AnnieLaurie Erickson is an artist and educator whose work engages with social and environmental research topics through experimental lens-based practices. She holds the Ellsworth Woodward Professorship in Studio Art and serves as Associate Professor and Head of the Photography Area in the Newcomb Art Department at Tulane University in New Orleans.

Erickson’s work has been exhibited widely, including Higher Pictures (NYC), Goethe-Institut (Washington, DC), Newspace Center for Photography (Portland, OR), Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (NYC), Boston Center for the Arts, and CentrePasquArt (Bienne, Switzerland). Notable press includes Art in America, Huffington Post, Oxford American, Washington Post, Paper Magazine, Afterimage, Terremoto, and Foam Magazine. Erickson’s practice has been supported through residencies and grants from Yaddo, A Studio in the Woods, the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, the Society for Photographic Education, Peripheral Vision, and the Joan Mitchell Center, among others. She has been a part of the Antenna Collective since 2015 and currently serves as a board member for the Newcomb Art Museum, as well as Antenna.

 

Erickson grew up in a commune in Lincoln, Nebraska, and went on to receive her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.