Eric Rippert is a visual artist mining poignant personal imagery; investigating those particular remembrances that never appear in full focus, triggering intuition, and exploring the complex intersections of individual and collective memory. His work resides in the permanent collections of Cleveland Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland Clinic Art Program, and Dalad Collection at Worthington Yards. Exhibited internationally, Eric has had solo exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Progressive Art Collection, and Maria Neil Art Project, along with curated shows at Cleveland Museum of Art, Minnesota Center for Photography, City Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic, and Ludwig Museum in Budapest, Hungary. He received his MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College of Fine Arts and his BFA in Photography from Rochester Institute of Technology. For years, Eric practiced commercial photography in New York before relocating to the Midwest where he taught photography at University of Akron, Oberlin College and Baldwin-Wallace University. Eric began to exhibit his paintings in 2016 with shows at American Greetings, BAYarts, University Hospitals Triennial Invitational, CAN 18 Triennial, and the 2019 Biennial Juried Exhibition at Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery.
