Eric N. Mack

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Eric N. Mack
Born
Eric National Mack [1]

1987
Education The Cooper Union
BFA, 2010
Yale School of Art
MFA, 2012 [2]

Eric National Mack (born 1987, Columbia, Maryland) is an American painter, multi-media installation artist, and sculptor, based in New York City. [3] [4]

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Early life and education

Mack was born in Columbia, Maryland. His middle name is National, after Washington DC's National Gallery of Art—where his parents met. [5] At an early age, Mack worked for his father at his discount clothing store interacting with a spectrum of fashions and fabrics. [6] Mack's fabric collages often include a spectrum of materials such as moving blankets, bandanas, and other found or locally sourced fabrics. [3]

Mack received his BFA from The Cooper Union in 2010 and his MFA from Yale in 2012. In a 2019 interview with Mahfuz Sultan for PIN-UP Magazine , he is quoted stating that he made most of his work outside while at Yale. [7]

Exhibitions and residencies

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Residencies

Public collections

Selected bibliography

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  12. Prime : art's next generation. Rebecca Morrill, Simon Hunegs. London. 2022. ISBN   978-1-83866-244-8. OCLC   1280599532.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
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