Luke Erickson

My photographs are in many museum collections including: Weisman Art Museum, Tweed Museum of Art, Minnesota Historical Society, Fisher Art Museum, University of Southern California, Laguna Art Museum, The Autry Museum, Peppers Art Gallery, University of Redlands, and Cornell Museum of Fine Arts.

My photographs explore ideas of national and personal identity, social class, dreams, and desire, through the examination of the social landscape.

This landscape includes natural and manufactured environments, monuments, routes, destinations, and fences and borders both real and imagined.

My medium is photography, which captures nuances of light, however, I reveal the other elements as well, air, and the reflections and shadows of the water too.

My photographs serve as a meditation on the mythology of the American West, the effects of suburban expansion on the American Dream, and the exploitation of natural resources including air and water.

I was born in Minneapolis and grew up in St. Cloud, Minnesota, midwestern cities and towns located on the upper Mississippi River. I was eager to see more of the west and attended the University of Redlands, a liberal arts college in Southern California. There, at the edge of the deser...

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS-CHICAGO, Chicago, Illinois

Master of Arts, Art History

UNIVERSITY OR REDLANDS, Redlands, California

Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Studio Art.

Solo Exhibitions
Confluence, Paramount Center for the Arts, Feb. 7-March 13, 2018 Mill City Museum, May 11-Sept. 24, 2017
Minnesota Museum of Marine Art, Winona, Jan. 13-Apr. 16, 2017 St. Peter Art Center, Feb. 5-Mar. 6, 2016
Anoka-Ramsey Community College, Nov. 7-Dec. 7, 2015
Flux, Wallspace Gallery, Santa Barbara, Feb. 5-Mar. 26, 2016 Capturing the L. A. River, 410 Boyd Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2000

Group Exhibitions
Space: Time and Place, Tweed Art Museum of Art, Duluth, MN, Feb. 19- Sept. 22, 2019 Biennial 11, Concordia Art Center, St. Paul, MN, 2010
Silver River, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN, Aug. 13, 2016-Feb. 12, 2017
Art on Air, Instinct Art Gallery, Minneapolis, 2015
Arrowhead Biennial, Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, MN, Dec. 10, 2012-2013 Concordia St. Paul Biennial 7, Concordia Art Center, St. Paul, MN, 2010
The Populated Landscape, Flanders Art, Mpls. MN, 2008
2005 National Open Exhibition, Long Beach Arts Center, CA, 2005
Americas 2000 Exhibition, Northern Art Center, Minot, ND
2005 National Juried Exhibition, Studio 2 Gallery, Austin, TX, 2004
The American River, National Juried Exhibition, May 17, 2002-2003
55th Arrowhead Biennial, Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, MN, 2002-2003 Community Arts Par...