BIO
Erin Latham Ph.D. is a concept driven installation artist, printmaker, author, and curator living and working in Oklahoma City, OK. She received her Doctorate of Philosophy in Art Theory, Aesthetics, and Philosophy at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, her Masters of Fine art from the Pratt Institute in Printmaking, and her Bachelors of Fine Art from the University of Oklahoma.She has a passion for sharing art with others and was a teaching artist for twelve years. As the Artistic Director for You Artistry Collaborative she works with artists to facilitate collaborative projects. She is the Manager of Current Co-op LLC, an artist-run cooperative studio space and a co-founder of “Rock Paper Scissors Collaborative '' an installation based collaborative art-making team, as well as a co-founding artist of a former OKC based immersive artist collective. She has exhibited bodies of work in spaces across the US, and has received multiple grants from organizations to facilitate the creation of new artwork and collaborative projects, as well as presenting at conferences around the world. Latham is interested in understanding the impact her work has on the environment and how that impact affects populations. She explores the world around her-the environment she exists within-both ecological and social-through an interplay of materials and processes, that are based in community engagement and connectivity to nature.