Erika Germain (She/Her) is an emerging artist currently based in amiskwaciywâskahikan on Treaty 6 Territory (otherwise known as Edmonton, Alberta). She received her BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2018 where she was selected as undergraduate valedictorian and her MFA from Cornell University in 2022. Her practice has been situated within the contexts of Vancouver, BC, central New York, New York City and most recently has focused within Alberta, Canada.

Her artwork and writing investigates themes of language, translation, community, religion, ritual, and exchange. Working across an exploration of painting, print media, ceramics, and social practice she considers how we are able to make and share meaningful connections through language and art making. Developing a process of translation through the systematizing of letters to colours, her work revolves around the balance of practices that are intuitive and systematized, as well as obsessive and devotional. These material and conceptual explorations are used to construct the contexts for social practice based events of ritual, exchange, audience participation and collaboration. Immersed in the visual structures of language, the poetics of conversation, the economies of love and intimacy, and the rituals that surround these, she investigates the ways in which we are able to genuinely create communities with one another.