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Erica Hart is a multidisciplinary artist specializing in painting and performance. Grounded in somatic research, improvisation, and process-based archiving, their work explores embodied experience through gesture-driven mark-making and movement. Known for gestural paintings and performative installations, Hart approaches the body as both subject and medium, engaging themes of sensation, memory, and attentive presence.

Their paintings often start with time-based somatic drawings—field notes that document spatial and emotional engagement. Combining studio practice and performance, these gestural compositions function as abstract maps, sometimes evoking a cartographic quality that traces internal states and movement that explore how the body perceives and engages with its environment.

Hart uses paper and canvas as receptive surfaces, while layering mixed media to give their work a textured, patina-like quality. These layered materials suggest an ongoing dialogue with memory and history. Hart’s visual language is minimal yet expressive, defined by repetition, interruption, and spatial restraint. Influenced by archival studies and somatics, their practice treats the body as a living document—an evolving site of presence, reflection, and meaning-making.

Erica Hart is a visual artist from Tkaronto (Toronto), based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang (Montréal). Hart’s work has been presented in group exhibitions including Rêverie at Art Mûr (2019), In Search of Delicious at Studio XX (2019), and Flash Forward Incubator at Twist Gallery (2014). Other presentations include White Wall Studio in Montréal (2023). Hart is a co-founder and curator of the artist collective Somewhere Shared from 2017 to 2019. Following this active period of exhibition-making, they shifted focus toward graduate studies, specializing in archival research, art preservation, and somatic therapy. They hold a BFA from Concordia University and a Master of Information Studies from McGill University, with additional studies in somatic therapies through The Integrative Psychology Institute and the University of Toronto. This interdisciplinary training continues to inform their studio practice, which integrates body-based methodologies with drawing and painting, expanding their practice through explorations of gesture, movement, and embodied mark-making.