Erin Cunningham
Education
BFA Visual Arts, Drawing Boise State University 2005
MFA Visual Arts, Painting Boise State University 2011
Awards and Press
Juror’s Choice Award, Student Juried Show Boise State University 2004
Penland Studio Assistantship, Penland School of Craft, Asheville, NC 2005
“Really Surreal: Erin Cunningham’s Artistic Absurdity” Kelly Lanae Robinson, Boise
Weekly, November 21, 2007
Best of Boise Third Place, Boise Weekly 2009
Best of Boise Third Place, Boise Weekly 2010
“MFA Thesis Exhibit Opening” Kat Thornton, Boise Weekly, March 9, 2011
Best of Boise Reader’s Choice, Best Idaho Living Visual Artist, Boise Weekly 2011
“Wither & Bloom Explores Truth, Memory” Christopher Schnoor, Boise Weekly, June 27, 2012
Best of Boise Reader’s Choice, Best Visual Artist, Boise Weekly 2012
Boise City Department of Arts & History Traffic Box Project, 2013
Idaho Triennial, Boise Art Museum, 2013
Best of Boise Reader’s Choice, Best Visual Artist, Boise Weekly 2014
Nomination, Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, 2014
Nomination, Northwest Contemporary Art Awards, 2014
Alexa Rose Foundation Award, 2018
Gallery CTA Press Video, 2019 https://vimeo.com/371546435/ca5fa75030
Exhibitions
2004 “Election” Performance with the Boise Naval Base, November, Boise
2005 “IBEX” BFA Thesis Exhibition, May, Visual Arts Center, Boise State University
No. 2 Productions, July, Boise ID
No. 2 Productions, October, Boise ID
2006 “Into Nowhere: New Drawings by Erin Cunningham” August
“Visual Assault: Ben Wilson and Erin Cunningham” November, Flying M Boise, ID
2007 “What Lurks in the Basement: Annual Illustration Show” January/February, Basement Gallery, Boise ID
2008 “What Lurks in the Basement: Annual Illustration Show” January/February, Basement Gallery, Boise ID
“Under the Grid” June, J. Crist Gallery, Boise ID
“Now Everyone Can Be Happy” September/October, Basement Gallery, Boise, ID
2009 “Hello Friend: Erin Cunningham and Ben Wilson” June/July, Visual Arts Collective, Garden City
“We Made a Deal with the Devil” August/September, Toronto-New York (traveling exhibition)
2010 “We Art Women” April-May, Visual Arts Collective, Garden City, ID
2011 “Confabulation: MFA Thesis Exhibition” March 11-25, Visual Arts Center, Boise State University
“The New Nothing” July, Bricolage, Boise, ID
2012 “Whispering Pines: The Hazel B. Jackson Project” March, Bricolage, Boise,
"Wither & Bloom” June-July VAC, Boise, ID with Eli Craven
“Navigate” August, Bricolage, Boise, ID
Day of The Dead Altars, Idaho Historical Museum, Boise, ID
2013 “Re-Thread” Bricolage, May, Boise, ID
“Never After” VAC, August-September, Boise, ID
Day of the Dead Altars, Idaho Historical Museum, October, Boise
Idaho Triennial, Boise Art Museum
“Taking Liberties: 60 Seconds” Bricolage, Boise
2015 “New Work” ENSO Artspace, Garden City, ID
“Tiny Wonderful” ENSO Artspace, Garden City, ID
2016 “Dino Show” Swell Gallery, Boise
“32 Cells” Old Idaho Penitentiary
2017 “The Naughty Show” Visual Arts Collective, Garden City, ID
“Terrarium” Visual Arts Collective, Garden City, ID – curator and participant
Boise State Visual Arts Faculty Biennial Exhibition
2018 “Cunningham/Cordell-New Work” Visual Arts Collective, Garden City, ID
2019 Idaho State Historical Museum Permanent Collection “The Babe: Portrait of Jimmie Whittaker” On Display
Boise State University Biennial Faculty Exhibition, Boise Art Museum -- http://www.boiseartmuseum.org/exhibition/2019-boise-state-university-biennial-faculty-exhibition/
“Halloween Exhibition” Flying M, Boise, ID
“Regeneration: Erin Cunningham” Cushing-Terrell Architects CTA Gallery, Boise, ID https://vimeo.com/371546435/ca5fa75030
“Moments” BlueEye Gallery, Nampa ID
2020 “Interior/Exterior: Erin Cunningham & April VanDeGrift” College of Idaho, Rosenthal Gallery, Caldwell, ID
Employment
Studio Artist, Freelance Illustration and Fine Art 2005-present
Boise State University, Adjunct Faculty, 1910 University Drive, 208-426-1000 Supervisors Laurie Blakeslee, Dan Scott 2009-present
College of Western Idaho, Adjunct Faculty, 5500 E. Opportunity Dr, Nampa, ID, Brenda Fisher, Karen Brown Supervisors 2014
Studios
Black Hunger Studios & Gallery, Boise 2011-2013
ENSO Artspace, Boise 2014
Swell Artist Collective, Boise 2016-18
Madasci, Cunningham & Vandegrift Studios, Garden City, ID 2015-present