Erika Jean Lincoln crip-techno-tinkering with a pottery wheel during her residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts.

Erika Jean brings together disability arts and new media arts, to create artworks through her crip-techno-tinkered systems and devices. She makes use of unconventional forms of engagement and interaction to push the boundaries of how art, communication, and bodies can be understood.

Erika Jean’s artworks have been exhibited in galleries and museums in Canada and internationally. Exhibitions include - The Hole NYC, Science Gallery Ireland, Boston Cyberarts Gallery USA, Bauhaus-Archiv in Germany, North Dakota Museum of Art, State Library of Queensland Australia. Nationally at the Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq, Plug-In ICA Winnipeg, Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, Harbourfront Center Toronto, Biennale Nationale de Sculpture Contemporaine Québec and Gallery 1CO3 at the University of Winnipeg. She has been awarded numerous grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and in 2025 she was included in the Sobey Art Award Longlist.

She has exhibited her work at festivals such as Pixxelpoint Slovenia, ArtBots NYC/Dublin, The Vancouver Underground Film Festival, Filmwinter Stuttgart, Java Museum Koln, Kino8 ½ Saarbrucken, AlloSphere Research Facility, University of California SB, and most recently at UKAI projects Carnival in Toronto.

Her artistic approach extends beyond exhibitions into residencies where she has co-facilitated seminars that encourage discussions between technology, neurodiversity, and art with neuroscientists, software engineers, and disability arts activists. These residencies include, the Banff Center for the Arts Canada, The Banff New Media Institute, Media Lab Prado Madrid, The Blue Mountain Center NY, Ingenuity Labs Research Institute Queens University. Her article, Crip-Techno-Tinkerism: A Neurodivergent Learning Style Meets Machine Learning, was published in 2024 by the Leonardo Journal.

a head and shoulders shot of the artist. She is a light skinned, brown haired woman wearing a black hoodie. She wears a fascinator made of wire and yarn. She stands in front of a drawing that hangs on a white wall.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • TYSM!! Yes my art is for sale. I do my own small print editions at runs of 10 to 30. I also do scaled versions of my sculptures making 3D printed art collectables. Send me an email !

  • I term I came up with to describe my art making. You can download the paper that I wrote on my art page.

    TL:DR - I have neurodevelopmental disabilities and use different technologies for art and life. Rather than using these technologies to normalize my thinking and doing, I tinker with them to reflect my way of thinking and doing. I tinker with microphones, video camera, computer code, electronics, machine learning, and robots. I love taking things apart - fuck the patriarchy.