The Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art
As the former Director of Exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA in Portland, Maine from June 2015- January 2019, Erin Hutton directed twenty-seven exhibitions and exhibited hundreds of artists and partnered with numerous curators.
Photos - Michael D. Wilson and Kyle Dubay
Complete List of Exhibitions
Drawing Now | January 17–March 22, 2019
Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Art Direction and Installation by Erin Hutton
Exhibitions Coordinator Nikki Rayburn
Guest Co-Curators Bruce Brown and Munira Naqui
Making Migration Visible: Traces, Tracks & Pathways | October 5—December 14, 2018
Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Art Direction and Installation by Erin Hutton
Exhibitions Coordinator Nikki Rayburn
Guest Co-Curators Julie Poitras Santos and Catherine Besteman
Curious Nature: Alumni Triennial | August 3—September 15, 2018
Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Art Direction and Installation by Erin Hutton
Guest Curator Shannon Rankin
2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition | May 11—June 8, 2018
Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Coordinated by Erin Hutton, Guest Curator Katie Vida
You Never Know How You Look Through Other People’s Eyes | March 8—April 20, 2018
Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Art Direction and Installation by Erin Hutton
Guest Curator Scott Patrick Wiener
Off The Wall | January 17—February 23, 2018
Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Art Direction and Installation by Erin Hutton
Guest Curator Jaime DeSimone
Confabulations of Millennia | October 6—December 8, 2017
Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Art Direction and Installation by Erin Hutton
Guest Curator Richard Saja
American Genre: Contemporary Painting | July 20 —September 15, 2017
Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Art Direction and Installation by Erin Hutton
Guest Curator Michelle Grabner
2017 MFA Thesis Exhibition | May 12—June 9, 2017
Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Co-Curated by Erin Hutton and Gail Spaien, Professor, MECA
VRAGE | April 26—28, 2017
Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Art Direction by Erin Hutton
UNLOADED | March 16—April 14, 2017
Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Art Direction and Installation by Erin Hutton
Guest Curator Susanne Slavick
Collective Actions II | February 1–March 3, 2017
Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Art Direction and Installation by Erin Hutton
Anguish: The Grave Misgivings of Remembrance | October 28, 2016—January 14, 2017
Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Art Direction and Installation by Erin Hutton
Guest Curator Cynthia Nourse Thompson
In This Realm: | October 6–21, 2016
Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Art Direction and Installation by Erin Hutton
Guest Curator, Michel Droge
Bounty | August 24—September 29, 2016
Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Art Direction and Installation by Erin Hutton
Guest Curator, Sage Lewis
Made in LA | July 1—July 31, 2016
June Fitzpatrick Gallery at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Art Direction and Installation by Erin Hutton
Guest Curator, Nikki Rayburn
Ann Hirsch: Sharing Love | July 1 —August 12, 2016
Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Art Direction and Installation by Erin Hutton
Guest Curator, Karen Archey
Brothers, Some Good Times, and The Last Huraa | June 3–June 5, 2016
Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Curated by Erin Hutton
2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition | May 6—May 27, 2016
Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Art Direction and Installation by Erin Hutton
Guest Curator Joshua Reiman
Collective Actions | April 1—April, 2016
Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Art Direction and Installation by Erin Hutton and Elizabeth Jabar
MECA Through & Through | March 23, 2016
Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Art Direction and Installation by Erin Hutton
Tinderbox | January 11—March 5, 2016
Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Art Direction and Installation by Erin Hutton
Guest Curator Kyle Patnaude
Fantastical Reality | December 21, 2015–January 3, 2016
Organized by Erin Hutton
Residual Utopia: Alumni Biennial | October 9—December 15, 2015 *
Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Art Direction and Installation by Erin Hutton
Guest Curator, Christopher Stiegler
Innocent Production | September 28—October 5, 2015
Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Organized by Erin Hutton
Thomas Moser: Legacy in Wood | July 22—September 20, 2015 *
Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Art Direction and Installation by Erin Hutton
Guest Curator, Donna McNeil
Consumption | April 2012
Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Co-Organized by Daniel Fuller and Erin Hutton
Consumption explored relationship with food – from cultivating and harvesting to distribution and preparation.
FOREST | April 2011
Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Co-Organized by Daniel Fuller and Erin Hutton
Visual and performing artists, hands-on programs and activities that engaged students and the public in themes of the forest.