Erin Tengquist

I love exploring and pushing the boundaries with new work and old work. My main medium is photography, and I do love shooting and editing video. Going back in previous catalogues like swimming deep in the ocean to find the relics of the past to bring them to light.

The bright graphic colorful series "File Under M for Memory Me." explores my images in a bold representational kind of way of points in my life that i feel are bullet points of icons.


The world changed in 2020 and I’m not sure if it got bigger or smaller since Covid. These photographic images presented in a cellular way is what binds my memory and preserves the future of my photography canon. Reappropriating my previous photography giving them freedom to change sizes and shapes in a branded morphing way. The image, the icon, the flashes of memories that help me remember who I am.





Graduate of Brooks Institute of Photography, Santa Barbara, CA. Los Angeles for 7 years, and presently living in Richmond, VA.

Bachelor of Fine Arts and Sciences, Brooks Institute of Photography 2006.

Glave Kocen Gallery (Hung Juried) Richmond, VA. 2019✖︎ Photo LA (Focus) Los Angeles, CA. 2019 ✖︎
bG Gallery (Stranger than Fiction) Santa Monica, CA 2018 ✖︎
Cape Cod Cultural Center (ELEMENTS|WATER) Cape Cod, MA 2017 ✖︎
I Love LA Gallery(25 Strangers) ▶︎Los Angeles, CA 2016//
Saatchi Art(Cross Currents) ▶︎Los Angeles. 2016//
Aquarium of the Pacific - "Night Dive" Long Beach, CA. 2015.
Black Box Gallery "Luminous Light and Space" Portland, Oregon. 2015.
Saatchi Art + Jealous Curator "California Dreaming." Los Angeles, CA. 2015.
Hive Gallery "My LA." Los Angeles, CA. 2015.
American Photographic Arts "Off the Clock" Los Angeles, CA. 2014.