Work
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.
AnnieLaurie (also goes by A-L) 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.
BIO
2007-2009
Master of Fine Arts, Photography (May 2009), School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2002-2005
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Photography (May 2005), Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2004
Study abroad in Studio Art, Ludwig Foundation, Havana, Cuba
2003
Study abroad in Photography, SPEOS Photographic Institute, Paris France
2000-2002
Undergraduate studies in Education and Studio Art, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR
EDUCATION
2026
Upcoming solo exhibition, Antenna, New Orleans, LA
2025
Louisiana Fine Arts Showcase, SLU Contemporary Art Gallery, Hammond, LA
2024
In the Shadow of the Moon, curated by Christian Cutler, Windgate Museum of Art, Conway, AR
2024
30°/–90°, curated by Angel Perdomo, DiQuan Forcell, and Ryan Leitner, Antenna, New Orleans, LA
2023
Insurgent Ecologies: Resisting Watersheds of Conquest, Enslavement, and Extraction Along the Mississippi River, curated by Imani Jacqueline Brown and Shana M. griffin, Antenna and 3OneOne6 Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2023
Insurgent Ecologies: Hotter than July, curated by Tia-Simone Gardner, Law Warschaw Museum, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN
2022
This is Now, curated by Vladimir Mejia, ICOSA, Austin, TX
2022
SUGAR, Prospect.5 exhibition curated by Denise Frasier and Shana M. griffin, New Orleans, LA
2021
Overflow: The Mississippi in every state imaginable, Q.arma Gallery, Minneapolis, MN and Watershed Art and Ecology + Co-Prosperity, Chicago, IL
2020
Make America What America Must Become, curated by Katrina Neumann, George Scheer, and Toccarra A.H. Thomas, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
2020
View Find 9, curated by Maggie Flanigan, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
2019
Art of the City: Post Modern to Post Katrina, curated by Jan Gilbert, The Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans, LA
2018
Into the Digital Mesh, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX (solo)
2018
southXeast: Contemporary Southeastern Art triennial, curated by W. Rod Faulds and Cynthia Stucki, Ritter Art Gallery and Schmidt Center Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
2018
And light followed the flight of sound, curated by Eliot Dudik, Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA
2018
Slow Light, Jean Lafitte National Historical French Quarter Center, New Orleans, LA (solo)
2017
Photographic Center Northwest’s Annual Photography Exhibition, juried by Sandra Phillips, Curator Emeritus SF MOMA, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
2017
New Faces, Different Places, curated by Nancy Zastudil, Central Features, Albuquerque, NM
2017
Unseen, Providence Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI
2017
Punctum, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2017
Data Shadows v3, Santa Clara University, Silicon Valley, CA (solo)
2016
“A Building with a View”: Experiments in Anarchitecture, curated by Andrea Andersson, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
2016
AnnieLaurie Erickson & Jessica Hans, curated by Adam Crosson and Gracelee Lawrence, Pig & Pony Gallery, Austin, TX
2016
American Beauty, curated by Mary Beyt and Brian Guidry, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA
2016
Louisiana Biennial, curated by Don Marshall, New Orleans Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
2016
The 25th International Competition, juried by Rixon Reed, Museum of the Big Bend, Alpine, TX; Martin Museum of Art, Waco, TX; Options Gallery, Odessa College, Odessa, TX; Center for Contemporary Arts, Abilene, TX (traveling exhibition)
2016
American Twist, presented by the Sculptors Guild, Governors Island Art Fair, New York, NY
2016
Data Shadows v2, Box 13, Houston, TX (solo)
2015
Photography Sees the Surface, curated by Aspen Mays, Higher Pictures, New York, NY
2015
The Rising, curated by Richard McCabe, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
2015
Surveillance Blind, curated by Nate Larson, Goethe-Institut, Washington, DC
2015
Lorem Ipsum, curated by Danielle Avram, Benjamin Lima, and Cameron Shaw, Pollock Gallery, Dallas, TX
2015
Relative Humidity, curated by Robin Levy, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2015
Infringement, curated by Zachary Allen, Samsøñ Projects, Boston, MA
2015
Radical Color, curated by Jon Feinstein, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR
2015
Artifact, Alternatives Biennial juried by Judy Natal, Segfried Gallery, Ohio University, Athens, OH
2014
Distant Images, Local Positions, curated by Wafaa Bilaal, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
2014
The National: Best Contemporary Photography, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
2014
Imago Mundi: Reparation, curated by Diego Cortez, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
2014
Unbound3, curated by Gordon Stettinius, Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA
2014
Second Nature, curated by Barbara Archer, The Goat Farm Arts Center and Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2014
PhotoSpiva, curated by Dornith Doherty, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, MO
2014
Cardinal, curated by Rachel Reese, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2014
Data Shadows, Carroll Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA (solo)
2013
Archetype Drift, curated by Jason Lazarus, in conjunction with Filter Photo Festival, Johalla Projects, Chicago, IL
2013
Currents, juried by Gordon Stettinius, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
2013
Slow Light, Antenna, New Orleans, LA (solo)
2013
Residue, curated by Steve Holmes, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
2013
Définitions, curated by Virginia Otth, CentrePasquArt, Bienne, Switzerland
EXHIBITIONS
2025
Endnotes, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
2024
Tulane Research, Innovation, and Creativity Summit Photography Exhibition, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
2024
As we see it, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
2023
The Last Sweet Bite, Paper Machine, New Orleans, LA
2023
Insurgent Ecologies: Resisting Watersheds of Conquest, Enslavement, and Extraction Along the Mississippi River, exhibition organizer and curatorial support team, Antenna and 3OneOne6 Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2020
Duct tape over cracks in the sidewalk, became a virtual exhibition due to COVID-19
2018
All sorrows can be borne…, in conjunction with PhotoNOLA 2018, Antenna, New Orleans, LA
2015
Paper-thin, in conjunction with PhotoNOLA 2015, Antenna, New Orleans, LA
2013
PhotoBOMB, in conjunction with PhotoNOLA 2013, The Front, New Orleans, LA
2013
Collective Lens Reflex, Ten Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2009
Ship in a Bottle, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2021
Kristina Kay Robinson, “Justice Delayed: ‘Make America What America Must Become’ at the CAC New Orleans,” Exhibition Review, Art in America, April 20
2021
Nic Brierre Aziz, “Make America What America Must Become,” TERREMOTO, January 23
2019
Ann Hackett, “Documenting Environmental Racism in Flint and New Orleans,” Burnaway, November 24
2019
College Art Association Conversations Podcast, “Danielle Wyckoff and AnnieLaurie Erickson,” October 28
2019
John d’Addario, “At Newcomb, artists explore environmental disaster,” The New Orleans Advocate, October 8
2019
D. Eric Bookhardt, “Take a trip through New Orleans urban mileu from '70s through Katrina in ‘Art of the City,’” The Gambit, July 8
2019
DATA: BIG / -driven / Visualized, Richard Siegesmund (ed.), Northern Illinois University Press, DeKalb, IL
2018
Nic Brierre Aziz (ed.), “Onus,” Antenna::Signals, Issue 11, December 11
2018
And light followed the flight of sound, artist book, eds. Eliot Dudik and Jared Ragland; essay by Catherine Wilkins, November 1
2017
Georgia Erger (ed.), Peripheral Vision, Issue 7, Winter
2017
Mirjam Kooiman, “A Second Life,” Foam Magazine, Issue 46, Winter
2017
Matt Morgan, “Life in the Shadows,” Santa Clara Magazine, Fall
2017
Suzanne Volmer, “Looking Beyond and Reaching Out,” Artscope, Issue 68, May/June
2017
Florence Meunier, “Photographing the Unphotographable: Conversation with AnnieLaurie Erickson,” ÉCAL/University of Art and Design, Lausanne, Switzerland, Spring
2016
Robin Miller, “ACA exhibit ‘American Beauty’ explores America's political climate,” The New Orleans Advocate, November 7
2016
D. Eric Bookhardt, “Review: A Building with a View: Experiments in Architecture,” The Gambit, July 6
2016
Abby Sun, “Slow Light: AnnieLaurie Erickson,” Nat Brut Magazine, Issue 7, Summer
2016
Justin Nobel, “Everything Circles Back Around,” Virginia Quarterly Review, Volume 92, n. 2 , Spring
2016
Jeff Rich, “Constellations of Light: AnnieLaurie Erickson,” Oxford American, April 11
2015
Louis Jacobson, “At Goethe-Institut, Artistic Attempts to Pierce the Veil of Surveillance,” Washington City Paper, October 12
2015
Aline Smithson, “The Ogden Museum Presents The Rising,” Lenscratch, August 27
2015
Ryan Sparks, “’The Rising’ of New Orleans Post-Katrina, at the Ogden Museum,” BurnAway, August 14
2015
Loring Knoblauch, “Photography Sees the Surface at Higher Pictures,” Collector Daily, July 21
2015
Marian S. McLellan, “Second Line of the Crescent Moon,” New Orleans Art Review, Spring
2015
John d’Addario, “Photos in ‘Rising’ challenge assumptions about Katrina’s impact,” The New Orleans Advocate, June 17
2015
Richard McCabe, “The Rising,” Louisiana Cultural Vistas Magazine, Summer
2015
Carson Sanders (ed.), “From Here On,” Aint-Bad Magazine, Issue 9, March 1
2015
Surveillance Blind, essays by Nate Larson and Michael Pauen, Goethe Institut, Washington D.C., September 17
2015
Mark Jenkins, “Big Brother Is Watching,” Exhibition Review, Washington Post, November 21
2015
Cameron Shaw, “Ten Years After Katrina, New Orleans Museums Reckon with Recovery,” The New York Times, August 19
2015
Tori Bush, “Three Katrinas,” Daily Serving, August 15
2015
The Rising, exhibition highlighted on National Public Radio, “All Things Considered,” August 9
2015
Vince Aletti, “Goings on About Town: Photography Sees the Surface,” The New Yorker, August, 3
2015
D. Eric Bookhardt, “Review: The Rising: Photography in Post-Katrina New Orleans,” The Gambit, July 6
2015
Cate McQuaid, "Critic's Pick: Infringement," Exhibition Review, The Boston Globe, May 28
2015
Maddie Crum, “Meet the Contemporary Photographers Experimenting with Radical Color,” The Huffington Post, May 15
2015
Jon Feinstein, “Eerie Oil Refinery Afterimages by AnnieLaurie Erickson,” Humble Arts Foundation, April 15
2014
Cover Artist, The McNeese Review, Volume 52
2014
Reparation, essays by Luciano Benetton, Diego Cortez, and Miranda Lash, Imago Mundi, Fabrica, Treviso, Italy
2014
Blue Mitchell and Katherine Ware (eds.), “The Matter of Light,” Diffusion: Unconventional Photography Annual, vol. VI, One Twelve Publishing, October 2
2014
Tori Bush, “AnnieLaurie Erickson: Data Shadows at Carroll Gallery,” Daily Serving, September 29
2014
D. Eric Bookhardt, “Data Shadows, photographs by AnnieLaurie Erickson,” The Gambit, September 20
2014
Jerry Cullum, “‘Second Nature’ thoughtful and visually stunning group show,” ArtsATL, May 12
2014
Sabrina DeTurk, “Distant Images, Local Positions,” Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, Volume 41, Number 5, March/April
2013
John d’Addario, “Photo images in ‘Currents 2013’ transcend their subjects,” The New Orleans Advocate, December 28
2013
Ryan Sparks, “Afterimage Camera Captures Refineries As Beautiful, Forbidden Cities,” Southern Glossary, December 11
2013
Osvaldo Pontón (ed.), “Future Dinosaur,” Scrapped Magazine, Issue 2, August 28
2013
D. Eric Bookhardt, “Slow Light, photographs by AnnieLaurie Erickson,” The Gambit, July 30
2013
Nathan C. Martin, “Moloch on the Banks: AnnieLaurie Erickson and After-Imaging,” Pelican Bomb, July 19
2013
Jill Frank, “Dodge and Burn: After Images by AnnieLaurie Erickson,” BurnAway, April 8
2013
Brooke Herbert Hayes, “Archetype Drift: New Methods of Photographic Making,” The Chicago Arts Archive, March 20
2013
James Elkins, What Photography Is, Routledge Press, April 8
BIBLIOGRAPHY / PRESS
2019-present
Board Member, Newcomb Art Museum
2015-present
Antenna Collective
2020-2025
Board of Directors, Antenna (Treasurer 2023; Vice Chair 2024)
2018-2020
Fossil Free Fest, Advisory Council and Educational Partner
2017-2019
Paper Machine, Studio Artist
2013-2015
Society for Photographic Education 2015 National Conference, Hosting Committee
2014
Burnaway + Pelican Bomb Critic-In-Residence Program
COMMUNITY WORK
2012–present
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, Newcomb Art Department
Ellsworth Woodward Professorship in Studio Art, 2023-present
Associate Chair, Head of Studio Art, 2021–2024
Associate Professor, Head of Photography, 2019–present (tenure received: May 2019)
Director of Studio Art Graduate Studies, 2014–2016; 2017–2020
Assistant Professor, Head of Photography, 2013–2019
Visiting Assistant Professor, Photography, 2012–2013
2014–2015
Photography in Mallorca, Winter Intensive in Mallorca, Spain
2010–2012
Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA, Photography and Video Department
Adjunct Faculty, Course Creator, Senior Thesis Advisor
2010–2012
Endicott College, Beverly, MA, Visual Communications Department
Adjunct Faculty, Course Creator, Senior Thesis Advisor
2010–2012
ArtScience Labs, Idea Translation Lab, Harvard University, Boston, MA
Instructor, Project Mentor
2009–2010
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Photography Department
Adjunct Faculty, Course Creator
2009–2010
Harold Washington College, Chicago, IL, Visual Arts Department
Adjunct Faculty, Course Creator
2007–2009
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Photography Department
Instructor of Record, Course Creator