Presented by Maria Neil Art Project

Eric Rippert completed his BFA in Photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology and later earned an MFA in Visual Art from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. His work is included in numerous private, institutional and museum collections including Cleveland Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art and Progressive Art Collection. Other exhibition venues include Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, MN; Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH; Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary; and City Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic. For years, he practiced fashion and commercial photography in New York City before relocating to the Midwest where he taught photography at University of Akron, Oberlin College and Baldwin-Wallace University.