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Ruth Erickson

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@rutherickson
Barbara Lee Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, ICA/Boston *all views my own, unless you share them*
  • Art & DIY
  • Following 3.2K
  • Followers 6.1K
  • Engagement 3.33%
  • Avg comments 8

About Ruth Erickson

Ruth Erickson (@rutherickson) is an Art creator on Instagram, also filed under Art & DIY. The account has 6,141 followers and 1,372 published posts. Recent posts average 197 likes and 8 comments, an engagement rate of 3.33%.

Ruth Erickson belongs to the nano tier, the band usually drawn between 1,000 and 10,000 followers. Ruth Erickson follows 3,187 accounts, so the audience is roughly 1.9 times the size of the list followed. Ruth Erickson carries Instagram's verified badge and uses an Instagram professional account. Flinque files Ruth Erickson under Art, with Art & DIY as a secondary category.

The Instagram bio for Ruth Erickson runs to 19 words across 2 lines. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Ruth Erickson dates from May 2026.

1,372 Posts

Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Ruth Erickson, 9 are carousels and 1 is a single image. That mix leans toward carousels. Ruth Erickson has built a substantial archive of 1,372 posts. Against the audience, that is roughly 4.5 followers for each post published. All 10 carry captions, averaging 123 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include work, artists, works, were and many.

Ready for people. “Lucy Raven: Rounds” opening this week at ICA Watershed. This project feels of this space—its histories, shapes, materials, and language—in a way that no other has. I’ve been scheming to bring Lucy’s work to the Watershed for years, and now, thanks to the collaboration of many, it’s happening this summer! The US premiere of two works: a kinetic light sculpture “Hardpan” and a moving image installation “Murderer’s Bar” that records the largest dam demolition and river restoration undertaking in US history. Thank you co-commissioner. Lisson Gallery and especially The ICA dream team, especially project manager extraordinaire and fellow curator. 🔊🌊
Spell-binding work by Lawrence Abu Hamdan as part of his ongoing research into sound. Here, he creates a moving image and sound installation drawing on 15 testimonies from victims of the first known attack on civilians using sound that happened in Belgrade in 2025 during a protest. Everyone knows when they see a masterpiece. I thought about it when I saw Arthur Jafa’s “Love in the Message” again this week. Here’s another one. How exhilarating!
And now ten artists from Koyo Kouoh’s main exhibition of the 61st Venice Biennale whose work I was seeing in person for the first time (that I recall). In addition to plants, ceramics and textiles were everywhere.
1. Kaloki Nyamai based in Kenya made these massive and heavily worked paintings connected to his grandmother’s storytellings and stiching skills
2. Celia Vasquez Yui based in Peru created these amazing ceramic animal sculptures inspired by the beliefs, materials, and techniques of the indigenous Shipibo people, to which the artist belongs
3. London-based Pio Abad (detail) had gorgeous India ink drawings on canvas (I heard Tina Kim Gallery will bring some to Frieze this coming week) and I learned about his work toward the legacy of his aunt Pacita Adad and study of artifacts from his native Philippines held in museum collections.
4. It’s hard to believe I had not seen the work of NYC-based Carrie Schneider but this single photograph blew my mind.
5. Ayrson Heraclito based in Brazil presented metal sculptures and drawings of the Orizias (deities) of the Camdomble religion—a religion that emerged from the convergence of numerous African belief systems in Brazil.
6. Cape Town-based Thania Peterson made this massive embroidered textile tracing the migration of Sufi music.
7. Barbados-based Annalee Davis built this altar from plants in her gardens to grieve the loss of biodiversity.
8. Lisbon-based Uriel Orlow record cross-species communication with trees.
9. These book pages from Toronto-based Bonnie Devine were devastatingly beautiful.
10. My first longer engagement with Paris-based Eric Baudelaire was a mesmerizing poetic journey into the commercial processing of flowers at a factory in the Netherlands.
I thought Koyo Kouoh’s “In Minor Keys,” the main exhibition of the 61st Biennale was very strong. I’ve come to call it the botanical biennale, as plant life, tendrils, roots, threads, earth, and the margins where life takes place were everywhere. I loved the exhibition design by Wolff Architects, who used cardboard throughout as plinth, texture, and eco-friendly material plus a deep indigo blue. These days, I come to Venice as much to be with artists and curators who I know and adore, who I have had the pleasure to work with, and whose work I follow, as I do to be introduced to artists. I hope to always keep that balance of deepening and learning. Here are ten projects by artists I knew coming in and loved what they accomplished!
1. Wangechi Mutu
2. Ebony Patterson and Kambui Olujimi
3. Daniel Lind Ramos
4. Tammy Nguyen (detail)
5. Adebunmi Gbadebo
6. Guadalupe Maravilla
7. Kader Attia (just announced as next curator of the Kochi Biennial!)
8. Rose Salane
9. Nina Katchadourian
10. Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
Igshaan Adams at Guggenheim Bilbao! Stunner! 😲 Congratulations to a golden person and remarkable artist 🫶 Photo by Erika Ede
Today ICA/Boston opens “Derrick Adams: View Master” to the public. Expertly curated by Dexter Wimberly and Tessa Bacchi Haas, it is a dazzling maximalist display of more than 100 works dating from 2000 to 2026. Derrick begins his career as a performance artist, public school teacher, and curator at the DIY art space Rush Arts, and this ethos of experimentalism and populism runs through his expansive practice, as does his joyous and witty engagement with Black culture and self-representation. The title, a reference to the toy redesigned by the industrial designer Charles Harrison, captures how Derrick’s work reflects and refracts what we see, showing back to us lived experiences with humor, joy, critique, and complexity. It is on view all summer at the ICA with exterior works in process. 💕
Happy 40th anniversary MIT List! 🎊 It was such fun to celebrate the birthday of my neighborhood museum! Since moving to Cambridge in 2012, the List and its great curators and staff have introduced me to the work of so many artists through their thoughtful shows and books, always free in their thinking and leading the way for university-affiliated art spaces. Here are some of the memories as photos (despite the cloud having lost 2012-18). Thank you and many others. And especially the inimitable Paul Ha, forever the suave thinker who leads with a meaningful lightness. 💕
Savoring the final days of “An Indigenous Present”! 🥰 It closes this Sunday and then begins a national tour to in Nashville then in Seattle. I will miss so many of these artworks and am very grateful to Jenelle Porter and Jeffrey Gibson (and the artists, lenders, museum and gallery staff) for bringing them.
1. Sky Hopinka’s photographs. This one inscribed with the line “The outside being here right now” over layers of transparencies picturing trees, woven baskets, and the sky.
2-3. Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill’s two-part installation about motherhood with its berry-tinged works on paper and 16mm film and the strawberry-scented air from the berries faithfully bathed in vinegar and replaced by ICA registrars.
4. One of my favorite conversations between sculpture and painting (there were many in the show). Here manifestations of land as sound rendered in concrete by Caroline Monnet and through vibrant color and pattern in a 1980s painting by George Longfish.
5. A detail of my single favorite work in the exhibition, a 1970s painting by Kay WalkingStick, where apron becomes canvas in a brilliant meditation on art and life.
6. Sonya Kelliher-Combs’s “Salmon Curls,” a striking work that was a favorite among our gallery staff. One of them shared today how from certain views it shimmers like a river. Here from Sonya during a virtual talk on March 18 via ICA.
A highlight of my trip to LA was hearing from Bennett Simpson at LA MoCA and Hamza Walker at The Brick talk about their 8-years-in-the-making Monuments project. Pure evidence of what art spaces singularly can do for when there’s the grit, collaboration, and inspiration among curators and artists, and the structures that support them. The loaned works of decommissioned confederate monuments from municipalities were brought into dialogue with newly commissioned works, including one by Kara Walker that deconstructs and reassembles a Stonewall Jackson Monument from Charlottesville into a new work “Unmanned Drone.” I’m saying here what a lot of people in the art world know as a reminder to myself to dream this big in my own curatorial work.
Quebec winning 🇨🇦 grateful for this week of winter bliss ❄️🎿

Ruth Erickson's engagement

Ruth Erickson's engagement rate on Instagram is 3.33%, between 3% and 6%, or 3 to 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 30 followers. An average post collects 197 likes and 8 comments, close to 25 likes for each comment.

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Ruth Erickson (@rutherickson) is an Art creator on Instagram, also filed under Art & DIY. Ruth Erickson carries Instagram's verified badge and uses an Instagram professional account. The Instagram bio for Ruth Erickson runs to 19 words across 2 lines.

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Ruth Erickson has 6,141 followers on Instagram (6.1K). Ruth Erickson follows 3,187 accounts, so the audience is roughly 1.9 times the size of the list followed. Ruth Erickson has built a substantial archive of 1,372 posts.

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Ruth Erickson's engagement rate on Instagram is 3.33%, between 3% and 6%, or 3 to 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 30 followers. An average post collects 197 likes and 8 comments, close to 25 likes for each comment.

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