EXHIBITIONS

2025  “Art Now” Mixed Media Space, North Adams, MA

2024  “Drawing as Discovery,” Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

2019  “A Time For Action-Washington Artists Circa 1989” George Washington University, Wash. DC

2014  “Washington Art Matters 1940s-1980s,” American University Museum, Wash. DC

2013  “Banned in D.C., Ventana 244 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2009  “Not New Work,” San Francisco Museum of Art, SF, CA

2007  “BIG”, Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC

1993  "Old Sheet,” Site Specific Installation, CAC, North Adams, MA

1991  "Open"- Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA

1989  "30 Years Later"- Gallery K, Washington DC

1986  "Jefferson Place Gallery Show"- 406 Galleries, Washington DC

1986  "Earth Views"- National Air & Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Wash. DC

1984  "Sited Toward the Future, Proposals for Public Sculpture in Arlington  

 County"- Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA

1984  "Washington Sculpture"-Georgetown Court Artists' Space, Washington DC

1982  "Atlantic Coast-Pacific Coast"- CA College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA

1982  "Hanover"- Osuna Gallery, Washington DC

1980  "Forty American Sculptors"- XII International Sculpture Conference, Wash. DC

1980  "Drawings-13 Washington Sculptors"-Diane Brown Gallery, Wash. DC

1979  "Washington Artists at HEW"- HEW, Washington DC

1979  "Outdoor Sculpture; City Art '79"- Studio Gallery, Washington DC

1979  "35 Washington Painters"- Washington Project for the Arts, Wash. DC

1979  "Second Annual Invitational Sculpture Show"- Art Barn, Washington DC

1978  "Outdoor Sculpture '78"- Northern Virginia Community College, Annadale, VA

1978  "Art '78, Washington"- Fellus Gallery, Washington DC

1977  "Eight Washington Artists"- George Meany Center for Labor Studies, MD

1976  "Collectibles"- Polo Gallery, Washington DC

1976  "Corcoran School of Art, Selected Faculty Show"-Corcoran Gallery, Wash. DC

1975  "Recent Acquisitions-Drawings and Prints"-National Collection of Fine 

 Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

1973  "Group Show"- Kingpitcher Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

1973  "Drawings and Small Works"-Washington Gallery of Art, Washington DC

1971  "Group Show"- O.K. Harris Gallery, New York, NY

1971  "Group Show"- St. Mary's College, St. Mary, MD

1970  "Washington 20 Years"- Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

1967  "Group Show"- Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington DC

1967  "Eight Washington Artists"- Jewish Community Center, Washington DC

1966  "Eric Rudd  & Valerie Hollister"-Jefferson Place Gallery, Washington DC

1965  "Group Show"- Charles Street Gallery, Baltimore, MD

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2024   Berkshire Art Museum, North Adams, MA Never-Before-Seen, Selections from the Permanent Collection: 

 Four Big Collages, Plant-Based Organics, Crate Series & Ontogens, Relief Composition Series

2014   Berkshire Art Museum, North Adams, MA Early Work of Eric Rudd - 1966-1980 Berkshire Artist Museum, 

 North Adams, MA

2010  Chapters: A Literary Exhibition, Art Space, North Adams, MA

2005  Blue Space, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

2005  Art Space, North Adams, MA

2002  New England School of Art and Design, Suffolk University, Boston, MA

2001  A Chapel for Humanity, North Adams, MA

1996   Dark Ride Project, North Adams, MA

1994   Public Art Gallery Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan

1989   Ten Years, O Street Studios, Washington DC

1981   Diane Brown Gallery, Washington DC

1979   Grace Muchmore Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1979   Ontogens: Diane Brown Gallery, Washington DC

1977   Fraser's Stable Gallery, Washington DC

1975   Jefferson Place Gallery, Washington DC

1973   Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC

1973   Jefferson Place Gallery, Washington DC

1971   Hood College, Frederick, MD

1971   Jefferson Place Gallery, Washington DC

1969  Jefferson Place Gallery, Washington DC

1994  Japan Foundation Artists Fellowship

1967  National Endowment for the Arts Artists Fellowship 

1966  Second Prize in Painting, Emilio Vedova, International Academy of Fine 

 Arts, Salzburg, Austria

Founding Director, Contemporary Artists Center- Berkshire School of Contemporary

 Art - North Adams, MA 1990-1999

(Founding) Board of Directors, Washington Sculptors Group 1982-90

Certified Foam Mechanic, Gusmer Corporation, 1974

Film:  "Foaming, with Eric Rudd" 1977 Alison Rose

Film:  "Eric Rudd, Sculptor" 1987 America Today, USIA

Founder/Creator of "O Street Studios"- Washington DC 1978-2003

Founder/Creator of Beaver Mills Mill Artist Studios, North Adams, MA 1990-

Founder/Creator of Eclipse Mill Artist Studio Lofts, North Adams, MA 2002-03

San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA

Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL

Allentown Museum of Art, Allentown, PA

National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

American University, Washington DC

Institute of Policy Studies, Washington DC

Westinghouse Corporation, Washington DC

The Menil Collection, Houston, TX

Gulf Texas Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA

Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA

Prudential Insurance Company, Hartford, CT

Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE

The Assassin’s New Clothes (novel)

A Short Seminar on Becoming a Serious Artist (ebook)

The Butterfly Conspiracy (novel)

Heaven’s Last Call (novel)

Strategies for Serious Older Artists (book)

Maple Syrup and Fish Sauce (novel)

Wet Paint (play), 

The Art World Dream – Alternative Strategies for Working Artists, (book)

The Art Studio/Loft Manual – For Ambitious Artists and Creators (book),

Numerous plays, illustrated children’s books, articles, films, interviews (list upon request).

GGeneral Electric Co., G.E. Plastics, Polymer Processing Development Center (Advanced Materials), 1987, 1988, 1991. 

Blow-molding Plastics in Japan 1994, and at Sabic Innovative Plastics 2011

Instructor (Drawing, Mixed Media) Corcoran School of Art 1970-76 

Instructor, Graduate School, U.S.D.A. 1971-78 

Instructor, Berkshire School of Contemporary Art 1990-99 

Guest Artist, Panelist and Lecturer at Universities and Arts Organizations in the U.S., Europe, Asia- list upon request.