Biography
Erika Osborne received her BFA from the University of Utah in painting and drawing and her MFA from the University of New Mexico. Erika’s artwork deals with cultural connections to place and environment with specific interest in the forests of the West and Southwest. She has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally, with recent exhibitions at the Phoenix Art Museum, the Palo Alto Art Center, the Nevada Museum of Art, the Koumi Kogen Museum in Nagano, Japan and the Prof. Nestór Agúndez Martinez Casa de Cultura, in Baja California Sur, Mexico. Erika has also been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a recent Fulbright fellowship where she completed a series of paintings about fire in the Sierra de la Laguna, Mexico. Her work has been highlighted in five books surveying the evolution of land and environmental art in the West. Erika has also been a contributing author for books and journals such as Making the Geologic Now: Responses to Material Conditions of Contemporary Life and Arts Programming for the Anthropocene: Art in Community and Environment. Erika’s work has been featured in national publications along with international art magazines such as New American Paintings, Art Papers, Sculpture Magazine and Southwest Art Magazine.
Erika is a Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Colorado State University and lives with her husband, Tracy Stuckey, and their children in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Recent Shows and/or Exhibitions
2025
The Love Language of Fire, solo exhibition, Visions West Contemporary, Denver, CO
2024
Cultivando El Fuego, solo exhibition, Museo de Arte de Baja California Sur, La Paz, BCS, Mexico
Shifting Balances: Reflections on Land, Climate and Beauty, Lincoln Center, Fort Collins, CO
2023
Manteniendo la Llama, solo exhibition, Prof. Nestor Agundez Martinez Casa de Cultura, Todos Santos, BCS, Mexico
Fire in the Mountains, two-person exhibition, Wolverine Farm Publik House, Fort Collins, CO
Eternal Return, two-person exhibition, McNichols Civic Center gallery, Denver, CO
Out of Ashes, two-person exhibition, Studio West Gallery, Pikes Peak State College, Colorado Springs, CO
Arboreal, Schick Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Land Marks of Art, Tryst Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
Mountain Standard Time, Visions West Contemporary, Denver, CO
Some Kind of Nature, FOMA Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2022
Fire Transforms, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
Guild of Adventure Painters, Dairy Art Center, Boulder, CO
2021
Landscapes of Extraction: The Art of Mining in the American West, Pheonix Art Museum, Pheonix, AZ
2020
Shared Space, two-person exhibition, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
Co-Terminus, Union Hall Gallery, Denver, CO
High Stakes, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
Erika Osborne received her BFA from the University of Utah in painting and drawing and her MFA from the University of New Mexico. Erika’s artwork deals with cultural connections to place and environment with specific interest in the forests of the West and Southwest. She has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally, with recent exhibitions at the Phoenix Art Museum, the Palo Alto Art Center, the Nevada Museum of Art, the Koumi Kogen Museum in Nagano, Japan and the Prof. Nestór Agúndez Martinez Casa de Cultura, in Baja California Sur, Mexico. Erika has also been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a recent Fulbright fellowship where she completed a series of paintings about fire in the Sierra de la Laguna, Mexico. Her work has been highlighted in five books surveying the evolution of land and environmental art in the West. Erika has also been a contributing author for books and journals such as Making the Geologic Now: Responses to Material Conditions of Contemporary Life and Arts Programming for the Anthropocene: Art in Community and Environment. Erika’s work has been featured in national publications along with international art magazines such as New American Paintings, Art Papers, Sculpture Magazine and Southwest Art Magazine.
Erika is a Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Colorado State University and lives with her husband, Tracy Stuckey, and their children in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Recent Shows and/or Exhibitions
2025
The Love Language of Fire, solo exhibition, Visions West Contemporary, Denver, CO
2024
Cultivando El Fuego, solo exhibition, Museo de Arte de Baja California Sur, La Paz, BCS, Mexico
Shifting Balances: Reflections on Land, Climate and Beauty, Lincoln Center, Fort Collins, CO
2023
Manteniendo la Llama, solo exhibition, Prof. Nestor Agundez Martinez Casa de Cultura, Todos Santos, BCS, Mexico
Fire in the Mountains, two-person exhibition, Wolverine Farm Publik House, Fort Collins, CO
Eternal Return, two-person exhibition, McNichols Civic Center gallery, Denver, CO
Out of Ashes, two-person exhibition, Studio West Gallery, Pikes Peak State College, Colorado Springs, CO
Arboreal, Schick Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Land Marks of Art, Tryst Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
Mountain Standard Time, Visions West Contemporary, Denver, CO
Some Kind of Nature, FOMA Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2022
Fire Transforms, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
Guild of Adventure Painters, Dairy Art Center, Boulder, CO
2021
Landscapes of Extraction: The Art of Mining in the American West, Pheonix Art Museum, Pheonix, AZ
2020
Shared Space, two-person exhibition, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
Co-Terminus, Union Hall Gallery, Denver, CO
High Stakes, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO