ERIKA NINA SUÁREZ
Born: 1993, West Palm Beach, Florida
Lives in Budapest, Hungary
EDUCATION
2019 B.F.A., University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2024-2026 M.A., Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest, HU
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Photo Fringe Collectives Hub, Phoenix Artspace, Brighton, UK
2024 Rethinking Eastern Europe, Arles, France
2024 Rethinking Eastern Europe, Photobook Cafe, London, UK
2022 Fish Stories, SP/N Gallery, Dallas, TX
2021 GCPL Photo Annual, Gwinnett County Public Library, GA
2021 REPRESENT Series Intersections, Texas Woman’s University
2021 La Ofrenda, May Street Studio, Fort Worth, TX
2021 Rio Brazos Juried Exhibition, Dora Lee Langdon Center, TX
2021 Decay, Arch, Hanoi, Vietnam
2021 The Family Of, PeepSpace, NY
2020 Joyce Elaine Grant Exhibition, Texas Woman’s University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Család, Artes De La Rosa Cultural Center, Fort Worth, TX
2019 Család, UNT UnionArt Gallery, Denton, TX
AWARDS
2026 Stefan Lengyel Scholarship (shortlisted)
2025 Lenscratch Student Prize, Winner, Honorable Mention
2025 Emerging Talent Awards, Le Book (shortlisted)
2024 RPS 166 International Exhibition, Brighton, UK (shortlisted)
2024 Catchlight Scholarship
2024 MyMA January Grant, Honorable Mention
2021 Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund Grant, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
LECTURES
2024 Rethinking Eastern Europe Panel, Photobook Cafe, London, UK
2021 Behind Photographing Family, Artes De La Rosa Cultural Center, Fort Worth, TX
WORKSHOPS
2025 Mare Nostrum BIP Program, Lanzarote, Spain
2024 NPPA Mentorship Program, Mentee, Alyssa Schukar
2024 Hér og Nú (Here and Now), Ströndin Studio, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
2024 May Open Residency, Cowhouse Studios, Enniscorthy, Ireland
2023 The Creative Body Process Workshop, Dartington, UK
2023 NPPA Women in Visual Journalism Annual Conference, Dallas, TX
ARTIST INTERNSHIPS/WORK-RELATED EXPERIENCE
2024 Assistant, Siân Davey, Photo London
2021 -2024 Lighting Tech, Aggie Brooks Photography
2021-2024 Studio Assistant, Randy Gentry Photography
COMMISSIONED WORK
2026 Viktor Orbán Could Actually Lose, The Atlantic
2026 The Hardest Job in Europe, The Atlantic
2026 In "Orbánistan", everything is power, corruption, and lies, Les Jours
2026 Hungary is in a mess, it's Orbán's fault, Les Jours
2026 Between Light Hungary and Dark Hungary, Les Jours
2025 Rod Dreher Thinks the Enlightenment Was a Mistake, The Atlantic
2024 Unclaimed Body Program, Fort Worth Report
2024 Texas is a Young State, The Texas Standard
2024 Village Water Creek Facility, The Texas Tribune
2024 Dr. Opal Lee Welcome Home Ceremony, The Texas Tribune
2023 Meow Wolf Grapevine, Texas Observer
2023 Maverick Factor Billboard Campaign, UT Arlington
2022 Health Workers and Delta Variant, The Wall Street Journal
PUBLICATIONS
Broad Magazine Feature. Broad Magazine, July 18, 2025.
ZIVNE. Zone Magazine. 2025
Ami kinő a csendből – Erika Nina Suárez fotósorozatáról. Designisso, May 30, 2025.
A Second Gaze: The Over It! Edition. Lenscratch, April 5, 2025.
New South: Contemporary Perspectives in Lens-Based Media from the American South. Atlanta Center for Photography, presented at the Atlanta Art Fair, Pullman Yards, Atlanta, GA, October 5, 2024.
12 Contemporary Photographers Rethinking Eastern Europe. Contemporary Lynx, June 24, 2024.
ColorTag Magazine, Vol. IV. ColorTag Magazine, January 4, 2022.
Superpresent, Winter 2022. Superpresent, Vol. 2, No. 1, Winter 2022.
Our Stories. Photo Trouvée Magazine, 2022.
Interview: Erika Suarez’s Perceptions of Intimacy. VAST Magazine, May 31, 2021.
When the Weather Changes. VAST Magazine, March 12, 2021.
So It Goes, Issue No. 10. The Literary Journal of The Kurt Vonnegut Museum & Library, 2021.
Incandescent, A Color Film Zine, Issue 19. Pine Island Press, 2021.
Erika Nina Suarez. Deep Red Press, August 11, 2020.