Eric N. Mack

Eric National Mack is an American painter, multi-media installation artist, and sculptor, based in New York City.

Early life and education

Mack was born in Columbia, Maryland. He attended Suitland High School in Forestville Maryland for their well known CVPA Program where he majored in Sculpture, Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking. His middle name is National, after Washington DC's National Gallery of Art—where his parents met. At an early age, Mack worked for his father at his discount clothing store interacting with a spectrum of fashions and fabrics. Mack's fabric collages often include a spectrum of materials such as moving blankets, bandanas, and other found or locally sourced fabrics.
Mack received his BFA from The Cooper Union in 2010 and his MFA from Yale in 2012. In a 2019 interview with Mahfuz Sultan for PIN-UP Magazine, he is quoted stating that he made most of his work outside while at Yale.

Exhibitions and residencies

Solo exhibitionsEric N. Mack, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Eric N. Mack: Cuts, Móran Móran, Mexico City, Mexico

Eric N. Mack: Lemme walk across the room, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Eric N. Mack: Face It, Móran Móran, Los Angeles, California In austerity, stripped from its support and worn as a sarong, The Power Station, Dallas, Texas Dye Lens, Scrap Metal Gallery, Toronto, Canada Lemme walk across the room, Brooklyn Museum, New York the BALTIC Artists’ Award 2017, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK Eric Mack: Vogue Fabrics, Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Eric N. Mack: Never Had A Dream, Móran Móran, Los Angeles, California

Group exhibitionsLooking Back / The 12th White Columns Annual, curated by Mary Manning, White Columns Whitney Biennial, 2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York Grace Wales Bonner: A Time for New Dreams, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK Ungestalt, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland In the Abstract, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Blue Black, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St Louis, Missouri Making & Unmaking: An exhibition curated by Duro Olowu, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK Greater New York 2015, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York
Residencies

2017 Rauschenberg Residency
2014–2015 The Studio Museum in Harlem Artist-in-Residency Program

Public collections

Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire

Selected bibliography

Vitamin T: Threads & Textiles in Contemporary Art Prime: Art's Next Generation

''Young, Gifted, and Black''