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Date(s) - 04/19/21
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Eriko Tsogo is a Mongolian American cross-disciplinary artist, art management professional and DACA recipient born on the steppes of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. She is an alumni of Denver School of the Arts, having attained her B.F.A (2012) from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Tufts University. Eriko grew up in Budapest, Hungary and immigrated to the United States with her family in 1999. 

Eriko has had numerous art shows, curatorial projects and art residencies throughout the United States and Mongolia. She has been the recipient of ACE Foundation scholarship (2008-2012), “Juuh” Honorarium by the Mongolian Ministry of Education Culture and Science (2016), Alliance for Artist Communities Fellowship in affiliation with The Joan Mitchell Foundation (2018), Denver Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs Mini Grant (2019, 2020), and City of Denver Office of Equity and Diversity grant (2019). 

Since 2012, Eriko has worked as the Creative Director at the Mongolian Culture and Heritage Center of Colorado, where she oversees education, community engagement, and programming. She is a passionate advocate for advancing racial and cultural justice through the arts. Her animated short film “Tears of the Sky” premiered at the 2019 Colorado Dragon Film Festival. She was a guest speaker at the TEDxMileHigh RESET Adventure “Immigration In America” (Denver, 2018). 

Eriko was one of twenty-five international Mongolian artists selected to be part of “Contemporary Mongolian Art Biennial: Innovating Tradition” (The World Bank in Washington, DC, 2019). She collaborated with Motus Theater for the “UndocuAmerica Performance & Media Project” (Boulder, 2019). Eriko was invited to participate in the 2019 “I Stand With Immigrants” program at the 2019 Miami Art Basel powered by FWD.us. 

In 2021, Eriko and BETART Collective’s interactive art installation “Mongovoo” is due for permanent exhibition at the Meow Wolf Museum in Denver. She has served as Commissioner for the Office of Denver Commission of Cultural Affairs under Mayor B. Hancock from 2019-2020. Eriko is represented internationally by Tappan Collective in Los Angeles. 

You can find more information at: www.erikotsogo.com 

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