Curriculum Vitae
Lives and works in Dallas and Austin, Texas
Education
2008-2011 Masters in Landscape Architecture, University of Texas at Austin
2000-2001 Certificate of Interior Decoration, Parsons School of Design
1996-2000 BA, Fine Arts, Vanderbilt University
Solo Painting Exhibitions
2023 Healing Landscape, Birmingham, Alabama
2022 Restoration, Cluley Projects, Dallas
2022 PRAIRIE, Botanical Research Institute of Texas [BRIT] Gallery + Artspace 111 Gallery, Ft Worth
2018 The Ramble: A Traveller’s Observations Based Upon a Journey and Investigation, Gallery Shoal Creek, Austin
2017 Waco Creek: Static/Dynamic Urban Wilderness, The Art Center, Waco
2014 Urban Wilderness: Cameron Park, Anthem Studios, Waco
2013 Orientations: Trinity River Sump, Shannon Bowers Designs, Dallas
2012 Landscape Recordings: Shoal Creek Greenbelt, O2 Gallery: Flatbed Press, Austin
Two-person Painting Exhibitions
2021 Here We Raise, All Saints Church, Austin, with artist Phaedra Taylor
2014 Untethered, Ever Changing with artist Karina Hean, Gallery Shoal Creek, Austin
Selected Group Painting Exhibitions
2024 Making Waves, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, with artists Hampton Boyer, Roberta Gentry, Meg Lipke, Bailey Santaguida, Amanda Valdez & SARUNGANO WEMESO (Tendai Mupita)
2023 Renewal, Artspace 111, Ft Worth, with artists Carol Benson, Janet Chaffee, Allie Regan Dickerson
2021 WILD, Cluley Projects, Dallas
2020 The Feast of St Elmo, Vault Stone Shop, Austin
2018 Post-Apocalyptic Harvest, Atelier 1205, Austin
2017 Pleased to Meet You, Open Space, Dallas
2017 Open House, 100W Corsicana, Corsicana
2014 Summer Cut, Valley House Gallery, Dallas
2012 Celebrate Texas Art 2012 Juried Show, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston
2011 New Work, UTSOA Materials Lab Exhibition Space, E.A.S.T., Austin
2011 Casa Relaxation, Willow House Gallery, E.A.S.T., Austin
2011 Looking for Transformation, Juried Show, Redeemer, New York
2010 Home for Dislocated Furniture, Willow House Gallery, E.A.S.T., Austin
2006 Art into Action/ Action into Art, Juried Show, TNC Gallery, New York
Solo Site-Specific Installations
2014 Branch, site-specific piece, Henderson St., Art on Henderson, Dallas
2013/14 Bird Bridge, site-specific temporary outdoor installation, Activating Vacancy with bcWORKSHOP, NEA grant, Tenth St. Neighborhood Historic District, Dallas
2012 City Stories, three interior wall murals, W83 Ministry Center, New York
2009 Coffee Landscape, outdoor art installation, UTSOA: 2×2, Austin
Group Site-Specific Installations
2014 Story Corners, outdoors storytelling event—stage design, Activating Vacancy, with bcWorkshop Tenth St. Neighborhood Historic District, Dallas
2014 GhostBridges, art and public interest design community initiative, Activating Vacancy with bcWorkshop, Tenth St. Neighborhood Historic District, Dallas
Awards + Honors
2022 Preservation Dallas Preservation Achievement Award
2019 Vermont Studio Center Residency, painting, Johnson, Vermont
2017 100West Corsicana Arts Residency, Navarro Country Council for the Arts Prize, Corsicana, Texas
2016 Vox Venaie Arts Residency, Austin
2016 PaperCity Design Award, Runner-Up: Historical, Restoration/Preservation Dallas Preservation, Residential
2015 Preservation Dallas Preservation Achievement Award
2015 Finalist, Hunting Art Prize
2014 Three month Artist-in-Residency, Shoal Creek Conservancy, Austin
2012 Special Mention, Celebrate Texas Art 2012, Houston
2011, 14, 15 Finalist, Kalos Visual Arts Prize, Ruminate Magazine
Writing
Texas Architect, April 2017 “Lessons by the Sea”
Texas Architect, July 2015 “Tree to Table”
Texas Architect, November 2014 “Collaboration & Craftsmen”
UT Planning Forum
Aether Arts Journal, November 2017 “Ai WeiWei at Waller Creek”
Aether Arts Journal, April 2015 “Nancy Rubins, STREET ART: Outdoor Public Sculpture for UT Campus”
Aether Arts Journal, June 2014 “Waller Wall by Murray Legge, Waller Creek’s Peripatetic Image”
Teaching
Lakewood Conservatory of Fine Arts, Dallas
Laity Lodge, Leakey, Texas
Press
Village Living, July 2023
Fort Worth Report, April 2022
https://fortworthreport.org/2022/04/14/paintings-created-on-site-at-the-brit-shine-new-light-on-restored-prairie/
The American Scholar, September 2018 Portrait of the Artist: Erika Huddleston, Meditative Studies
Waco Tribune, September 2017 “Artist immerses herself in neglected world of Waco Creek”
The Gospel Coalition, June 2017 “How Art Can Inspire Us to Fear God”
Texas Monthly, May 2017 “10 Texas Artists to Collect Now”
Shoal Creek Conservancy, September 2014 “Artist in Residence: Erika Huddleston”
Art House Dallas, August 2013 “Erika Huddleston | Visual Artist”
Tribeza, January 2013 “Artist Spotlight: Erika Huddleston, page 44”
Work Experience
2012- 2013 Hocker Design Group, Landscape Architecture, Dallas, TX
2010 Trust for Public Land, Public Affairs, Washington, D.C. (summer)
2006-2008 Trinity Trust Foundation, Community Engagement (now Trinity Park Conservancy), Dallas
2002-2006 Hable Textiles, Interior Design Textile Design and Management, NYC
2001-2002 6th, 7th, and 8th grade Art Teacher, MS 222, Mott Haven, South Bronx, NYC Board of Education