Erin Harmon was raised in the suburbs of Southern California where the natural desert is sated by hundreds of miles of aqueducts to produce obsessively groomed lawns. After graduating from San Diego State University with a Bachelor degree in Studio Art in 2000, she received her MFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design in 2003. Erin currently lives and works in the verdant and fecund Tennessee Delta, where kudzu and coal sludge can swallow everything in their path. Erin has exhibited her work nationally in both group and solo exhibitions including Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia PA; the Sarah Doyle Gallery, Providence, RI; Atlanta Artists Center & Gallery, GA; Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN; The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN; and TSA Los Angeles, CA. In fall 2014, Erin debuted her first theatrical set design for Ballet Memphis’ River Project: Moving Currents. She is Associate Professor of Art and Chair for the Department of Art and Art History at Rhodes College.