Eric N. Mack (b. 1987, Columbia, MD) received his BFA from The Cooper Union, New York, NY and his MFA from Yale University, New Haven, CT. His work has been shown extensively internationally and has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions including NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL (2021); Scrap Metal Gallery, Toronto, Canada (2019); The Power Station, Dallas, TX (2019); Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY (2019); Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK (2018); BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (2017); Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (2017). Recent major group exhibitions include Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2019); Desert X, Coachella Valley, CA (2019); and Serpentine Gallery, London, UK (2019). Mack has recently completed a  residency at the American Academy in Rome, having been awarded the Philip Guston Rome Prize in 2021. He was the recipient of the inaugural BALTIC Artists’ Award (2017) and completed artist residencies at the Rauschenberg Residency, Captiva Island, FL and Delfina Foundation, London, UK. He has collaborated with designers Kiko Kostadinov and Grace Wales Bonner along with stylist Hayley Woolens and lives and works in New York.

Image: Eric N. Mack, Face of Spring Summer (FOSS), 2021. cotton, satin, silk, acetate, polyester, acrylic, orange peels, corks, plastic and bone buttons 82 x 218 x 25 in. Courtesy of the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Oriol Tarridas.