About Erin Wright

Photograph courtesy of Edwin Stevens.

Erin Wright is Commissioning Editor and Producer of LACMA Productions and Director of Artist Initiatives at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Her 30 years of experience in the art world at Sotheby’s, Lannan Foundation, Gagosian Gallery, and LACMA has culminated as a producer of projects with artists and filmmakers. She has been producing documentary films about artists and their work for over a decade, including films on John Baldessari, Mark Bradford, Michael Heizer, Robert Irwin, Barbara Kruger, Catherine Opie, Ed Ruscha, James Turrell, and Betye Saar. She has collaborated with and commissioned work from filmmakers such as Lance Acord, Sini Anderson, Pippa Bianco, Dime Davis, Richard Dewey and Tim Marrinan, Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, Alysa Nahmias, Doug Pray, Lisanne Skyler, Christine Turner, Lucy Walker, and Jessica Yu. Her films have earned official selections at some of the leading international film festivals, including Sundance, SXSW, Aspen Shortsfest, DOC NYC, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Full Frame, AFI DOCS, and Tribeca. She produced a feature documentary, The New Bauhaus on the artist László Moholy-Nagy that premiered at the New York Architecture and Design Festival, in Chicago at the International Film Festival in 2019 and on the West Coast at the Palm Springs Film Festival in 2020. The short documentary she produced Betye Saar: Taking Care of Business premiered at Sundance 2020 and is now a New York Times Op-Doc.