WCSU M.F.A. VISITING ARTIST LECTURE WITH ERIC AHO, PAINTER:
Wed, April 3, 2024, 11 a.m.

Visual & Performing Arts Center, Room 144, WCSU Westside campus
Free & Open to the Public, Limited Seating Available
RSVP required. Reserve a spot here.

Eric Aho is a painter who lives and works in Saxtons River, VT. He studied at the Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design in London and received a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. In 1989, he participated in the first exchange of scholars in over thirty years between the U.S. and Cuba. He completed his graduate work at the Lahti Art Institute in Finland on a Fulbright Fellowship in 1991-92 and an American-Scandinavian Foundation grant in 1993.

Aho’s works have been exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad. Currently represented by DC Moore Gallery in NYC, he has had 7 solo exhibitions there from 2009 to 2022. He has also had several museum shows, including the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, the Hood Museum of Art, and Portland Art Museum. In 2016, the New Britain Museum of American Art presented “Eric Aho: An Unfinished Point in a Vast Surrounding,” which comprised over 50 paintings of the French landscape exploring the path of his father’s experience in WW II.

In 2009, Aho was elected to the National Academy Museum. He is a recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant; the John Koch Award for Painting from the National Academy; and an Artist Residency at the Weir Farm National Historical Park. His works are in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The New York Public Library; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; New Britain Museum of American Art; Denver Art Museum; and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, among others.