e r i c a  s c h r e i n e r - v i d e o / p e r f o r m a n c e  a r t i s t - BIO

Erica Schreiner is an experimental video artist, performance artist, writer, actor and model from Portland, Oregon. She attended the Art Institute of Portland (2002-2005) where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in graphic design. While in Portland, Erica became known for her weekly video installations, character performances and involvement in the zine community.

Erica is best known for her work as the character, Skye. In collaboration with filmmaker, Christopher Tenzis, The Skye Project presents the lonely yet hopeful world of the ambiguously fictional, highly developed, plucky, pink-haired girl. Erica and Chris worked together to create a virtual world through photography-storyboard blogs, movies, performance and poetry.

After self-publishing and art directing her own magazine, Luminous, as well several zines, she gave seminars at Portland State University’s Pop Culture classes on the art of self-publishing.

In January of 2009, Erica went on to create her own publishing label, Analog Cinema, where she published her own book of short stories, Hellos and Goodbyes.

Erica is also a co-founder of the online arts collective, Lucid Unison, founded with Brian Gibson, Adrian Vitou and Zach Reed. Established in 2008 the site now daily showcases the work of eleven artists. Lucid Unison also released a book of their work from July 2009.

In February 2009, Erica moved to Olympic National Park where she lived in the rainforest, in isolation, and wrote her first movie script. She currently lives in New York City where she interns for artist, Michael Mandiberg at Eyebeam: Art and Technology Center and apprentices for Warhol Superstar, Ultra Violet.

erica schreiner © 2010