they are distilled before they hit the canvas , their energy culminates as an immediate response, without care, a punk attitude that has been an inte...

BA (Hons) Fine Art

'Nature always wins'
10th October 2015
GO Gallery
Prinsengracht 64
1015 DX
Amsterdam

'Transient Echos'
11th February 2017
Antiek Tattoo Gallery
Rozengracht 184
1016 NK
Amsterdam

'Through The Keyhole'
25th March 2017
GO Gallery
Prinsengracht 64
1015 DX
Amsterdam

'Grande Finale'
13th May 2017
GO Gallery
Prinsengracht 64
1015 DX
Amsterdam

Solo exhibition@ A Tale of a Tub
6th September 2023
Justus van Effenstraat 44
3027 TK
Rotterdam

Solo Exhibition@ The Coffee Co
10th February 2024
Eendrachtsplein 2
3012 LA
Rotterdam