Eric Cruikshank
(born Inverness, UK, 1975)
Education
1993 - 1997 BA (Hons) Painting and Drawing, Edinburgh College of Art.
Selected Solo and Joint Exhibitions
2025
The Arc of a Day, Project Space, PHOEBUS Galerie, Rotterdam.
2024
Open Light (with James Lumsden), Inverness Museum and Art Gallery.
An Echo, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas.
2023
Anmutungen (with Stephan Ehrenhofer), Galerie Albrecht, Berlin.
Light from a Shared Place, &Gallery, Edinburgh.
2022
Point of Departure, Schacky Art & Advisory, Dusseldorf.
2021
Breathing Space (with Michael Craik), Victor Lope Arte Contemporáneo, Barcelona.
The Skies Window, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas.
2019
Reductive in Nature, Schacky Art & Advisory, Dusseldorf.
A Stillness that Contains Movement, The Briggait, Glasgow.
2018
Paper Skies, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas.
2017
Clear Light Day – Soft Dark Night, DAS ESSZIMMER, Bonn.
The Relative Medium (with Michael Craik), Galleri Konstepidemin, Gothenburg.
Trace, Press, Bleed, Blend (with Laura Campbell), Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh.
2016
Continuum (with Ian Kane), RAUMX, London.
Repetition Takes Form, AIS Gallery, Shibukawa.
2015Ways of Seeing (with Michael Craik), Howden Park Centre, Livingston.
Plus | Minus | Repeat, Sleeper Gallery, Edinburgh.
2013
Malerei (with Michael Craik), Galerie Albrecht, Berlin.
Colour as Subject, Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh.
2012
The Solo Project – Basel with Galerie Albrecht.
2010
When I Was Small I Didn't Work Big, Galerie Albrecht, Berlin.
Dalcross Project Space (with Ian Kane), Dalcross, Inverness shire.
The Colour of Home, Gebert Contemporary, Santa Fe.
Moments of Absence, Limousine Bull, Aberdeen.
En Forme (with Cecilia Vissers), ParisCONCRET, Paris.
2009
Colour | Light | Space, Highland Institute for Contemporary Art, Inverness-shire.
Selected Group Exhibitions and Fairs
2025
Fragments, &Gallery, Edinburgh.
Art Karlsruhe with Patrick Heide Contemporary Art.
2024
Annual Winter Exhibition, &Gallery, Edinburgh.
Anonymous Drawings, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin – then traveling to Kunsthaus Erfurt & Hyperculturalpassengers, Hamburg.
Now and Then, Dalkeith Palace, Dalkeith.
Drawing Now Paris with Galerie Albrecht and Patrick Heide Contemporary Art.
London Art Fair with &Gallery.
2023
Annual Winter Exhibition, &Gallery, Edinburgh.
All Over Again, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London.
Perpetual Arrival, Platform-A Gallery, Middlesbrough.
Paintings, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas.
2022
St Nicholas, Meakin + Parsons x Hannah Payne, Oxford.
Anonymous Drawings, Galerie im Kornerpark, Berlin.
Dallas Art Fair with Schacky Art & Advisory.
2021
Art Miami with Schacky Art & Advisory.
A Generous Space, Hasting Contemporary, Hastings.
Art Cologne with Schacky Art & Advisory.
Reencuentros, LAB ART Studio, Barcelona.
In Sequence, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas.
Landschaft – Abstrakt - Figuarativ, Galerie Albrecht, Berlin.
2020
A Selection for Art Cologne, Schacky Art & Advisory, Dusseldorf.
IDENTITIES, Victor Lope Arte Contemporáneo, Barcelona.
Drawer Project, PHOEBUS Galerie, Rotterdam.
Gebert Contemporary, Santa Fe.
Paint vs Colour, Five Walls Gallery, Melbourne.
Art Palm Beach with Schacky Art & Advisory.
2019
Beneath the Surface, City Art Centre, Edinburgh.
,,Zwischen Ausgängen - Pending Issues'', Galerie Weisser Elefant, Berlin.
Summertime Blues, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas.
Hybrid Madrid with WASPS.
Should I Stay or Should I Go?, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London.
Anonymous Drawing Archive, Kunsthaus Kannen, Munster.
2018
TWO x TWO For Aids and Art, The Rachofsky House, Dallas.
Anonymous Drawings, Galerie im Kornerpark, Berlin.
Somewhere Over the Interconnected Rainbow, Drawing Rooms, New Jersey.
Artists at Work, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh.
2017
Fault Lines, EIF exhibition curated by The Drawing Works, Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh.
FAR OFF Cologne with DAS ESSZIMMER.
Extended Process, Saturation Point Projects, London.
2016
DAS ESSZIMMER goes Weltraum, Weltraum, Basel.
2015
Anonymous Drawings, Kunstverein Tiergarten|Galerie Nord, Berlin - then travelling to Galerie ARTQ13, Rome; Galerie GEYSO20, Braunschweig & Kunstverein Russelsheim.
Artbox Postcard Exhibition, Fold Gallery, London.
2013
Kunst Zurich with Galerie Albrecht.
Poste Concret2, ParisCONCRET, Paris.
Anonymous Drawings, Kunstverein Tiergarten|Galerie Nord, Berlin - then travelling to Galerie Delikatessenhaus, Leipzig & Temporary Art Centre, Eindhoven.
2012
Three Gallery Artists, Galerie Albrecht, Berlin.
2011
Anonymous Drawing Archive, Sihlquaiss Offspace, Zurich.
Poste Concret, ParisCONCRET, Paris.
Dallas Art Fair with Gebert Contemporary.
2010
Anonymous Drawing Archive, Uferhallen, Berlin.
Art Chicago with Galerie Albrecht.
2009
Anonymous Drawings, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanian, Berlin.
Kunst Zurich with Galerie Albrecht.
CGP Open, Cafe Gallery Projects, London.
AAS, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen.
Selected Awards, Prizes and Residencies
2025
Project Space Micro Residency PHOEBUS Galerie, Rotterdam.
La Maison de Simon Residency, France.
Edinburgh Visual Artist & Craft Maker Award.
2023
Dundee Visual Artist & Craft Maker Award.
2020
Creative Scotland Bridging Bursary Fund.
2016
Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust Award.
2014
Edinburgh Council Visual Artist Award.
2013
Hope Scott Trust (joint award with Michael Craik).
2012
Mustarinda Residency, Finland.
2010
Santa Fe Art Institute Residency, USA.
2009
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.
Hi-Arts Exhibition Grant.
Public Collections
Art in Healthcare Scotland.
City of Edinburgh Art Collection.
Maggie’s Art Collection.
Santa Fe Art Institute.
U.T. Southwestern Medical Center Dallas.
Selected Publications, Interviews and Reviews
2023
The Scotsman – review of Light from a Shared Place.
Exh. catalogue Light from a Shared Place.
2022
Exh. catalogue Point of Departure with interview by Marion Eisele.
2021
Interviewed by Alba Alarcos Veiga for exhibition Breathing Space.
Glasstire – review of The Skies Window.
2019
The Scotsman - review of Beneath the Surface.
Studio International - review of Beneath the Surface.
The Edinburgh Reporter – review of Beneath the Surface.
Exh. catalogue Beneath the Surface with essay by Kenneth Dingwall.
Widewalls – review of Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Art Fair catalogue Hybrid Madrid.
2018
Exh. catalogue Clear Light Day – Soft Dark Night with interview by Sibylle Feucht.
2017
The Scotsman – review of Fault Lines.
Exh. catalogue Fault Lines with essay by Deanna Petherbridge.
2015
Interviewed by Eileen Budd for Redbird Review.
2014
Catalogue covering all exhibitions and projects at ParisCONCRET.
2013
Exh. catalogue Malerei with essay by Kate Andrews.
2012
Art Fair catalogue The Solo Project - Basel.
Exh. catalogue DPS with essay by Gina Wall.
2010
Herald – preview of exhibition DPS.
Santa Fe Art in Review - review of Colour of Home.
Interviewed by Bob Ross for KSFR Radio Santa Fe.
2009
Exh. catalogue Anonymous Drawings.
Exh. catalogue Colour Light Space with essay by Daniel Herrmann.
