Erica Hopkins’ practice frequently involves layering works within works, often beginning with photography and self-portraiture that she manipulates with various editing techniques, such as re-colorization, distressing, and image-to-video-to-image conversion. With these modified images, she then incorporates them further into other works, which themselves become yet another image to begin the cycle anew. This process of layering images upon image, sourced from autobiographical material, in addition to her kinesthetically charged surfaces that effectively obscure as well as reveal, creates a complex, psychological, and deeply intimate method of storytelling.

Hopkins was born in Anchorage, Alaska and has travelled and lived extensively throughout the United States. She has received undergraduate degrees in both music with a focus on jazz and art history with an emphasis on early modern art. Her passion for art within the academic field prompted her in creating her own art to further understand those she studied. She works in a wide variety of mediums ranging from painting, installation, papermaking, sound, and video. She is currently completing her third year MFA candidacy at George Mason University.