Born 1977, lives and works
in Brooklyn.
Education
2004-2006 MFA in Photography, Video, & Related Media, School of Visual Arts,
New York, NY
1995-1999 BFA in Photography, Hartford Art School, University
of Hartford, Bloomfield, CT
1998 Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Grants and Residencies
2011 Artist in residence with iaab/International Exchange and Studio Program Basel, Switzerland
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions and Events
2011 Troubadour, Freight + Volume, New York, NY
2011 Erica Magrey: This is Not a Myth, Kaskadenkondensator, Basel, Switzerland
2009 Shana
Moulton and Erica Magrey, Starlight Cinema, Madison, WI (performance
and screening)
2007 Troubadour,
Project Room at Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, FL
2005 You’ve Got a Friend: Generica Collaborations and Solo Works by Jennifer
Sullivan and Erica Magrey, Sixtyseven, New York, NY
Selected Exhibitions, Screenings, and Performances
2011
Protest Geometry, FLOAT, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY, curated by Cleopatra's
(performance)
Louis V. E.S.P. Taping, Episodes 8-10, The Schoolhouse, Brooklyn, NY
(performance)
Louis V, E.S.P. Presents ESP TV at Silvershed, New York, NY
(screening)
Pre-opening, Schwarzwaldallee NT, Basel, Swizterland
(screening/installation)
Traces from iaab, dock, Basel, Swizterland
(group show and artist talk)
Groupshow, iaab-Projektraum Dreispitz, Basel, Switzerland
Do You Do This On Your Couch? Smallspace, Milwaukee, WI, curated by Sara Caron (screening)
Cover Version LP,
BAM, Brooklyn, NY , curated by Timothy Hull (group show)
Self-Portrait as Rock Star, Current Gallery, Baltimore, MD, curated by Gary Kachadourian (group show)
E.S.P. TV, Louis V, E.S.P., Brooklyn NY, curated by Scott Kiernan (screening/public access broadcast)
100
Records, Comfortable on a Tightrope, Manchester, UK,
curated by Sonny Smith (group show)
2010
Seven
Easy Steps: Scientific Discoveries, Horton Gallery, New York, NY
(screening)
The
Lounge , No Commercial Value, curated by Cat Mallone and Natasha
Chuk (online screening)
100
Records, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA, OK Mountain, Austin, TX,
and Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn, curated by Sonny Smith (group show)
Body Blend by AUNTS, Dixon Place, New York, NY (solo and collaborative
performance, costume)
Rock Dreams: Artist-Made Songs, INDEX Art Center, Newark, NY
(group show and performance)
2009
Nancy
Garcia/Chase Granoff, The Kitchen, New York, NY (Kate Bush Dance
Troupe performance and costume design)
Seven
Easy Steps: Social Improvement, Horton & Liu, New York, NY, curated
by Amanda Schmitt (screening)
Fall Collection, Art Book Fair, PS1, Queens, NY (costume design)
Goddess
Headdress Workshop, Heist Gallery, New York, NY (collaboration with
Jennifer Sullivan)
Kate Bush Dance Troupe, 179 Canal, New York, NY (collaborative performance)
Recession Runway , NADA Party at Bumble and Bumble, New York,
NY, curated by Jennifer Sullivan (costume design and performance)
All Girls Music Night, Club Europa, Brooklyn, NY (performance
and screening)
2008
Whoop Dee Doo at Deitch Projects Holiday Party,Santos Party House,
New York, NY (performance)
Avatar Atavistic, Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NY (group show)
Vaudeville Park Fundraiser, Brooklyn, NY (collaborative performance)
Kate Bush Dance Troupe, New York, NY (collaborative performance)
Nakedly, Monkeytown, New York, NY, curated by Jennifer Sullivan
(screening)
WJEN Radio Presents: It’s a Process Live!, Cakeshop, New
York, NY, hosted by Jennifer Sullivan (performance)
Performance Night at A.I.R., A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY, curated
by Emily Harris (performance)
Performance
Laboratory, Broadway 1602, New York, NY, curated by Shana Moulton
(performance)
Metalmags Live!, with Anna Oxygen, Katie Eastburn, Vivian Girls,
& the Coathangers, Death by Audio, Brooklyn, NY (performance)
2007
Videogarden,
Bard-ICP MFA Studios, Queens, NY (group show)
Metalmags Live! The Pawn Shop, Miami, FL (performance)
Die Young Stay Pretty, curated by Jose Carlos Diaz, Diana Lowenstein
Fine Arts, Miami, FL (group show)
Metalmags Live! @ The French Are Drumming, Bard-ICP MFA Studios,
Queens, NY (performance)
A Kind of Love, Ai Gallery, Chicago, IL (group show)
Neurotic
Naturalism, Monkeytown, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Jennifer Sullivan
(screening)
Chasing Cool, Bowery Poetry Club, New York, NY, curated by David
and Adira Amram (screening)
2006
Chic-A-Go-Go
Halloween Special, CAN-TV Studios, Chicago, IL (performance)
SVA Photography, Video, and Related Media MFA Screening, Florence
Gould Hall, New York, NY
The Early Work, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY (MFA degree
show)
Cheap Shots: Low Budget Ladies Make You Laugh, Heathers, New
York, NY, curated by Sophia Peer (screening)
2005
Sympathetic
Magic, Planaria Gallery, New York, NY (group show and performance)
Primed: MFA Thesis Show, Parsons School of Design, New York,
NY (group show)
Generica Live!, Def, Dum, and Hi Tour w/Airbrains, Juiceboxx,
and Potato, Glass House Gallery, Brooklyn, NY and Flywheel, Easthampton,
MA (performances)
2004
The
Infinite Fill Show, Foxy Productions, New York, NY (group show)
La Superette, The Tank Annex, New York, NY (group show and performance)
Desert Swap Meet, High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree, CA (group
show)
Your Heart is No Match for My Love, Soap Factory, Minneapolis,
MN (group show)
Spring Student Salon, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY (screening)
2003
Summer
Salon, Dumba Art Collective, Brooklyn, NY (group show)
2001
WAMP
Group Show, The Cork Factory, Brooklyn, NY
Kristin, Miss Porter’s School, Farmington, CT (solo show
and guest speaker)
1999
Circles
Group Exhibition, Artspace, Hartford, CT
Group Show, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
1998
Photography
Group Show, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Visiting
Artist
2010 Teaching Artists' Union, Brooklyn, NY
2007 The Churchill School, New York, NY
2006 Betsy Ross Arts Magnet School, New Haven, CT
2001 Miss Porter’s School, Farmington, CT
Bibliography
2011 Jorg, Andrina, Erica Magrey: In Search of the Golden Spandex, Kunstbulletin, June
Issue [English translation]
2010 Lee, Sasha M. (ed.), Beautiful/Decay Book 3: The Underdogs, Spring
Issue
2009 Kourlas,
Gia, "Looking Back, and Taking It Forward," The New
York Times, Nov 6, 2009
2009Lyons, Matthew, "Interview with Kate Bush Dance
Troupe," The Art of Making Dances, Nov 2009
2009 Photographs and headdress plublished in Threads Magazine,
Issue #1, Sept 2009
2009 Cook, Mary, "Haberdashery, Anyone?" Art
21 blog, June 5 2009
2008 Wilson, Michael, "Secret Santos," Artforum.com, Dec 2008
2008 Capper, Beth, "The Void," Plan B Magazine,
July 2008
2005 Smith, Roberta, “Sympathetic Magic,” The New
York Times, March 11, 2005
2004 Drawings published in Swingset Magazine, Issue #5
2003 Drawings published in Swingset Magazine, Issue #4
2003 Photographs published in Swingset Magazine, Issue
#3
Writing
2005 “Open Mike,” Interview With Michael Smith, Swingset
Magazine, Issue #7
2004 “Blessing in Disguise,” Interview with
Mingering Mike, Swingset Magazine, Issue #5
2002 “Erica Magrey Introduces Sam Brown of Explodingdog.com,”
Swingset Magazine, Issue #2