Eric N. Mack (b. 1987, Columbia, MD) lives and works in New York, NY. He refers to himself as a painter, yet his works rarely observe the medium’s traditional canvas-to-stretcher format. His use of color, form and material as elements in a compositional lexicon situate the origin of his practice in the investigation of painting in an expanded field, using stained or dyed fabrics as his principal medium. In April 2021, Mack was awarded the Rome Prize by the American Academy in Rome, Italy.

Select solo exhibitions include Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY (2023); Lemme walk across the room, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale FL (2022); Lemme walk across the room, Brooklyn Museum, NY (2019); In austerity, stripped from its support and worn as a sarong, The Power Station, Dallas, TX (2019); the BALTIC Artists’ Award 2017, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (2017); and Eric Mack: Vogue Fabrics, Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (2017). Major group exhibitions include the Whitney Biennial 2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; Ungestalt, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2017); In the Abstract, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, MA (2017); Blue Black, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO (2017); Making & Unmaking: An exhibition curated by Duro Olowu, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK (2016); and Greater New York 2015, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY (2015). Mack will have a one-person exhibition at the Wexner Center for the Arts, OH (August 22, 2025 – January 11, 2026). Mack’s work is in the permanent collections of Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

He received his BFA from The Cooper Union, NY and his MFA from Yale University, CT. In 2017, Mack was the recipient of the inaugural BALTIC Artists’ Award selected by artist Lorna Simpson and completed the Rauschenberg Residency in Captiva Island, FL and an artist-in-residency at Delfina Foundation in London, UK.