Bio and Resume

Erin Haldane is a mixed-media artist working primarily within watercolor illustration, block printing, and oil painting nature morte. She’s inspired by her love of animals, domestic spaces, symbolism and archetypes, as well as the natural world and seeks to express the subtle magic of the everyday within each of her pieces. She finds that her dreams and inner world is best expressed through her fantastical illustrations and prints and that her observation, appreciation, and meditation of the beauty of the physical world around her is best manifested through oil paint and pencil in her larger works.

Erin is native Alaskan, Tsimshian and was born in and spent most of her childhood in Anchorage, Alaska. She moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2000 and received her BFA from Santa Fe University of Art and Design in 2014. She has maintained a rigorous studio practice and her work has been shown both internationally and locally; at the Universidad Viña del Mar in Chile, in both Albuquerque and Santa Fe [New Mexico], multiple local venues in Portland and Eugene [Oregon], and was represented from 2018-2021 by Bainbridge Arts and Crafts in Bainbridge, Washington. She currently works for the non-profit arts and community organization, Vital Spaces in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Erin Haldane

www.erinhaldane.com

erin.k.haldane@gmail.com

Instagram: @erinhaldane1


Education

Santa Fe University of Art and Design Santa Fe, NM

BFA in visual arts: May, 2014 Summa Cum Laude

President’s List, Awarded Best Studio Practice, Spring 2013

Central New Mexico Community College Albuquerque, NM

Coursework in Fine Arts: January, 2011 to August, 2012


Collaborative and Group Exhibitions

2023 Amalgamation: Behind The Studio Door, Vital Spaces Gallery -

Santa Fe, NM

2020 How to Make a Better Painting, Student Juried Show, Fields Center

for the Visual Arts - Portland, OR

2018 Debutantes, Bainbridge Art Project - Bainbridge, WA

New Projects display, Bainbridge Art Project - Bainbridge, WA

2016 Sin is So In, Pop-up private house show - Eugene, OR

2015 North to the Future, Alaska Humanities Forum - Anchorage, AK

2014 Cohesion, Fine Arts Gallery at SFUAD - Santa Fe, NM

2013 Covered Walls, Critical Space Gallery - Santa Fe, NM

Range, Universidad Vina del Mar - Vina del Mar, Chile

Rare Earth, Red Dot Gallery - Santa Fe, NM

Coffee + Nicotine, Critical Space Gallery – Santa Fe, NM

Santa Monica Hostel Collective, Critical Space Gallery – Santa Fe,

NM

2012 Materialize, SFUAD Fine Arts Center – Santa Fe, NM

hARvesT, SFUAD Fine Arts Gallery – Santa Fe, NM

2007 Metro Youth Art Show, Fine Arts Gallery at Expo New Mexico -

Albuquerque, NM

Solo Exhibitions

2019 [Untitled], Townshend’s Tea Company Mississippi - Portland, OR

[Untitled], Townshend’s Tea Company Division - Portland, OR

2018 Anecdotes of the Animate and Inanimate, Townshend’s Tea Alberta - Portland, OR

Erin Haldane, Vita Cafe - Portland, OR  

Erin Haldane, Dragonfly Coffee House - Portland, OR

2017 Erin Haldane, PDX Contemporary Window Project - Portland, OR

2016 Fabrications, Ninkasi Brewery - Eugene, OR

Dream Narratives, Townshend's Tea, - Eugene, OR

Woolgathering: Narratives of a Daydreamer, Wandering Goat Coffee Co. - Eugene, OR

2015 [Untitled], Kaladi Brothers Coffee - Anchorage, AK

Gallery Representation

2018 - 2021 Bainbridge Arts & Crafts, Bainbridge, WA

Collections/Commissions

2017 Modera Belmont permanent collection, Art direction by Heidi McBride, Portland, OR

Work Experience

2022-Present Vendor at Railyard Artisan Market, Santa Fe, NM

2022-Present Employee at Vital Spaces, Non-profit Arts Organization, Santa Fe, NM

2020 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Portland State University, Portland, OR

2017-2019 Private tutoring/teaching of art skills and techniques, home studio, Portland, OR

2013-2014 Intern/Illustrator, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM

Artist Assistant for Susan York, Santa Fe, NM

Intern/Artist Assistant for Harmony Hammond, Galesteo, NM