Erika Blumenfeld is an internationally exhibiting artist with a Bachelor of Fine Art in Photography from Parsons School of Design in New York.  In 1994, Blumenfeld moved her studio from New York to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she lived and worked for thirteen years.  She currently resides in Marfa, Texas.

In 1998, inspired by the distinct quality of light that pervades the sky of the southwestern United States, Blumenfeld developed a process whereby natural light is both the medium and the subject of her work. Foregoing the use of a traditional camera, she directly exposes light sensitive photographic papers, films, and digital media to the ever-changing sunlight and moonlight.  The resulting photo-based works and video installations are documentations of light as seen through the cycles of astronomic and atmospheric events.

Blumenfeld's installations have been exhibited widely at galleries, museums and non-profits in the US and Europe, including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York; Ballroom in Marfa, Texas; the Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico; the Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art (CCNOA) in Brussels, Belgium; DiverseWorks Art Space in Houston, Texas; Fargfabriken Norr in Ostersund, Sweden; the Galerie der Stadt Mainz-Bruckenturm in Mainz, Germany; the Hertfordshire University Galleries (UH Galleries) in Hertfordshire, England; Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo, Norway; the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico; the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), in Portland, Oregon; and the Santa Fe Art Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Her work has been featured in Art in America, ARTnews, Arte Contemporary, and Camera Arts magazines, and is included in The Polaroid Book published by Taschen.

Artist website: http://erikablumenfeld.com/