Erin Shirreff (born 1975) is a Canadian artist who works primarily in photography, sculpture, and video.
Early life and education
Shireff was born in 1975 in Kelowna, British Columbia.
Shirreff received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Victoria in
Visual Arts. She received her Masters of Fine Arts in
Sculpture from the Yale University School of Art.
Solo exhibitions
Awards
In 2005, Shirreff received The Hayward Prize for Fine Arts from The Austrian-American Foundation.
[ "New York Close Up: A Documentary Series on Art and Life in the City. Art21. Retrieved March 8, 2016.] In 2011, Shirreff was the recipient of both The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant. She has also won the Aimia/AGO Photography Prize from the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Collections
Shirreff's work is included in the collection of the Guggenheim Museum, New York,
the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
