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Image: Erika Choe, 'Horns of a Broken Back', 2025.
Erika Choe creates abstracted portraits of bodies reconciling with weighted trauma through sculpture, performance, video, and installation.
Erika Choe is a conceptual artist working across sculpture, performance, video, and installation. She holds an MFA from School of Visual Arts and a BA with highest honors from University of Virginia. She has received the NARS Foundation Full US Fellowship 2026, James Bernard Haggarty Scholarship Award by NYC Crit Club ‘25, Artist Sculpture Award by Zola ’25, Ceramics Residency by NYCxDESIGN Festival ‘24, and the Ruth Caplin Dance Award for Artistic Excellence ’15. Erika performed at renowned venues like The Shed NY, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), The Fridge Art Gallery NY, and Schrittmaacher Festival in Germany, performing for international choreographers like Akram Khan, Alejandro Cerrudo, and Yin Yue.
Erika Choe is a Brooklyn-based artist working across sculpture, performance, video, and installation. She creates abstracted portraits of bodies as porous carrier bags caught in mid-movement, interpreting inherited trauma as weight that emerges on and in the body. Her previous dance career and her MFA in design from School of Visual Arts informs her practice today.
