Education
2011 M.F.A., Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
2002 B.F.A., The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1994 B.A., The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
Selected Exhibitions
2017 Freakonature, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Witty and Urbane, Fellows of Contemporary Art Curator’s Lab Project, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Groundshifts, Groundspace Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Dialogues of Practice Part II, First Street Gallery Art Center, Claremont, CA
2013 Dialogues of Practice Part I, West Los Angeles College Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Portrait Antarctica, Autonomy Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012 The New COOL School, White Box Contemporary, San Diego, CA
2012 Fall Residency at Side Street Projects with Summercamp Project Project, Pasadena, CA
2012 Oasis, curated by Durden And Ray, Shangrila, Joshua Tree, CA
2012 In a Landscape Where Nothing Officially Exists, Unspace Ground at CAA, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Friday Night Lights & Sunday Afternoons, Summercamp Project Project, El Sereno, CA
2011 Realm of Realism, curated by Shane Guffogg, Platform LA, LA MART, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Boom, Southern California MFA Invitational Group Exhibition, LA MART, Los Angeles, CA
2011 MFA Thesis Exhibition, (Solo Exhibition) East Gallery, Claremont, CA
2011 Emergent 12, OBJCT Gallery, Claremont, CA
2010 The Leak of Contemporary Artists II, The dA Center for the Arts, Pomona, CA
2010 The Illusion of Separateness, Troubling Recognition, Chapman College, Orange, CA
2010 Spaces in Between, Claremont Graduate University Trans-disciplinary Conference Exhibition, Claremont, CA
2009 Exhibit A, Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
2008 Gathering, with Don Bachardy, Citibank Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Landscape at Risk, Contemporary Views of the West, Coconino Community College, Flagstaff, Arizona
2008 My Space, SCA Project Gallery, Pomona, CA
Awards
2012 New American Paintings Readers Choice Prize
2011 Juror’s Choice Award, Randi Hopkins, Associate Curator, The Institute of
Contemporary Art/Boston, for New American Paintings
2010 Albert B. Friedman Arts and Humanities Award, Claremont Graduate University,
Claremont, CA
2010-11 Claremont Graduate University Fellowship, Claremont, CA
2000-02 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Merit Scholarship, Chicago, IL
Bibliography
Payne, Erin. “My Love Letter to the Los Angeles River: An Artist Brings Angelenos One Step Closer to Their Beleaguered Concrete Ditch.” Zocalo Public Square, July 1, 2015.
Brian Fee. “Erin Payne: Winner of New American Painting’s Reader’s Choice!” New American Paintings. January 13, 2012.
Caldwell, Ellen. “Piles and Textiles: Studio Visit with Erin Payne.” New American Paintings. August 25, 2011.
Moore, Alex, and Smith, Emily, editors. “Erin Payne, Crepe Myrtle Project, Longing for Lagerstroemia.” Articulate. July, 2011
New American Paintings, Volume 92 (MFA edition, juror: Randi Hopkins, Associate Curator, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA), The Open Studios Press, April 2011
Payne, Erin B., "Erin Payne MFA Thesis Statement" (2011).CGU MFA Theses. Paper 6
Payne, Erin B. “The High Life”. Objective Affection, CGU Journal, June 2010
Andres, Jan Michelle. “Entanglement”. The CGU ZINE, April 9, 2010