How can I buy a work by Eric Minh Swenson?

Bruno David Gallery handles the sale of available works by Eric Minh Swenson. For prices and availability, email info@brunodavidgallery.com or call +1 314 696 2377.

Where can I see work by Eric Minh Swenson in person?

At Bruno David Gallery, 7513 Forsyth Boulevard, Saint Louis, Missouri 63105, during public hours or by appointment.

What does Eric Minh Swenson make?

Short documentary films about artists, their studios and exhibitions (more than 1,500, in series such as the Atelier Art Series and EMS Legacy Films), photographs of the art world, and abstract paintings, including works in acrylic glitter powder and encaustic (2022).

Where is Eric Minh Swenson based?

Eric Minh Swenson lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

Has Eric Minh Swenson had an exhibition at Bruno David Gallery?

Yes. EMS International: Based in LA (11 September to 10 October 2015) is one of his exhibitions at the gallery.

Eric Minh Swenson

Eric Minh Swenson (born 1971) is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker and photographer who documents contemporary art in Southern California and across the United States. Known in the art world as EMS, he makes short films about artists, their studios and working methods, and their exhibitions, and photographs openings and art fairs. He has made more than 1,500 such films, in series including the Atelier Art Series and EMS Legacy Films, and contributes videos and articles to Whitehot Magazine. He also paints and makes photographic series.

Swenson’s films concentrate on process, concept and craft, with attention to the humor and character of each subject. After directing independent features and music videos in the 2000s, he began the Take 1 Art Series in 2010. His documentary MANA (2014), produced with curator Andi Campognone and artist Alex Couwenberg, follows ten Southern California artists who surf, from their studios to Kailua-Kona, Hawaii; it premiered at the Kona Surf Film Festival and screened at Laguna Art Museum.

Swenson was born in Honolulu and grew up in San Antonio, Texas; his father, a fine-art photographer, introduced him to photography. He studied at the University of Texas at San Antonio and Brigham Young University, graduating with a degree in fine arts, and has lived in Los Angeles since 2001. His writing and photographs have appeared in HuffPost, Artillery and Coagula Art Journal.

His abstract paintings were first shown in Succulents, floral acrylic works on board and canvas, at Gallery 30 South in Pasadena in 2017; works from 2022 combine acrylic glitter powder and encaustic. His Art Stars photographs, made with Coagula Art Journal to recognize women in the art world, were shown in Artist As Subject at the Lancaster Museum of Art & History in 2016. Bruno David Gallery presented his video work in EMS International: Based in LA in its Media Arts Room in 2015. He has since filmed gallery artists including Alex Couwenberg, Ben Brough and James Austin Murray, and the gallery’s exhibitions by Cindy Tower, Chris Kahler and Lily Hollinden. In 2022 he exhibited with Couwenberg and Brough in ʻOhana at SCAPE in Corona del Mar, California.