Eric Erickson is a painter and printmaker whose career encompasses abstract painting, monotypes and works on paper. He earned his B.F.A. (1976) from Miami University in Ohio and his M.F.A. (1978) from the University of California, Davis. That same year, he exhibited at Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco, beginning a career that has included exhibitions throughout California, New York and internationally. His work was featured in American Abstraction: Four Currents at Louis Meisel Gallery in New York (1985) and Collaborations in Monotype at the University of California, Santa Barbara (1988). His work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Smithsonian Institution's Robert Blackburn Print Collection; and the United States Department of State. Erickson received a National Endowment for the Arts award in 1981 and Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants in 1986 and 2014. He continues to exhibit, including a 2019 solo exhibition at the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum.