Eric Pickersgill, Charlotte, NC. Born 1986, Homestead, FL.
Education
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Master of Fine Arts, 2015
Columbia College Chicago, Bachelor of Fine Arts Photography, 2011
Solo Exhibitions
2025
Removed, Rio Innovation Week, Maua Pier, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2024
Removed, Renewed, SoRA Sanctuary Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Removed, Compiler Pop-Up Series, Barcelona Edition, Nou-Studios, Barcelona, Spain
Removed, Compiler Pop-Up Series, Austin Edition, Women and Their Work, Austin, TX
Removed, Delta Airlines JFK T-4 Sky Club, John F. Kennedy International Airport, Queens, NY
2019
Removed, ART SOUTERRAIN, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Removed, Hillsboro Brookwood Library, Hillsboro, OR
Removed, Lookup Pop Up, Palette Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018
Removed, The World Economic Forum ASEAN Summit, Hanoi, Vietnam
2017
NoShow, The Mediatheque, Merignac Photographic Festival, Merignac, France
2016
Removed, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY
Removed, The Merchandise Revolt, Lianzhou Foto Festival, Lianzhou, China
2015
Constructing Archives, The Carrack, Durham, NC
Removed, MFA Thesis Solo Exhibition, John and June Allcott Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
Endec, Off the Radar, Golden Belt Studios, Durham, NC
Group Exhibitions
2025
Where did boredom go? Vogele Kultur Zentrum, Pfaffikon, Switzerland
A Group Exhibition, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY
2023
What's Up, Pop-Up? A Group Exhibition of RWFA Artists, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY
2021
Hello, Robot. Design between man and machine, Hyundai Motorstudio Busan, Busan, South Korea
Breaking News? How the smartphone changed journalism, The Media Majlis at Northwestern University, Qatar
Hello, Robot. Design between man and machine, Nouveau Musee Bienne, Neues Museum Biel, Biel, Switzerland
2020
Design for Change, MAK Design Lab, Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria
Americans Looking In, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
Athens Digital Arts Festival 16th edition, Technotribalism, Athens, Greece
Picture in Picture, Cassilhaus Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
2019
The Qualities of Light: The Story of a Pioneering New York City Photography Gallery, The Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
Hello, Robot. Design between man and machine, V&A Dundee, Dundee, Scotland
Hello, Robot. Design between man and machine, Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal
The Space Between, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
Time After Time, QUAID Gallery, Tampa, FL
Hello, Robot. Design between man and machine, San Telmo Museoa, San Sebastian, Guipuzcoa, Spain
New Blood: Recent Discoveries from the Cassilhaus Collection, Cassilhaus Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
Eyes on Main Street, Wilson, NC
New Blood: Recent Discoveries from the Cassilhaus Collection, Kontek, Durham, NC
2018
I to Eye, Together or Alone, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Diapositive, Cassilhaus Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
INTERFACE, NEO:gallery, Greater Manchester, UK
Hello, Robot. Design between man and machine, Gewerbemuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Zenith Nadir, Smart Series Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Eyes on Main Street, Wilson, NC
2017
Here I live, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Hello, Robot. Design between man and machine, traveling exhibition: The Design Museum Gent, Gent, Belgium; Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria; Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
As Entertaining As Possible, Testbed 2 Cultural Creative Park, Chongqing, China
The Photography Show at AIPAD, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY
2016
reset, Garis and Hahn, New York, NY
Actual Size: Exploring the Photographic Contact Print, Cassilhaus Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
Future Tense, 516ARTS, Albuquerque, NM
The Photography Show at AIPAD, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY
The Members Show, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
2015
PULSE Contemporary Art Fair Miami, Rick Wester Fine Art, Miami, FL
EUREKA!, John and June Allcott Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
BEYOND CAMERAS, Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill, NC
Neo-Pre-Post-Contra-Para-Anti-Hyper-Pro-Trans-Ultra-Photography, Spectre Arts, Durham, NC
Virtual Insanity, Whitdel Arts, Detroit, MI
Regarding Leisure, The University of Northern Florida Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, FL
The Land of No Things: Selected Works by the MFA Class of 2015, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
2015 Annual Auction Exhibition, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
R.E.C.A.P, The Carrack Modern Art, Durham, NC
2014
Press Street and The Blue Library, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Pixel and Grain: Regional Photography Exhibition, Durham Art Guild, SunTrust Gallery, Durham, NC
Art Nouveau Winston-Salem 3rd Annual Exhibition, Womble Carlyle Gallery, Winston Salem, NC
Faraway Nearby: Duke and UNC-CH MFA Photography Faculty, Cassilhaus, Chapel Hill, NC
Between the Eyes, Allcott Student Gallery, Hanes Art Center, Chapel Hill, NC
That Makes Me Nervous, Chapel Hill Underground, Chapel Hill, NC
2013
Icon Industry: The Visual Economy of Human Rights, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University, Durham, NC
Park Pictures, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
2011
Manifest 2011 BA + BFA Photo Exhibition, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
CONTACT: an exhibition of 19th century photographic processes, LivingRoom Gallery, Chicago, IL
2010
Relative Exposure: Photographs of Family, 310conTEMPORARY Gallery, Chicago, IL
Needless Suffering, The Drawing Room Gallery at The Hopkinson House, Chicago, IL
Images of Home, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
Low Tech (Directors Choice Award), The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Suspicious Minds, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship Exhibition, Green Hill Center for NC Art, Greensboro, NC
Awards
ASC Regional Artist Project Grant, 2019
Review Santa Fe 100 Photographers, 2015
NCMA Park Pictures Award, 2013
Artist Residencies
Artist in Residence, The Contemporary Artists Center, Troy, NY (July to August 2014)
Artist in Residence, Starry Night Retreat, Truth or Consequences, NM (June 2014)
Selected Online Publications
Amateur Photographer, aPhotoEditor, BBC World Service, BuzzFeed, CNN, Daily Mail, Daily News, Fast Company, Forbes, Interview, Musee Magazine, PetaPixel, Photograph, Slate, SLRLounge, Tech Insider, The Creators Project, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, The Washington Post, Vice, Wired
Print Publications
Vanity Fair Italia
In Formation Magazine
photograph (Exhibition Review), May/June 2016, pg. 82
DM. Magazine, 14 November 2015, pg. 35 to 39
Publik-Forum, Germany, pg. 40 to 42
As Entertaining As Possible, Lianzhou Photography Festival, China, November 2016, pg. 72 to 75
Amateur Photographer, London, January 2016, pg. 29 to 31
Beobachter, April 2016, pg. 16 to 23
Resource, Summer 2016, pg. 51 to 59
Vanity Fair, 28 October 2015, Italy, pg. 52
emotion, April 2016, Germany, pg. 13
Digitale Depression, 2016, mvg Verlag, pg. 190
Selected Collections
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Joseph M. Cohen Family Collection
JPMorgan Chase Art Collection
Cassilhaus Gallery
Living Room Gallery
Anne-Marie Ombregt
Columbia College Chicago
The Blue Library, RM220
UNC Chapel Hill, Sloan Art Library
Delta Airlines
Artist Biography
Eric Pickersgill is a visual artist, photographer, educator, and father of three based in North Carolina. His work explores human behavior, memory, and the influence of technology, often through photography, video, installation, and conceptual art. He holds an MFA from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a BFA from Columbia College Chicago.
Eric is best known for REMOVED, an internationally exhibited photographic series in which digital devices are physically taken from participants' hands before the photograph is made. This collaborative act reveals the disconnection and altered presence that screen use introduces into daily life. The project has been featured by CNN, The Guardian, BBC, The Atlantic, Huffington Post, and others, and is held in major private and institutional art collections.
His work has been presented at museums, galleries, and art fairs worldwide, including The North Carolina Museum of Art, The Ackland Art Museum, Rick Wester Fine Art, AIPAD, and Pulse Miami, among others. As a seasoned exhibiting artist and speaker, Eric has designed and installed large-scale, multimedia exhibitions across a wide range of environments, from traditional gallery settings to public interventions and cultural institutions.
With more than a decade of teaching experience, Eric has worked in both secondary education and higher ed, where he taught photography, fine art, editing, web design, and visual storytelling. He is a two-time TEDx speaker and frequently lectures at universities, conferences, and cultural events on topics related to screen use, ethics, digital life, and the role of photography in contemporary culture.
Outside of his studio practice, Eric co-owns Pecan Print House, a print and design studio he runs with his wife Angie. Together, they create thoughtfully designed, hand-crafted continuous calendars, prints, and other tangible goods for modern homes and workspaces.
For information on print acquisitions, licensing, or booking, please contact Julie Grahame via info@ericpickersgill.com.