Erik Frydenborg was born in Miami, Florida, and grew up in rural York County, Pennsylvania. He holds a BFA from MICA in Baltimore, MD, and an MFA from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA. Frydenborg has held solo exhibitions at Starr Suites, Brooklyn, NY, The Pit, Glendale, CA, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL, Albert Baronian, Brussels, BE, The Suburban, Oak Park, IL, and Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA. Recent group exhibitions include Slipper at Personal Space, Vallejo, CA, Models at Bel Ami, Los Angeles, CA, Chanterelle at ASHES/ASHES, New York, NY, Unstuck in Time at Pasaquan, Buena Vista, GA, and Domestic Air Bag at Pio Pico, Los Angeles, CA. Frydenborg’s work has been reviewed in Artforum, FlashArt, and The Los Angeles Times, among other publications. From 2017 through 2019, Frydenborg was a partner in the cooperative artist-run Los Angeles gallery AWHRHWAR. Frydenborg has participated widely in exhibitions staged at artist-run spaces, has written essays on peers such as Amanda Ross-Ho and Sterling Ruby, and co-founded the project space AHRHWAR in 2016. His work is in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and public collections of the Ogunquit Museum of Art, Ogunquit, ME. Erik Frydenborg lives and works in Los Angeles.