Eric Fredericksen

Eric Fredericksen is Head of Public Art at the City of Vancouver, Cultural Services, where he manages the City’s public art policies and programs. He was previously the Waterfront Art Program Manager for the City of Seattle. As the founding director of Western Bridge, Seattle, he organized exhibitions and stewarded commissions from 2004 to 2012. He has curated exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Or Gallery and Artspeak, all in Vancouver; the Noorderzon Festival, Groningen, the Netherlands; and Open Satellite, Bellevue, Washington. He has taught at the University of Washington, and given talks at the University of Victoria; Instant Coffee Light Bar; TBA Festival, Portland; University of Oregon; and the Sommerakademie im Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern.