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Erika Choe, Horns of a Broken Back, 2025: brown glazed shell-like form with white ridged ribs, attached to a long, pale yellow translucent handle, on a white background.
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International Residency

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Residency Full Fellowship

Erika Choe

United States

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Season II, 2026

Image: Erika Choe, 'Horns of a Broken Back', 2025.

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Erika Choe, I spit myself out, 2026. Photographed by Max Yawney. Image description: A steel bar on a white wall suspends two thin cords to a leaning metal piece, from which a thick cream rope coils across the gray floor.
Erika Choe, 'Breast, guts, and slippery bone', 2025, Mixed-media Sculpture Nylon, Plaster, rope, ballon, wooden ski, 47x36x3". Image description: A wooden ski on a white wall, bound with knotted rope to two tan rounded forms, with a stretched nylon tube rising from its end.
Erika Choe, 'Dead Weight between my Legs', 2025, Mixed-media Sculpture, Nylon, clay, metal structure, bicycle wheel, plaster, latex, 48x30x3". Image description: A wall-hung sculpture of a pale pink, stretched torso-like form with long hanging legs that frames a black bicycle wheel.
Erika Choe, 'straight from my throat, my pancreas, my uterus', 2025, Mixed-media Sculpture, Resin, latex, nylon, metal, ceramic, wire, recycled paper, 66x25x25". Image description: A metal stand with a tall pole from which a long, skin-toned nylon form hangs to a lumpy mass, with a glossy orange bulb resting on the floor.
Erika Choe, 'womb', 2025, 2-channel Video-based performance, 19.21 mins. Image description: A blurred video still of a nude figure seated before a crumpled plastic backdrop, their face obscured by motion.
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Erika Choe creates abstracted portraits of bodies reconciling with weighted trauma through sculpture, performance, video, and installation.

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Erika Choe is a conceptual artist working across sculpture, performance, video, and installation. She holds an MFA from School of Visual Arts and a BA with highest honors from University of Virginia. She has received the NARS Foundation Full US Fellowship 2026, James Bernard Haggarty Scholarship Award by NYC Crit Club ‘25, Artist Sculpture Award by Zola ’25, Ceramics Residency by NYCxDESIGN Festival ‘24, and the Ruth Caplin Dance Award for Artistic Excellence ’15. Erika performed at renowned venues like The Shed NY, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), The Fridge Art Gallery NY, and Schrittmaacher Festival in Germany, performing for international choreographers like Akram Khan, Alejandro Cerrudo, and Yin Yue.

Erika Choe is a Brooklyn-based artist working across sculpture, performance, video, and installation. She creates abstracted portraits of bodies as porous carrier bags caught in mid-movement, interpreting inherited trauma as weight that emerges on and in the body. Her previous dance career and her MFA in design from School of Visual Arts informs her practice today.

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Exhibitions

Ailyn Lee, Counting the Wings, 2026: an open wooden box holding a small dresser with a pink fleshy figure draped over it, an oval pink form above, and a key hanging below.
International Residency Exhibition

Toward a Sentence

June 5, 2026

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June 16, 2026

Colby Lamson-Gordon, I can see the moon, and sometimes I wonder, 2025: a video still of a red mouth-like form over a misty landscape of mountains, captioned I would send my DNA.
NARS Artists Present: An Offering for the Public

Screening: Erika Choe and Colby Lamson-Gordon

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June 6, 2026