About

Erica Quinn is an interdisciplinary artist working across analog photography, moving image, experimental filmmaking, sound, music, and poetry. Her practice investigates the emotional architecture of place—how memory, loss, longing, and impermanence become embedded within landscapes, built environments, and the body.

Working with expired film, field recordings, improvised sound, archival fragments, text, and collaborative performance, Quinn creates layered sensory environments that blur documentation and dream. Her work often inhabits liminal spaces: thresholds between presence and absence, intimacy and distance, remembering and forgetting. Through image, sound, and language, she explores what remains after rupture—what echoes, decays, and persists.

Deeply rooted in listening as both methodology and ritual, Quinn’s practice is shaped by attentiveness to the frequencies already present within a space: ambient noise, silence, memory, resonance, and relational energy. Her work asks how art might function as excavation, translation, and collective witnessing.

Alongside her studio practice, Quinn is the founder of River Quartz Collective, an interdisciplinary creative and cultural strategy practice supporting artists, communities, and organizations in activating place-based assets and building thriving cultural ecosystems.

Her work has been supported through residencies and exhibitions including programs with U.S. National Parks, Borland Project Space, and Pedantic Arts Residency. Quinn holds a B.A. in Photography & Literature from Juniata College and an M.F.A. in Photography from Pratt Institute.