Biography

Eric Wolf (b. 1960, American) is a painter and designer based in New York’s Hudson Valley. He is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, BFA 1982 in Photography, and the City College of New York, CUNY, MFA in Painting, 1990, and attended Skowhegan, 1989. Wolf has had residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, Giverny, the Blue Mountain Center and Art Omi.

Solo exhibitions include Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Gregory Lind Gallery, Oresman Gallery at Smith College, The Williston School, Jeff Bailey Gallery, Fredericks-Freiser Gallery, Jessica Fredericks Gallery, and Kristina Wasserman Gallery.

Wolf was interviewed by Etty Yaniv for ARTSPIEL, in May of 2022. Other interviews include include 2 in Gorky’s Granddaughter, by Zachary Keeting and Christopher Joy, Two Coats of Paint, by Patrick Neal, and Rural Intelligence by John Campbell. Reviews of exhibitions include Visual Art Source by DeWitt Chang, The New York Times by Roberta Smith, Holland Cotter and Ken Johnson, The New Yorker by Alexi Worth and David Rimanelli, Art News by Gregory Volk, Art in America by Vincent Katz, Artforum by Julie Caniglia, Frieze, New York Press, and others.

In September of 2023, Wolf organized the group exhibition TEXT, at Joyce Goldstein Gallery in Chatham, NY, which was reviewed in Chronogram by Taliesin Thomas, and in the Albany Times Union by Matt Moment.