Erik Hanson (b. Toyko, Japan) is a New York-based artist working in painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and needlepoint. 

Since 1978, Hanson has been teaching himself new mediums in an effort to make ethereal phenomena lay flat and still within the four corners of a visual field. His work is often a result of ongoing attempts to capture fleeting sensations appended to his own synthesia.  

Hanson’s work has been shown at MoMA/PS1, Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen, the New Museum, Sculpture Center, Participant, and Marlborough Contemporary.

SELECT Exhibitions

• BRAINBOW, Shelter Gallery, New York, 2021

• Omniscient, Leslie Lohman Museum of Art,  New York, Curated By Avram Finkelstein, 2021

• We Must…, Zurcher, New York, Curated by Ernesto Renda, 2020

• Friends and Family, Peter Mendenhall, Los Angeles, Curated by Keith Mayerson, 2020

• Two Years of Bluto, Marlborough Contemporary, New York, 2020

• Vernacular Environments 3, Edward Cella, Los Angeles, 2019

• Pack den Badeanzug Ein, Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin, 2019

• Pride: Stonewall 50, Postmasters, New York, Curated By Ruben Natal-San Miguel, 2019