7-10 Years Experience
Wesley Ericson
Artist | Painter | Muralist
Available For:
Custom Commission, Collaboration, Selling Existing Work, Social Practice, Teaching / Residency
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About the Artist
Wesley Ericson (b. 2001, Cincinnati, Ohio) is an oil painter and community artist. His training began through Artworks Cincinnati apprenticeships, where he received the 2019 Biggie Award, and through the City of Cincinnati's Youth to Work programs. He later worked with artists in Cincinnati and South America, including Caro Cuervo, who curated his 2023 group show with R.A.R.O in Buenos Aires, and Lorena Torres, whose Bogotá studio he assisted in 2024 as his focus on oil painting solidified. Trained in trauma-responsive care, he led over 20 youth apprentices in completing a 3,000 sq ft mural in South Avondale with ARTE. Since 2025, he has facilitated free wellness workshops for Casa de Paz, a women's shelter, with Julia O. Bianco, creating The Heartwood Circle at Wavepool and a collaborative mural funded by a Keep Cincinnati Beautiful Safe & Clean grant. He lives and works in Cincinnati, developing a rich body of psychologically intimate oil paintings.
With a New York attitude, this mural installation was in collaboration with local Non-Profit, Art-Empowerment and newly inspired, The Halal Wok, a Halal Chinese restaurant located close to the University of Cincinnati in Corryville on Short Vine. Designed by Wesley Ericson and Co-Led by La'De Richardson in the Fall of 2025. Featuring both a traditional Chinese and Arabic dragon, surrounded by common greetings in languages spoken around the globe highlighting the beautiful diversity within Cincinnati.
This work is part of Persepolis, a series by Wesley Ericson where he learns and mourns distinctions between sounds, what happens between events themselves, and what melts away like footprints in sand: How imagination, memory, expectation, and emotion alter understanding. He paints accepting uncertainty, allowing mundane occurrences to become vessels for temporary experiences that drop anchor in psychological territory. Forms avoid one another, withdraw, collide, mirror, and wait. The distances between forms become as important as the forms themselves: where are the points of contact, what is being reflected, and what remains unfixed?
In collaboration with 1001 Colors (formerly ArtWorks), Cincinnati’s nonprofit public art studio, Wesley Ericson was commissioned to support the mural studio on a commercial installation at TQL Stadium promoting the 2024–2025 Apple TV MLS Season Pass. The 10 × 20 ft mural was painted on Polytab and features FC Cincinnati players like Luciano “Lucho” Acosta and others beneath the campaign line “You’ve Never Seen Cincinnati Like This.”
