"GOOD THINGS COME TO THOSE WHO WAIT" by Eriko Tsogo
“GOOD THINGS COME TO THOSE WHO WAIT” is an anaglyph drawing representing a "symbolic immigration body map" chronicling the 24 years I have lived in America since first immigrating to Denver, Colorado in 1999. Using data art, mapping and performance, the 24 horizontal lines represent biographical responsive body movements to learned hardships from each year lived in marginal space. In homage to my love for cinema and the metaverse, the final piece can be experienced with 3D glasses. Viewers should first experience the art wearing the provided 3D glasses using both color lens then cover each eye and view the art through one color. The completed piece contains over 800 nude self portrait figures hand traced in red and blue ink; repetition as raising awareness.
Artist's Bio:
Eriko Tsogo (she/her/they) is a Mongolian American multidisciplinary artist merging spectrums of visual art, esotericism, performance, social practice and media based in Brooklyn, New York. 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 exhibitions, curatorial and social practice projects, and art residencies throughout the United States. She has been the recipient of ACE Foundation Scholarship, “Juuh” Honorarium by the Mongolian Ministry of Education Culture and Science, Alliance for Artist Communities Fellowship, The Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, and Colorado Creative Industries Artist Grant.
From 2012 to 2021, Eriko worked as the Creative Director at the Mongolian Culture and Heritage Center of Colorado where she founded the “International Yurt Art Residency Program” in collaboration with Drala Mountain Center. She is the founder of Hilitehead LLC, a fine art and web based curatorial firm.
Eriko has exhibited at the Currier Art Museum (2022), Contemporary Mongolian Art Biennial: Innovating Tradition in Washington DC (2019), Superfine Art Fair (2018), Art Basel Miami Beach (2019), and Saatchi's The Other Art Fair in Brooklyn (2020, 2023), Los Angeles (2021) and Chicago (2021). Her animated short film “Tears of the Sky” has screened at the Colorado Dragon Film Festival and Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival. Eriko is the creator of "Mongovoo" interactive room at Meow Wolf Denver and "HERO5079" mural at Center for Visual Arts in Denver. She is represented by Tappan Collective out of Los Angeles.
