Vancouver based Eric Louie was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He began taking art classes at the Winnipeg Art Gallery at the age of nine and received his B.F.A. from the Alberta College of Art + Design in 2002. He was the recipient of the Jason Laing scholarship while a student and has been exhibiting since graduation including the Art Gallery of Calgary. Eric Louie’s work is collected by many private and corporate collections including Encana Energy and the City of Calgary and he is known for his mural in the Fashion Central building on Stephen Avenue for Encorp Management.  

 

Eric Louie’s latest paintings continue to develop his unique metaphysical language. He has always been interested in spatial dimensions that evoke realms of consciousness and memory. In these paintings he is pushing the spatial relationships by use of multiple planes and a new use of formal abstraction and geometric shapes. They speak of the natural order of things that both acknowledge and deny spatial illusion simultaneously.

 

Education:
2002            B.F.A., Department of Painting, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary                           Alberta,  Canada

1995-97       Management Program , University of Calgary, Calgary Alberta, Canada

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Solo Exhibitions:
2025            “Come to Life, Life to Come, Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary, AB
2024.           Bau-Xi Vancouver, BC
2023.           “Becoming”, Bau-Xi Vancouver, BC
2023.          “Where The Light Falls”, Bau-Xi Toronto, ON
2022.          “Hide & Seek” Bau-Xi Vancouver, BC
2021.          “Remembered Futures”, Bau-Xi Vancouver, BC
2021.          “Second Nature”, Bau-Xi Toronto, ON
2020.          “Finding A Way”, Bau-Xi Vancouver, BC
2020.          “Emergence”, Bau-Xi Toronto, ON
2019           “Awakening”, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2019           “Chameleon”, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON
2018           “Semblances”, Herringer Kiss Gallery- Calgary,AB
2017           Galerie D’Este, Montreal,QC
2016           “The Last Time I Saw You” – Herringer Kiss Gallery- April
2014           “Singled Out”, Elissa Cristall Gallery,Vancouver,BC
2014           “ Levels and Constructs”, Herringer Kiss Gallery
2011           “Destiny”, Axis Contemporary Art Gallery, Calgary,AB
2010           “Another Life”, The Gallery, Calgary,AB
2007           “The Current”, Art Central, Calgary, AB
2006           “Dreamer,”, Art Central, Calgary,AB
2003           “Hidden Spaces”, Little Gallery, University of Calgary, Group Exhibitions:
2024.           Je Suis Mirage, Wishbone Gallery Montreal, QC 
2024.           Early Man 2, The Hole Gallery New York, NY, USA
2024.          Elements/Air, Foster White Gallery Seattle, WA, USA
2023.          Art Toronto, Bau-Xi Gallery Toronto, ON
2023.          Tasting Menu, Herringer Kiss Gallery Calgary, AB
2022.          Was Eleven, Marymount Gallery Tokyo, Japan
2022.          Art Toronto, Bau-Xi Gallery Toronto, ON

2021.          Art Toronto, Bau-Xi Gallery Toronto, ON
2021.           Method IV, Bau-Xi Gallery Toronto, ON
2020.          Art Toronto, Bau-Xi Gallery Toronto, ON
2019.          Method II, Bau-Xi Gallery Toronto, ON
2019.          Galerie D’Este Montreal, QC
2019.          Toronto International Art Fair with Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON
2019.          Seeing Red, Thinkspace Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2018           Art Toronto, with Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON
2018           Group Show ,Galerie D’Este,  Montreal,QC
2016           Summer Group Show, Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver,BC
2016           Summer Group Show, Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary,AB
2016           Virtually Abstract, Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver,BC
2016           Art for Food, Herringer Kiss Gallery,Calgary,AB
2015           Summer Group Show,Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary,AB
2015           Summer Group Show, Elissa Cristall Gallery,Vancouver,BC
2015           Winter Group Show, Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver,BC
2014           Art Toronto, with Herringer Kiss Gallery- Toronto,ON
2014           Summer Group Show,Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver,BC
2014           Summer Group Show, Herringer Kiss Gallery,Calgary,AB
2014           Art for Food-2014-Group Show, Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary,AB
2014           Landscape into Abstraction, Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver,BC
2013           Art for Food- 2013-Group Show, Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary,AB
2013           Winter Group Show, Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary,AB
2013           Masterpiece Contemporary 13′, Art Gallery of Calgary
2012           “Down The Rabbit Hole”, Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary, AB
2012          Masterpiece Contemporary 12′, Art Gallery of Calgary
2012           HK Annual Winter Group Show, Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary, AB

                    Magician, Dalgliesh Gallery, Calgary,AB
2004           Flower Power, Dalgliesh Gallery, Calgary, AB
2002           Graduating Exhibition, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, AB

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Awards:
2001            Jason Laing Scholarship , Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, AB

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Public Artworks:
2018.      Facebook HQ Vancouver – Mural for A.I.R. Program (Artist in Residence)

                Main Lobby- 200 Burrard, Vancouver, BC

2018.      Strathcona Brewery – Mural in Alleyway completed for Strathcona

                Street Fest and the Vancouver Mural Festival.

2018.      Tumble – Mural at the Forge on Granville Island, Vancouver, BC.
                 Sponsored by Granville Is. & Artsmash. Vancouver Mural Festival.
2010.      13 Ladies – Mural at Fashion Central on Stephen Avenue (Encorp)

Calgary, AB

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Collections:

Facebook
CIBC Bank, Calgary, AB
NBC Studios.
Paramount Pictures.
MGM Pictures.
Encana Energy, “The Bow” Calgary, AB
City of Calgary, Calgary Transit, Municipal Building
City of Calgary, Calgary Transit, N.E Head Office
Swedish Thoracic Medical Centre, Seattle WA, USA
Detechtion Technologies Collection, Calgary, AB
Euphoric Solutions, Vancouver, BC
Ballet Lounge, Vancouver, BC

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Selected Reviews and Media Interviews:
2018. Booooooom Blog Feature
2018. Georgia Straight on Art SMASH- Tammy Kwan
2017. Young Space Blog Feature
2016  Booooooom Blog spotlight
2016  Alberta Views Magazine, April 2016, image. Beate Wichmann
2014  “Singled Out”at Elissa Cristall. October 2014, Blog
2014  Alberta Views Magazine, October 2014, image. Beate Wichmann
2012  Art Gallery of Calgary (essay) “Down the Rabbit Hole”, by curator: Anne
                    Ewen
2012  Calgary Herald, “Pop Surrealism explored down Art Gallery of Calgary’s
                    Rabbit Hole”, Heath McCoy
2012 FFWD Magazine, “Pop Goes the Art World”, Indrani Kar
2012 Avenue Magazine, “Down the Rabbit Hole at Art Gallery of Calgary”
                    Greg Beneteau
2010 Shaw Cable, 14 Ladies Mural at Fashion Central, Shiva Jahanshah
2009 All the Best Things, ”Painting Through Urban Eyes”, Magdalena Gorski
2007 Avenue Magazine, “Voyeuristic Voyages”, Lynda Sea