Born 1957 in New York
Currently resides in Chevy Chase, MD
EDUCATION
1973-77 University of Pennsylvania
1972-73 Art Students League
1972-73 Greenwich House School of Pottery (scholarship)
1970-71 Pratt Institute (scholarship)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Circular Reasoning, The Dadian Gallery, Washington D.C.
2010 Metastable Couples , Perihelion Arts, Phoenix, AZ
2009 If Loving You is Wrong I Don't Want to be Right, Perihelion Arts , Art Fair 21, Cologne, Germany
2009 Holding Ones Breath May Induce Hypoxia, Billy Shire Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Orbs, Bridge Art Fair New York, Perihelion Arts
2008 My Double Life, The Conference Room Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
2008 Orbs, Gallery Imperato, Baltimore, MD
2008 My Double Life, Heineman-Myers Contemporary Art, Bethesda, MD
2006 Down the Rabbit Hole, Aidan Savoy Gallery, New York, NY
2006 Through the Looking Glass, Heineman-Myers Contemporary Art, Bethesda, MD
2006 Augustine, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Lewis Carroll, Perihelion Arts, Phoenix, AZ
2003 New Works, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Mental Landscapes, Arts Club of Washington, Washington, DC
1993 Harmony in Plywood, Friendship Gallery, Chevy Chase, MD
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Gormley Gallery, Periphery, Baltimore, MD
2009 A Diverse Matter, Spectrum Studios, Staunton, VA
2008 Mixology I Painting and Works on Paper @ Curators Office
2008 Sondheim Prize semifinalists, Meyerhof Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2008 Red Dot Fair New York, Gallery Imperato
2008 WPA Auction, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington DC
2007 Bridge Art Fair with Perihelion Arts, Miami, FL
2007 Everything but the Kitschen Sync curated by Billy Shire, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Colorfield REMIX: SATURATED, Heineman-Myers Contemporary Art, Bethesda, MD
2007 Affordable Art Fair,with Julio Valdez Studios
2007 Deck, Molten Brothers, Phoenix, AZ
2006 Fresh Paint, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA
2006 Undertow 2 curated by Alix Sloan, Roq la Rue Gallery, Seattle, WA
2006 Lewis Carroll's Slippery Spirits (with "Anti-Musings," by Gidget Gein), Clair Obscur Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Undertow curated by Alix Sloan, Metalstone Gallery, New York, NY
2006 Everything but the Kitschen Sync curated by Billy Shire, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Janus curated by Sarah Tanguy, Maryland Arts Place, Baltimore, MD
2005 Parallel Universe curated by Francesco LoCastro, Miami, FL
2005 Culture Shock: Art of the New Movement curated by Francesco LoCastro, Miami, FL
2005 The Landscape of the Body, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Group show curated by Annie Adjchavanich, Hickock Warner Cole, Washington DC
1996 Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, Laurel, MD
1996 The Spectrum: Black & White curated by Chris French, Washington DC
1995 John Wilson Center, Washington DC
1995 Art Initiatives, New York, NY
1995 Looking Good, Feeling Good curated by Michael Ashkin, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Fifth Column, Washington DC
1995 Group show curated by Chris Addison & Sylvia Ripley, Greater Reston Art Center, Reston, VA
1994 Coastal Center for the Arts, St Simons Island, GA
1994 Last Decade, Gallery 57, Los Angeles, CA
1994 Arts & Heritage, Westmoreland, PA
1994 901 E St, Washington DC
1994 Dreams, Legends and Folklore, A Salon, Washington DC
1994 Still Life, A Salon, Washington DC
1994 Georges County Traveling Show curated by Debra Willis
PUBLICATIONS
2008 Dawson, Jessica. “At Heineman Myers, Celebrity Treatment”, Washington Post (March 14)
2008 “Eric Finzi’s My Double Life”, Washington Post, Style on the Go (March 1)
2007 Zajac, Mary K. “Chaos Theory, How Eric Finzi directs - and Delights in - His Unruly Art”, Maryland Life Magazine (Sept/Oct)
2007 CultureCatch.com, Video Podcast featuring Eric Finzi
2007 Cudlin, Jeffry. Hatchets and Skewers (January 12)
2007 Mellema, Kevin. “North Virginia Art Beat”, Falls Church News Press (January 4)
2006 Young, Amy. “Eric Finzi, Artist Interview”, Coagula Art Journal # 81, (pg. 26-27)
2006 “Modern Meets MoCo”, Washington Post, Montgomery Extra (June 29)
2006 Tanguy, Sarah. “Janus: Today is Tomorrow’s Past”, exh. cat. Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
2006 Beckman, Rachel. “The Surgeon's Canvases”, Washington Post (July 6)
2006 Leibel , Aaron. “Master of Two Worlds”, Washington Jewish Week (July 10)
2006 Sullivan, Victoria. “Eric Finzi: Slipping into the Liquid World of Lewis Carroll”, Culture Catch (June 27)
2006 McCabe, Bret. “What's in a Name?”, Baltimore City Paper (April 12)
2006 Wakefield, Harry. “Eric Finzi, Lewis Carroll”, Art MoCo (March 3)
2006 Cleveland, David. “Augustine: Remembrance of Things Past”, exh. cat. Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Smith, Edward-Lucie. “The Landscape of the Body”, exh. cat. Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Sexton, Elaine. “The Landscape of the Body, Walter Wickiser” ARTnews (October p.168)
2005 Andrews, Scott. “Eric Finzi at Perihelion”, Java Magazine (no. 131, December, p. 16)
2005 Shoebang, Eddie. “In This Chaos, Beauty is Found”, College Times (Dec. 1, p.18)
2005 Potts, Leanne. “Malice in Wonderland:Down the Rabbit Hole at Perihelion”, Phoenix New Times (December 22)
2003 Morgan, Robert C. “Eric Finzi : Tales of Oswego”, exh. cat. Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY
AWARDS
2008 Sondheim Prize, Semi-Finalist