Eric Fertman

Eric Fertman (born 1974 in Boston Massachusetts) is an American artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. He received his Bachelors in Fine Arts from The Cooper Union School of Art and Science in 1997. Fertman’s work is primarily based in sculpture but also exists as works on paper and installation. His artwork has exhibited nationally, most recently with solo shows at Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) in Winston-Salem, NC; The Kemper Museum in Kansas City, Missouri and in a two-person presentation at Time Equities, Inc., NYC for The Art-in-Buildings Program. Reviews of his work have appeared in Artforum, The New York Times and Sculpture Magazine among others.

• 2015 “Tropical Burnout”, Susan Inglett Gallery NYC
• 2014 “A Comic Turn”, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston-Salem, NC
• 2012 Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC
• "Eric Fertman: Here's Your Hat, What's Your Hurry?", Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO 2012
• 2010 Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC
• 2009 Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC

• 2016 "Stark Imagery: The Male Nude in Art,” William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, CT
• 2014 “Dialogue: Eric Fertman and Nick Hornby”, Time Equities, Inc. Art-in-Buildings Program, NYC
• 2012 “To the Stars on the Wings of an Eel”, Gowanus Ballroom, Brooklyn, NY
• 2012 "Brucennial ", NYC
• 2011 “Thisorganized”, curated by Hope Gangloff, Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC
• 2011 “Incongruent Sum”, Mathematics Collective, NYC
• 2010 “Brucennial”, NYC
• 2009 “Kings County Biennial”, Kidd Yellin, Brooklyn, NY
• 2009 “Garish”, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
• 2009 “Smithumenta”, Brooklyn, NY
• 2009 “Off The Books!”, curated by Benjamin Degen, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, NYC
• 2009 “On From Here”, Guild and Greyshkul, NYC
• “Without Walls”, Museum 52, NYC. 2008
• 2008 “Where are we?”, The Pearl Arts Gallery, Stone Ridge, NY
• 2007 “Overbite/Underbite”, Ritter/Zamet Gallery, London
• 2007 “To Build a Fire”, Rivington Arms Gallery, NYC
• 2006 “Jack Be Nimble Jack Be Quick”, Roberts and Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• 2005 “How Bad Do You Want It”, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
• 2004 “In Practice Projects”, Sculpture Center, NYC
• 1997 “The Early Works”, Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union, NYC

• Patterson, Tom. WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL, 27 April 2014.
• Aichele, K. Porter CVNC, 15 April 2014.
• Staff, “Itinerary - Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MI: Eric Fertman”, SCULPTURE MAGAZINE, June 2012, vol. 31, no. 5. p. 15.
• Kirsch, Elisabeth, “Eric Fertman Tips his hat to the surreal in Kemper at the Crossraods exhibit”, KANSAS CITY STAR, 17 March 2012.
• Staff, “Eric Fertman : Kemper at the Crossroads”, KANSAS CITY STAR, 2 February 2012, Weekend Preview, p. 19.
• Kourlas, Gia NEW YORK TIMES, 24 July 2011.
• Karamat, Ambereen SVA School of Visual Arts Art Criticism and Writing Blog, 20 December 2010.
• Wilson, Michael Susan Inglett Gallery”, ARTFORUM, November 2010, p. 264.
• Staff ARTDAILY.ORG, 14 September 2010.
• Stern, Melissa NEW YORK PRESS, 30 December 2009.
• Castro, Jan Garden SCULPTURE, September 2009, p. 69.
• West, Paige, “Buy”, ART ADDICT, 29 January 2009.
• Johnson, Ken NEW YORK TIMES, 20 January 2009.
• Staff ARTICLE, Winter 2007.
• Mao, Lady PETITE MORT.
• Staff MORE OR LESS, September 2002.
• Staff ARCADE, Summer 2002.
• Yoon, Prabda, “Don’t Read, Carefully”, ILLUSTRATOR, (Bangkok: Open Books), 2002.

• "Pair of shows at SECCA reflect efforts of former curator, new curator". Winston-Salem Journal. Retrieved 18 March 2015. 
• "CVNC: An Online Arts Journal in North Carolina - A Comic Turn:  Eric Fertman at SECCA". cvnc.org. Retrieved 18 March 2015. 
• “Through a Portal, to a World Where Listless Blue Creatures Await’”
• "Ambereen Karamat on Eric Fertman at Susan Inglett Gallery - Art Criticism & Writing". sva.edu. Retrieved 18 March 2015. 
• Michael Wilson. "Michael Wilson on Eric Fertman". artforum.com. Retrieved 18 March 2015. 
• Ignacio Villarreal. "Second Solo Exhibition for Eric Fertman at Susan Inglett Gallery". artdaily.com. Retrieved 18 March 2015. 
• "Ending the Year on a Outside Note". Speaking in Tongues. Retrieved 18 March 2015. 
• “Review : Eric Fertman"
• “Art in Review”
• "Nine Lumps". articlejournal.net. Retrieved 18 March 2015. 
• “Turn Trash into Treasure”,
• "EF Studio - More or Less". efstudio.org. Retrieved 18 March 2015. 
• "// a r c a d e //". arcadeproject.org. Retrieved 18 March 2015.