Erika Germain (She/Her) is an emerging artist and writer working across painting, ceramics, sculpture, print media, and social practice. She received her BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2018 where she was selected as undergraduate valedictorian and her MFA from Cornell University in 2022. Exhibiting across Canada and the United States, she currently works and lives in Edmonton, AB on Treaty 6 Territory.

Erika’s artwork and writing investigate themes of language, translation, community, religion, ritual, and exchange. Working across these explorations she considers how we are able to make and share meaningful connections through language and art making. Developing a process of translation through the systematizing of letters to colours, her work revolves around the balance of practices that are intuitive, obsessive and devotional, as well as systematized and structured. These material and conceptual explorations are used to construct the contexts for social practice based events of exchange and collaboration. Immersed in the visual structures of language, the poetics of conversation, the economies of love and intimacy, and the rituals that surround these, she investigates the ways in which we are able to genuinely create communities with one another.