Eric Rippert

Eric Rippert is a visual artist embracing the vernacular of popular culture while drawing on the remembrances of childhood in order to trigger intuition and explore complex intersections of individual versus collective memory. The resulting artifacts are deconstructed and recontextualized as symbolic visual elements and form a critical reimagining of the American Dream.

His work resides in the permanent collections of Cleveland Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland Clinic Art Program, and Summa Health Art Collection. Exhibited internationally, Eric has had solo exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Progressive, and Maria Neil Art Project, along with curated shows at Cleveland Museum of Art, Minnesota Center for Photography, City Gallery in Prague, and Ludwig Museum in Budapest.

He received his Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art from Vermont College of Fine Arts and his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Rochester Institute of Technology. For years, Eric practiced commercial photography in New York before relocating to the Midwest where he taught photography at University of Akron, Oberlin College, and Baldwin Wallace University.

Eric began to exhibit his paintings in 2016 with shows at Arc Gallery in San Francisco, Water Street Studios in Chicago, SPACE Gallery in Pittsburgh,CAN Triennial 22, the 2019 Biennial Juried Exhibition at Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery, CAN Triennial 18, University Hospitals Triennial Invitational, BAYarts, American Greetings headquarters, and Cleveland Museum of Art at Transformer Station.