Erica Hart
1. Paintings
2. Performance
June SequenceMirror Shapes
Foot Drawing, Still Life
Connection Suit
Hugging Project
Liberation
Giving Gifts
Food Mask
Email: contact.ericahart@gmail.com
IG: @erica_hart
ABOUT
Erica Hart is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang (Montréal), working primarily in drawing and painting with integrated performance elements. Their work examines the gestures and rhythms of everyday life, including bodily movement, spatial relationships, and sensory impressions. Hart observes simple actions and rituals such as walking, sensing, listening, and seeing, using drawing and painting to document these moments through abstract mark-making and movement.Hart’s paintings often begin with short, time-based somatic drawings, quick studies documenting how the body moves, responds to its surroundings, observes others in motion, and registers sensation. These drawings act as field notes, capturing gesture, rhythm, and physical engagement, which are then translated into gestural compositions in the studio. The resulting paintings function as abstract maps, tracing patterns of movement and sensation to explore how the body perceives and inhabits its environment.
Hart works primarily on paper and canvas, layering mixed media to create textured, patina-like surfaces. These materials suggest an ongoing dialogue with memory and history. Influenced by archival studies and movement-based therapies, Hart’s practice functions as an observational and documentary inquiry into everyday environments, focusing on the temporality of bodies, gestures, and spatial relations.
Erica Hart is a queer artist from Tkaronto (Toronto), based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang (Montréal). During their BFA at Concordia University, Hart shared work in learning-oriented contexts, a period of experimentation that laid the foundation for their studio practice.
After graduating, they began developing a focused professional practice while pursuing graduate studies at McGill University (Master of Information Studies) and somatic training through The Integrative Psychology Institute and the University of Toronto. This period marked the emergence of their professional artistic practice, allowing Hart to re-engage with drawing and painting through both archival and somatic perspectives. Their work integrates insights from archival care, memory, and material histories with body-focused therapeutic approaches, shaping a practice attentive to gesture, movement, and embodied mark-making.