Erica van Zon

This was also evidenced in van Zon's 2016 exhibition Opal Moon, Local Lime at the Sarjeant Gallery. Works in this show took the form of empty window frames and trellises, on which other works were hung. The mixed media artwork in this show also demonstrated van Zon's linked chain of thinking and making, many works related to the next, and formed a visual map of van Zon's time spent in Whanganui as the Tylee Cottage Resident.

Her artworks are held in the collections of the Dowse Art Museum, the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Sarjeant Gallery, and Wellington City Council. In 2011 she travelled to Beijing for the Wellington City Council / Asia New Zealand WARE Residency; in 2014 she was the Dunedin Public Art Gallery's Visiting Artist in Resident; and in 2016 she undertook the Tylee Cottage Residency in Whanganui.

Erica van Zon completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Auckland University of Technology in 2001. Following this, she studied at the Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland, completing a Masters in Fine Arts in 2008.

Erica van Zon (born 1979) is an artist from New Zealand.

Her installation at the Dowse Art Museum Coffee Perhaps, for example, was inspired by Helen Hitchings, a gallerist in 1950s New Zealand who ran the country's first modernist dealer gallery. This installation combined elements of stained glass, printed scarves, sculpted wood, painted walls, and a famous Toss Woollaston painting recreated in embroidery. As evidenced in this show, modes of presentation—shelves, plinths, wall hanging apparatuses—are part of van Zon's artwork and carefully considered in relation to the exhibition as a whole.