Erika Germain (she/her) is an emerging artist, writer and arts worker, working primarily across painting, ceramics, and social practice. Erika 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. She has exhibited work across Canada and the United States and has situated her practice within the contexts of Vancouver, central New York, and New York City. In 2023 she returned to her home city of Edmonton, AB on Treaty 6 Territory, where she now works and lives. 

in tandem with her art practice, Erika is passionate about supporting and contributing to the local arts community in Edmonton. Throughout the year she works full time as the curatorial supervisor at The Works Art & Design Festival, and runs Family drugs gallery alongside a collective of 7 other artists.

Parallel to her investment in these communities, Erika’s artwork and writing interrogates the methods of sincerity that form communities through themes of language, translation, religion, and exchange. Choreographing practices that are intuitive and inventive as well as structured and devotional, 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 offers her work as an invitation to genuinely create meaningful connections with one another.

Recent accomplishments include selection for Ortega y Gasset Project’s 2025 group exhibition The Pull, in Brooklyn NY, selection for an AFA Visual Arts and New Media Individual Project Grant in 2025, and her 2025 solo exhibition A Hope to Wish For on a Star, at Latitude 53.