STATEMENT

My practice is rooted in sustained inquiry, research-based methodologies, and deep engagement with place. I work across installation, socially engaged projects, and material exploration to examine how social, cultural, and environmental histories are embedded in specific sites, focusing on landscapes shaped by extraction, industry, and community resilience. Research, listening, and relationship-building are integral components, shaping both form and content. When possible, I employ and alter found, vintage, and discarded objects to reframe long-held perspectives. I manipulate, layer, mask, repeat, omit, shift scale, transforming the familiar into something evocative, uncanny, revealing.

BIOGRAPHY

Erinn Kathryn is an interdisciplinary artist who works in sculpture, mixed media, painting, and installation. Notable solo/ feature exhibitions include: Pacific Northwest College of Art (Portland, OR 2012), Alaska House Art Gallery (Fairbanks, AK, 2013), Multnomah Arts Center (Portland, OR 2014), Bison Gallery @ Oregon College of Art and Craft (Portland, OR, 2016), and Portland Community College (2021/3).

Erinn has participated in various nationally recognized artist residencies in Alaska, Vermont, Oregon, Washington, and the American Southwest.  She has been awarded numerous grants from the Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC, Portland, OR) and Oregon Arts Commission for her sculpture/installation projects, including an honorarium for a site-specific installation in 2015, and Ford Family Foundation funding support in 2024.

Erinn’s work is part of the permanent collections of Portland Metro, the Zymoglyphic Museum, the J. Michael Carroll Cancer Center at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital and the Museum of the North, University of Alaska Fairbanks. Her constructed poetry chapbook, In the Frail, was released in 2024 by Buckman Journal. Her poems have been featured in Subjectiv Journal (Spring 2022), Issue 07 from Pile Press, & Common Ground from Borderline Press.

Erinn is an artist member of Carnation Contemporary and Borderline Art Salon, both in Portland. She studied printmaking, dance, and psychology at Penn State University and received her M.A.T. from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.