Maria Erikson

Maria Erikson (b. 1985) is an artist living and working in Tallinn. She holds a Master’s degree with an emphasis on printmaking from the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki. Erikson’s practice focuses on dialogue between materials, exploring points of encounter and relationships between the body, stone, and the paper surface. In recent years, her work has been exhibited, among others, at the 19th Tallinn Print Triennial, Neon Gallery in Wrocław, Poland, and in a solo exhibition at GÜ Gallery. She has taught graphic arts at the Estonian Academy of Arts and the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, and previously at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki. Her work has received several awards, including the Eduard Wiiralt Competition Exhibition Incentive Award (2025), the Eduard Wiiralt (2019), and the Ann-Margret Lindell Scholarship (2021, Sweden).