Interdisciplinary artist working with fiber, textiles, and craft.

Rotterdam / Amsterdam

If it was a snake it would've bit me

2025

quilt, bedsheets from my late grandmother’s house, other secondhand textiles including
Indonesian batik and ikat woven textiles, red thread, plastic heart beads
66 × 70 cm

Botanical quilt 1

2026

whole-cloth quilt, eco-printed cotton, secondhand fabric, cotton batting
96 × 50 cm

In the Grid

2026

Quilting, applique, hand-embroidery, weaving
secondhand textiles, fabric dye, glass Mardi Gras beads, wool and cotton thread, cotton batting
112 × 68 cm & 177 × 73 cm,
diptych

WORK

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Erin C. Doherty Portfolio

CURRENT

Summer Canteen #3

2026

Communal Indonesian-American meal in collaboration with Shuang Xu & Seesaw Studio
textile installation, inherited batik tablecloths, storytelling performance
Seesaw Studio, Rotterdam, NL
Photo: Jennifer Carniel

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Summer Canteen #3

Fiber Art Studio: Intro to Hand-Quilting: Mini Intuitive Quilts

2025

hand-quilting workshop, intuitive and improvisational making, Gee’s Bend-inspired practice
Fiber Art Studio, Broedplaats VKG, Studio 2.59, Volkshotel, Amsterdam, NL
Photo: Raven Kiss

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ABOUT

Erin C. Doherty (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily with fiber, textiles, and craft. Originally from New Orleans, she is based in Rotterdam with a studio in Amsterdam.

Her practice explores migration, cultural memory, inherited identity, labor, and material histories through quilting, hand embroidery, sewing, natural dyeing, and other handmade processes. Working with secondhand and inherited textiles, she considers materials as carriers of memory and traces of use, care, and cultural transmission.

Education
2016 — BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2023 — MFA Visual Arts & Post-Contemporary Practice, St. Joost School of Art and Design

CV

ERIN C. DOHERTY



Interdisciplinary Artist | Textiles, Quilting & Material Practice
Rotterdam / Amsterdam, Netherlands





UPCOMING


2027
Winter Artist in Residence, Penland School of Craft, Bakersville, NC, USA
Fellowship Recipient





SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, RESIDENCIES & PROJECTS


2026
Summer Canteen, Guest Artist & Food Practitioner, Seesaw Studio, Rotterdam, NL
Friendship Quilt Workshop Series & Community Artwork, De Voorkamer, Utrecht, NL2025
Weave Wave: Material Agencies in Motion, Central Slovak Gallery, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
Narrative Quiltmaking Spring Concentration, Penland School of Craft, Bakersville, NC, USA
Ancestral Lines, Coral Springs Museum of Art, Coral Springs, FL, USA2024
Focus on Fibers, Menino Arts Center, Boston, MA, USA
Limburg Biënnale, Oda Park, Venray & Marres, Maastricht, NL
DIVE Festival, De Doelen, Rotterdam, NL2023
MINI Textile Triennial, Sofia, Bulgaria
Poznań Textile Biennale, Mała Scena UAP Gallery, Poznań, Poland
Adrift, A Shift, Willem Twee Kunstruimte, ’s-Hertogenbosch, NL
Wireless Exhibition, PLATO Gallery, Évora, Portugal
Kunstkollektivet8b Textile Artist Residency, Nykøbing Sj, Denmark





EDUCATION


2021–2023
MFA, Visual Arts & Post-Contemporary Practice
St. Joost School of Art and Design, ’s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands2012–2016
BFA, Interdisciplinary Visual Arts & Advanced Painting
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA





TEACHING & PUBLIC PRACTICE


2026–present
Teaching Artist & Facilitator, Friendship Quilt Workshop Series, De Voorkamer, Utrecht, NL2025–present
Co-Founder & Teaching Artist, Fiber Art Studio, Amsterdam, NL
Textile workshops, collective learning, sustainable material practices, and public programming.2026
Guest Artist & Food Practitioner, Summer Canteen, Seesaw Studio, Rotterdam, NL





SELECTED SUPPORT


2027
Fellowship, Penland School of Craft Winter Residency2025
Mondriaan Fonds support and Fellowship, Penland School of Craft Narrative Quiltmaking Spring Concentration









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Erin C. Doherty CV

CONTACT

EMAIL →
[email protected]
INSTAGRAM →
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Business Card Design

2026

Hand-stitched textile business card with contact information.

hand embroidered, beaded, and quilted
indigo dyed fabric made with Raven Kiss, second hand fabric, glass Mardi Gras beads, found pink bugle beads, cotton batting
13 x 35 cm