Erik Hagen
When people see my mixed media paintings, installations and wall relief sculptures, I’d like them to contemplate the depth of geologic time and experience the wonder of being alive in this relatively short moment.
Hagen was born in 1967 in St. Paul, Minnesota. He studied art and art history at Carleton College (BA) and won a post-graduate art residency at Carleton for one year. Hagen has additional degrees in environmental engineering and water resources management from the University of Washington (BSCE, MSCE).
A passion for communicating science to non-technical audiences is a passion throughout his career as an engineer, policy analyst, and artist.
Hagen moved to Houston in 2012. He is Vice President of the Houston Visual Arts Alliance, a non-profit artist membership organization.
His artworks are found in public and private collections across the country and abroad, including The Houston Museum of Natural Science, the Sea Oceanographic Institute in Woods Hole, MA, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, DC. In Houston, his work can be found in Mixed Emotions Gallery and Serrano Gallery.
Education
1985- 1990
1990-1991
1993-1995
1996
Carleton College
Art Residency, Carleton College
BS Civil Engineering, UW Seattle
MS Civil Engineering, UW Seattle
Awards
2017
2017
2016
Honorable Mention, Art on the Avenue, Houston
Individual Artist Grant 2017 HAA
Honorable Mention, VAA 33rd Juried Open Exhibition
Exhibitions
Solo
2014
Fossils of the Anthropocene, Nos Caves Vin, Houston, TX
2014
2010
Fossils of the Anthropocene, AAAS Gallery, Washington, DC
Exploring Beauty by Erik Hagen, Gallery Upstairs, Rijswijk, NL
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Recent Group
2020
Overlapping Connections, Erik Hagen and Cecilia Villanueva, Nos Caves Vin, Houston, TX
2019
Excavations, Erik Hagen and Ellen Ray, The Silos, Houston, TX
2019
Listening to the Anthropocene, Sarofim Fine Arts Gallery, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX, Curator: Douglas Cushing
2018
The Ends of Our Index Fingers Are Mute, Solar Studios at Rice University with Daniela Antelo, Bradly Brown, Brenda Cruz, Tony Day, Lina Dib, Trey Duvall
2017
Art on the Avenue Juried Gallery Selection, Winter St., Houston, TX, Juror: Paul Davis
2017
Sculptures in Artist Alley, Silos at Sawyer Yards, Houston, TX
2017
Big Show, Lawndale, Houston, TX, Juror: Toby Camps
2017
Assistance League Houston Celebrates Texan Art 2017, Houston, TX, Juror: José Esparza Chong Cuy
2017
Assistance League Houston Celebrates Texan Art 2017, Houston, TX, Juror: José Esparza Chong Cuy
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