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Eron Rauch is an artist, writer, and curator whose projects explore fandom, subculture, video games, virtual worlds, and imaging history. He received his MFA in Photography and Media from the California Institute of the Arts where he now teaches an intermedia photography course alongside his work as a writer in the games industry.
He is the founder of Video Games for the Arts (VGxA), a website dedicated to proving arts professionals with scaffolded introductions to video game-related artworks and criticism. Eron is a member of The Art Newspaper VR/AR/XR review panel and his essays, critical writings, and interviews have been published in eight languages, including venues such as WASD Magazin, and Speigl in Europe; Bijutsu Techo in Japan; and Mechademia, Ready:Set/Zam, and Gamasutra in America; and Photo World in China;
Some of Eron’s curatorial projects include the contemporary photography section of William's College Art Museum's upcoming Repro Japan exhibit; Photo LA’s 2020 history of video game screenshot photography, Screen Knowledges: Origins; and collaborating with Glitch City to curate Night Games for IndieCade 2019.
Eron’s Travels/Land to Die In cycle is one of the earliest art projects to utilize video game screenshots as photographs and has been shown in venues ranging from forests to galleries to technology schools to bedrooms to Second Life. Many of his projects continue this love of using nontraditional venues and platforms to bring different audiences and ideas into conversation with art.
In 2020 Heterotopias published Such is the Power of the Empty Lot, a book exploring photography, video games, and virtual visions of Tokyo.
Because he is a giant music geek, Eron has also art directed/designed/illustrated over 100 albums.
Selected Shows
2021
Repro Japan (group show), Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA (Forthcoming)
2020
Screen Knowledges: Origins (group show), Photo LA Virtual Art Fair
Absurd in the Anthropocene (group show), Barnsdall Gallery Theater, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Night Games (Les Ecrans des Refuse performance), IndieCade, Santa Monica, CA
Creative Underground: Extended Technique, Blue Whale, Los Angeles, CA
2018
A Land To Die In & Other Photographic Travels, Lycée Schuré, Barr, France
We Did the Best We Could With the Knowledge We Had (with M. Earl Williams), Tropical Contemporary, Eugene, OR
2017
Screen Knowledges: Glitch, ETA, Highland Park, CA
The Hall of Fallen Empires, Blue Whale, Los Angeles, CA
2016
A Haunting of Architecture, Compound, Culver City, CA
Bad Fan Museum, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan
Apartment Homes Fake Book, Curve Line Space, Eagle Rock, CA
2015
Valhalla Nocturne, Automata, Los Angeles, CA
Resonant Structures (group show), Blue Whale, Los Angeles, CA
2014
The Fold and its Echo, Minneapolis College Of Art and Design, MN
Try to Forget (group show), Glitter Death, Hollywood, CA
Apartment Homes, Almost Holden Collective, Santa Monica, CA
The Neo-Japonisme Project, Scoops Westside, Los Angeles, CA
Apartment Homes, Blue Whale, Los Angeles, CA
2013
Carrier Pigeon (group show), Gallery Lara, Tokyo, Japan
Seeds Erupted (With Creative Underground Los Angeles), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Apartment Homes, Blue Whale, Los Angeles, CA
Equinox Music (With Creative Underground Los Angeles) Blue Whale, Los Angeles, CA
Garage Artists (group show), The Garage, Los Angeles, CA
Art is the Devil (group show), Blue Whale, Los Angeles, CA
Apartment Homes Fake Book, Towne, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Apartment Homes Fake Book, Blue Whale, Los Angeles, CA
Art + Soul (group show), Nu-Soul Mezz Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011
An Unconventional History (group show), MCAD Main Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
James Philip Ribiat-Finley Arts Endowment (group show), Sancho Gallery, Echo Park, CA
We Heart Japan (group show), Meltdown, Hollywood, CA
2010
You Shall Know Me By My Works, Jazz Tonic, Los Angeles, CA
Wasteland (group show), Renee's Courtyard, Santa Monica, CA
2009
Tribute to Kinji Akagawa (group show), Minneapolis College Of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
Fantasy, Renee's Courtyard, Santa Monica, CA
2008
A Land to Die In, Art Mecho Museum (curated by Christopher Bolton), Second Life (Williams College)
Future In Focus (group show), Santa Monica, CA
Leveling, Eastside Studios Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Arcana, Eastside Studios Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Greater L.A. M.F.A. (group show), CSU Long Beach, CA
Supersonic (group show), Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA
Collisions & Pileups (group show), Armory NW Pasadena, CA
Land To Die In, Eastside Studios gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selected CURATORIAL PROJECTS:
Repro Japan, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA (Forthcoming)
Screen Knowledges: Origins, Photo LA 2020, Virtual Art Fair
Night Games 2019 (with Glitch City), IndieCade, Santa Monica, CA
Screen Knowledges: Glitch, ETA, Highland Park, CA
The Hall of Fallen Empires, Blue Whale, Los Angeles, CA
Resonant Structures - The Art of Orenda Records, Blue Whale, Los Angeles CA
Nora Quinn - Glitter World, Scoops Westside, Los Angeles CA
Public Secrets /Secret Publics, Blue Whale, Los Angeles, CA
Fleeting Projects (Monthly Installation Showcase 2008 - 2011) Renee's Courtyard, Santa Monica, CA
Empty Space, Issues #1-11