Bio/CV: Eric Santoscoy-Mckillip is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. He was born in 1989 and raised in the U.S./Mexico borderland city of El Paso, Texas. Eric earned a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin, in 2011, a Masters in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Texas at El Paso in 2015 focusing on art education and border studies, and a MFA in Fine Art from the New York University in 2017. He has shown in Texas, New Mexico and New York.

Artist Statement: Moving between painting and sculpture, my work is an examination of place and identity through the use of color, symbols, space, and textures by reclaiming what has already been reclaimed. The transitions between these elements shift, overlap and blur to reflect the physical and metal in-between space of the US-Mexico borderland, the continually changing complex identities and histories of myself and of the geographic region. My practice is a tool to reassess the narratives I was told to be true or that I have pieced together myself and those that have been passed on by oral, familial and communal histories. I use it to connect to people and places I no longer can and reflect on imagery through the time I spent with it. Building a lexicon through different techniques, like making and using stucco as both a texture and protectant or applying layers of paint to abstract the underlying form, I am paying respect to the lineage of the painting (i.e. sand painting, sign painting, car painting, murals, landscape) in the southwest and US/Mexico border culture while using a both minimal/maximal language to isolate, bring specificity and focus on this place that is fleeting, shifting and changing.

One Person Exhibition:

2023
muro’s, burning lights in the desert, Kates-Ferri Projects, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2023
Chroma Futures, Laundromat Art Space, Miami, FL                                          Halo’s, Libscomb University, Nashville, TN

2022
X Marks the Spot, Kates-Ferri Projects at DuMuro Das, New York, NY Art.Now.23 Hearst Tower curated by Betty Levin, New York, NY
Home Coming, Kates-Ferri Projects, New York, NY
Young Painters, Miami University, Oxford, OH

2021
Surfacing, Ruiz-Healy Art, New York, NY                                                               Puros Exitos, Beverly’s, New York, NY                                                                                                         Untitled Miami, Latchkey Gallery, Miami, FL

2020
Dissolving Artifacts, Studio 200, Brooklyn, NY
These Lessons, Spring Break Art Show, New York, NY                                         Las Ventanitas, Latchkey Gallery, New York, NY

2019
Down to Earth, Head Hi, Brooklyn, NY
Place, Color y Sand, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX                                  Houses In Motion, Theodore Art, Brooklyn, NY

2018
Group show, Theodore Art, Brooklyn, NY


2017
Be Your Own Puppet, Theodore Art, Brooklyn, NY                                             NYU MFA Thesis Show, 80 WSE Gallery, New York, NY

2016
POCHO, 80 WSE Gallery, New York, NY
MFA First Year Exhibition, 80 WSE, New York, NY

2015
29 Palms, OUTLET, Brooklyn, NY
Here and Now, Las Cruses Museum of Art, Las Cruses, NM                             Neither Here nor There, Glass Gallery, UTEP, EL Paso, TX

2014
Excavation/Sedimentation, UTEP, El Paso, TX Mirror Voids, UTEP, El Paso, TX

2012
Tumbleweeds: S.S.S.F. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY First Show: S.S.S.F. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2011
Blowout 10: A Print Show, Austin, TX

2010
Blowout 9: A Print Show, Austin, TX

Guest Lectures:

2021 Dr. Charles White Speaker Series, Stetson University                            

2019 Graphic Design Studio II, University of New Haven

2015 Artists Talk, University of Texas at El Paso

Residencies:
2021                                                                                                                Kates-Ferri Projects, New York, NY
Lower East Side Print Key Holder Residency, New York, NY

Social: @eric_santiscoy_mckillip