Erin E. Castellan earned her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from Indiana University-Bloomington. Her work is held in public and private collections, including Wells Fargo, Capital One, Canyon Ranch, and the Thompson Palm Springs by Hyatt. She has exhibited her embroidered and beaded paintings at the Affordable Art Fair Austin, Tracey Morgan Gallery (NC), Kyoto Int’l Community House (Japan), The Mint Museum (NC), Blue Spiral 1 Gallery (NC), The William King Museum (VA), and Ess Ef Eff (NY), among others. Her work has been featured in Maake (2025), New American Paintings (2021, 2020, 2015), and the Dutch textile magazine, Textiel Plus (2021). Castellan is a 2024-2025 North Carolina Arts Council Artist Support Grant recipient. She has participated in artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts.
Erin currently lives and works in Western North Carolina. When not busy in the studio, she can be found digging in the dirt, climbing mountains, and watching the sky.