Artist Biography
Delving into New Jersey based artist Erik Minter’s background, it quickly becomes evident Minter is an innate creator. As a child, the artists first exposure to the creative arts came in the form of model making (trains, planes, automobiles), even leading to his studying architectural principles.
Minter credits his grandfather as being instrumenting in his move from model making to paints saying “I’ve been in love with tinkering, and modelmaking, spray painting, using knives, and masking shapes, it was always in my DNA from childhood, especially drawing from life. When watching my grandfather paint and him giving me a set of brushes and oils at a young age to play with, I immediately became hooked with the language of the medium of painting.”
Known for his figures and portraiture, Minter’s artworks are described as vibrant colour combinations with gradients that weave between graphical shapes and fluid-like splashes. Combining abstraction with surreal figuration, Minter seeks to capture the emotion of experiences, either lived or dreamed, and to express his feelings and curiosity about life.
The artist’s current creative pursuits see his expressionistic figurations morph into clean abstractions, introducing more calculated extruded (tubular) beams of colour. Inarguably, Minter’s oeuvre is a spectrum of expression and masterful manipulation of various modes and mediums as the artist expands his visual language.
Minter has exhibited all over the world including London, Australia, Brussels, France, Norway, Indonesia and the US.
Education
1997-2000 “Bachelor of Fine Arts” Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, US
1996 “Life Study Courses” Corcoran Museum, Washington DC, US
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Dopamine, Mazel Galerie, Brussels, BE.
2021 Where Were You When…, Daniel Raphael Gallery, London, UK.
Exhibitions
2023 A[Bs]Ttraction, Group Show, Mazel Galerie, Brussels, BE.
2023 In Between, Group Show, Jean Jacob Gallery, New Canaan, Connecticut US
2022 Christmas Exhibition, Group Show, Fineart Oslo, Norway
2022 ST.Art, Art Fair Strasbourg, France, with Mazel Galerie
2022 Art Moments Jakarta, All About Art Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia.
2022 REVVV Group Show, All About Art Gallery, Singapore
2022 Articulture Group Show, White Point Gallery, New Jersey, US
2021 Luxembourg Art Week | Art Fair. Mazel Galerie, BR
2021 Hello I Love You, Group Online Exhibition. Curated by Jacob Johnson.
2021 Collective Synergy, A Screaming Art Group Online Exhibition. Curated by Sergio Gomez.
2021 Portraits & Consensus Works, 19 Karen Gallery, Australia
2021 “Where Were You When” Daniel Rapheal Gallery, London UK
2020 “Pour Fello” AR Edition of 50 collab with UniqueBoard, Brooklyn, New York, US
2020 “Booth Project for Paris” Mazel Galerie, Brussels, Belgium
2020 “DIALOGS2019” Atelier97 Arte Contemporanea – Las Spazio Espositivo, La Spezia, Italy
2020 “When Spiders Unite They Can Tie Down A Lion” Daniel Raphael Gallery, London, UK
2020 “Summer Gathering” GR Gallery, New York, US
2020 “Boundless Boundaries” StolenSpace Gallery, London, UK
2020 “Grounded” Daniel Raphael Gallery via Artsy, London, UK
2020 “Summer Selection 2020” Rosenbaum Contemporary Gallery, Florida, US
2020 “One” PXP Contemporary, US
2020 Hospice Charity collaboration with Sothebys and Rotary International, Vienna, Austria
2020 Center of Contemporary Artists, Rome, Italy
2020 “35×35 Art Project” Copelouzos Family Art Museum, Athens, Greece
2020 “GOArt” Google NYC, New York, US
2020 Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary Art Fair, Florida, US
2019 Limited Edition Print Release, Davis Editions (online)
2019 “Force and Phenomenon” Rosenbaum Contemporary Acquisition, Florida, US
2009 “Art Walk” Hotel Indigo, New York, US
2009 “Island Heat”, AIDS Family Services, New York, US
2008 “Quetzalcoatl Countdown” 4444 Main Street, Buffalo, New York, US
2008 “Karma Cab Boa” Hallwalls Members Exhibition, Buffalo, New York, US
2006 “Feminine Mystique” KFMK Gallery, New York, US
2003 “Chashama Benefit Show”Safe Horizon, New York, US
2003 “World Trade Center Memorial Competition” Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, New York, US
2000 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, US
2000 “I.P.S” Circus” Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, US
1999 “Works on Paper” Augusta Savage Gallery UMASS, Massachusetts, US
Publications
2021 “Erik Minter a multi-disciplinary artist from New Jersey” The Industry
2020 “Entrevista a Erik Minter” Plataforma de Arte Contemporáneo
2020 “15 Art Accounts You Must Take On Instagram” ELLE Belgium
2020 “Creative Conviction” Create Magazine (issue No. 21)
2020 “Erik Minter And The Emotion Of An Experience In Vibrant Colors” Visual Atelier 8
2020 “Don’t pass the Corona. A personal perspective during the pandemic” Wall Street International Magazine
2020 “Hohe Luft” German philosophy magazine (no.4)
2019 “Erik Minter // globs” GenSociety
2019 Booooooom Artist Spotlight
2019 Canyon Voice Literary & Art Magazine, Arizona State University( issue 19)
Awards
2000 “Circle Award” Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, US
1999 “1st in show” Centennial NYC Cityscape Competition, New York, US
1997 National Talent Search Award, US
1997 “Materials Awards” MAFF Maryland Artists Equity Foundation, Maryland, US
