Eric Gottesman

ABOUT/Contact ABOUT/Bio Projects/ABUL THONA BARAKA with Sudden Flowers Projects/Reenactments in Zebqine Collaborations/WE HAVE WOVEN THE MOTHERLANDS…
with Toleen Touq Projects/THE PRESERVATION OF TERROR Projects/STUDIO KARMEN with Ahmed Sefferini Projects/LAUGHING COMPETITION Collaborations/PICTURES WOKE PEOPLE UP
with Wendy Ewald Book/MOBILE STUDIO with Sudden Flowers Collaborations/MY STORY TO TELL
with Appalshop Media Institute Projects/WHO WOULD I BE IF NOT WHO I AM Projects/IF I COULD SEE YOUR FACE Projects/SPECTRAL EVIDENCE Projects/THE OROMAYE PROJECT (in process) Projects/COMMISSION Videos/UNFINISHED (1951-2012) Videos/YABAT IDA LE LIJ with Sudden Flowers (2007) PRESS Projects/SILENCE or BREATHING ROOM Projects/PARABLES Videos/ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL (2012) Book/Sudden Flowers Work/Photographs Work/Videos Work/Installations Book/Sudden Flowers - Special Edition Sudden Flowers (1999-2014)/Sudden Flowers, The Book (2014) Sudden Flowers (1999-2014)/Photographs (1999-2014) Sudden Flowers (1999-2014)/Yabat Ida Le Lij (2006) Pictures Woke The People Up (2007-2013)/We Are Talking About Life And Culture (2009) Pictures Woke The People Up (2007-2013)/Innu Online Picture Archive (2010) Pictures Woke The People Up (2007-2013)/Unfinished (1951|2012) Pictures Woke The People Up (2007-2013)/Addison Gallery of American Art (2012) The Oromaye Projects (2011- )/Project Description The Oromaye Projects (2011- )/Oromaye Workshops (2015-16) Other projects/Zebqine Reenactments (2007) Sudden Flowers (1999-2014)/Abul Thona Baraka (2006) The Oromaye Projects (2011- )/The Preservation of Terror (2009) The Oromaye Projects (2011- )/Scramble for the Sky (2016) The Oromaye Projects (2011- )/Introduction (2012) The Oromaye Projects (2011- )/The Actor (2012) The Oromaye Projects (2011- )/Chapter One (2012) Other projects/Parables (2003) The Oromaye Projects (2011- )/Colonel's Mirror (2016) Sudden Flowers (1999-2014)/If I Could See Your Face (1999-2004) Sudden Flowers (1999-2014)/Laughing Competition (2006) Other projects/My Story To Tell (2009) Sudden Flowers (1999-2014)/Mobile Photo Studio (2004) Colonial Effects (2006- )/We Have Woven (2011) Colonial Effects (2006- )/J_____ Is Not A Country (2006- ) Colonial Effects (2006- )/Another Beautiful (2011) For Freedoms (2016- )/Project Description Sudden Flowers (1999-2014)/Project Description Colonial Effects (2006- )/Project Description Pictures Woke The People Up (2007-2013)/Project Description Colonial Effects (2006- )/It Is Promised (And Written)

Bio

Eric Gottesman teaches, organizes, writes, and makes artworks with other people that address nationalism, migration, structural violence, history, and intimate relations. He is a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, a Creative Capital Artist, a Fulbright Fellow, a co-founder of For Freedoms (an artist-led organization that centers art as a catalyst for creative civic engagement), and he co-created the books Sudden Flowers (2014) and For Freedoms: Where Do We Go From Here? (2024). Gottesman is a mentor in the Arab Documentary Photography Program in Beirut, Lebanon, and the W.W. Corcoran Visiting Professor in Community Engagement at George Washington University.