Maria Erikson

Maria Erikson (b. 1985) is an artist based in Tallinn and Oslo. Her practice explores identity, cultural narratives, and materiality through methodology of craft and process-driven inquiry. She disassembles and reconfigures materials, bodies, and narratives, reimagining familiar and uncertain structures. Themes of temporality and spatial fluidity are central to her work, reflecting an ongoing negotiation between presence, separation, and transformation. Erikson’s work embodies the female experience while probing the broader human condition, bodily presence, and its (un)comfortable affinities. Erikson teaches printmaking at the Estonian Academy of Arts and the Oslo National Academy of Arts. She holds an MFA in printmaking from the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki and a master printer certificate from Tamarind Institute (USA). Recognised with numerous awards – including the Eduard Wiiralt Grant (2021) and Estonian Printmaker of the Year (2023) – her work engages deeply with nature, material entanglements, and shifting boundaries of identity.