📷 by Linda Brader 

B I O

Erika Lynne Hanson is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and educator based in Phoenix, Arizona. Rooted in textile practices, her projects range from weavings and video installations to participatory workshops that engage sites and their inhabitants, with sustained attention to posthuman ecologies and the material politics of extraction in the American Southwest. Recent exhibitions include Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, and Desert Mirror, a site-responsive solo exhibition at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West. She has conducted research and participated in residencies across the United States and Scandinavia. Hanson is Associate Professor in the School of Art and Associate Director of the Desert Humanities Initiative at Arizona State University.