Erika Rios Hickle (born 1985, San Diego, CA) is an artist based in Los Angeles, CA. Rios Hickle’s practice spans painting, textile, photography, and installation, and explores themes of mythologies, spiritualism, and the body. Her work examines self portraiture and the quotidian as well as mythic archetypes ranging from saints, vampires, and the likes, to further explore the feminine. Most recently, she has exhibited a two part solo exhibition, spanning between two locations, Duplex, NYC and Apartment 13, Providence, mimicking sites of pilgrimage in which images of the artist’s and Saint’s disjointed body parts transform into holy relics.
She has shown at Bureau, Catbox Contemporary, American Medium, 321 Gallery, Kimberly Klark and Geary in New York; Resort in Baltimore, DarkZone in NJ and Fall River Contemporary Museum of Art, MA. She received her BFA from California State University, Long Beach in 2008 and her MFA from Rutgers University in 2012. She is currently a Part-Time Lecturer at California State University, Long Beach.
erika.rios.hickle@gmail.com
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2023
I Would Cease to Be, II, Apartment 13, Providence, RI (solo)
I Would Cease to Be, I, Duplex, New York, NY (solo)
2022
New York Grief (the dance rats), Catbox Contemporary, Queens, NY (solo)
2021
burden, darkZone, curated by Philip Hinge, New Jersey
Apt 13’s a New Museum’s Triennial, curated by Apartment 13, Fall River MoCA, Fall River, MA
SURVEY, Bureau, curated by FR MoCA, Brittni Harvey and Harry Gould Harvey, New York, NY
2019
How to Install a City Bank into an Old Brick Building, Apartment 13 Gallery, Providence, RI
Myrhh, Underground Flower, Malaysia
If These Walls Could Talk, DarkZone, curated by Philip Hinge, New Jersey
Rhythm Garden, Geary Contemporary, curated by Alan Prazniak, New York, NY
2018
Sinkhole Project, curated by Joe Speier, Baltimore, MD
The Changes Wrought, American Medium, New York, NY
Pure Raw, Resort, Baltimore, MD
After the rain, curated by Garrett Lockhart, Montreal, Canada COLLECT, Soloway, Brooklyn, NY
2017
BOBO presents, at Honey’s, Brooklyn, NY
Thou Shall Not Have Any God Before Thyself, Kimberly Klark Queens, NY
2016
Mary, B-U-G, curated by Quintessa Matranga, Brooklyn, NY
11 Meadow, curated by AutoBody, Brookhaven, Long Island, NY
A Stolen Painting Found By A Tree, Kodomo at Rope, Baltimore, MD
2015
Group Show, Dress Shop Gallery, Rios & Fields, collaboration with Raque Ford, Brooklyn, NY
Material Art Fair, 321 Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
2014
Absolutely Yours, 321 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Inaugural, Rios and Fields, collaboration with Raque Ford, 321 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY