education
2015 – 2017 Bergen Academy of Art + Design / University of Bergen, Master of Fine Arts, Bergen, Norway
2004 – 2006 Concordia University, BFA with distinction, Interdisciplinary Studies, Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
2001 – 2004 Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Integrated Media, Vancouver, Canada
solo exhibitions
2018 Jump Point, Rom 61, UiB KMD, Bergen, Norway
2018 Hyperdimensional Variations III, RAKE visningsrom, Trondheim, Norway
2017 NOÖSPHERE, Lydgalleriet, Bergen, Norway
2017 Hyperdimensional Variations II, Galerie Rezdechaussée, Bordeaux, France
2017 CONTACT, Galleri Bokboden, Bergen, Norway
2016 Résonateur Cosmique, w/ Alexander Wilson, Sporobole, Sherbrooke, Canada
2016 Inside the Out, Destroy Vancouver XVII, VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, Canada
2015 Until it is struck, Eastern Bloc, Montréal, Canada
2013 Crystalline Domain, Third Space Gallery, Saint John, Canada
2007 Aircraft! vs Total Music, w/ Alain Lefevbre, DGC Gallery, Montréal, Canada
group shows
2018 For MS, Amplification, Eastern Bloc, Montréal, Canada
2018 Portals, Ludacrium (Is It A Game?), Kreutzberg Pavillon, Berlin, Germany
2018 Entities, NOÖSPHERICS, Lydgalleriet / ØSTRE, Bergen, Norway
2017 LA1B test, Sonic Arcade: Shaping Space with Sound, Radius, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA
2017 Triage, Master’s Exhibition, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
2016 Hyperdimensional Variations I, Poekhali! Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
2016 Something that could easily be mistaken for nothing, Kreuzberg Pavillon, Fall Apartment, Bergen, Norway
2016 Never Say Die, RIFT, Bergen Kjøtt, Bergen, Norway
2016 The chemicals talk, Resonant Structures, Babycastles Gallery, New York, USA
2016 The chemicals talk, Resonant Structures, Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, Stony Brook, USA
2015 The chemicals talk, PIKSEL15, S12 Galleri, Bergen, Norway
2015 Spectral Resonance, Systemic Sampling, Stream Gallery, New York, USA
2014 Crystalline Domain, Biennale Internationale d’Art Numérique, Eastern Bloc, Montréal, Canada
2013 Electromagnetic Medium, Voices From Beyond: The EVP Project, POP MTL, Montréal, Canada
2013 Electromagnetic Medium, Send + Receive festival, Videopool, Winnipeg, Canada
2013 Untitled (salt, water, electronics), MuseRuole, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano, Italy
2008 Ostinato 20 + 28, Le Son a des Jambes, SAT Galerie, Montréal, Canada
2007 Shot, Feminine Products, My Hero Gallery, Montréal, Canada
selected solo performances
2016 Electromagnetic Dimension, Borealis Festival, Bergen, Norway
2015 Electromagnetic Dimension, STWST48 / Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
Sight + Sound festival, Eastern Bloc, Montreal, Canada
2014 Phase Space, Goldsmiths University + Hundred Years Gallery, London, UK
Piksel14, Bergen, Norway
Opekta, Köln, Germany
Logos Foundation, Ghent, Belgium
Echoraum, Vienna, Austria
Send + Receive festival, Actual Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
Electric Eclectics festival, Meaford, Canada
La Guérilla: unis par le bruit, Manif d’Art 7, Québec, Canada
Deep Wireless Festival, New Adventures In Sound Art, Toronto, Canada
2013 Electrochemical Improvisation, Silent Barn, New York, USA
2013 L’Espace, Cristaux, Électroniques, Feedback, Le Lobe, Chicoutimi, Canada
2013 Phase Space, Sight + Sound, Eastern Bloc, Montréal, Canada
2013 Space II, Volume: Hear Here, curator Christof Migone, Blackwood Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2012 Speaker-Piezo, 24 gauche, Espace Projet, Montréal, Canada
2012 Other dimensions VIII, Sounds in a Room, Victoria, Canada
2012 Dimensional Refractions, Ende Tymes Festival, Outpost Artist Resources, New York, USA
2011 Other dimensions VII, Sucked Orange Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2011 Other dimensions VI, Arteleku, Donostia, Spain
2011 Other dimensions V, Knot Gallery, Athens, Greece
2011 Other dimensions IV, Sounds Like…, AKA Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
2010 Other dimensions II, Send + Receive v.12, Urban Shaman, Winnipeg, Canada
2010 Bullets, salt, electronics, Launch for .dpi Resistance + Violence, Studio XX, Montréal, Canada
2008 Amiga, switch, a/v performance, Je Me Souviens 4, La Sala Rosa, Montréal, Canada
2007 Very, New Forms Festival, Scotiabank Dance Center, Vancouver, Canada
2006 Echo Echo, Mutek 06, Le Placard, SAT, Montréal, Canada
2006 Oscillators, shortwave, bass feedback, Nuit Blanche, Gallerie B312, Montréal, Canada
selected performance collaborations
2016 Disnovation / Drone 2000, w/ Nicolas Maigret, transmediale, HKW, Berlin, Germany
2014 Elementary Structures, w/ Magali Babin, Fountain House, Raumlabor Berlin/Goethe Institute, Montréal, Canada
2014 G.I.A.S.O. (Great International Audio Streaming Orchestra), Network Music Festival, Birmingham, UK
2014 Duo w/ Katherine Liberovskaya, Optosonic Tea, Silent Barn, New York, USA
2013 Cinema pour l’Oreille, La Sala Rosa, Montréal, Canada
2013 Mouvements, FÜNF, Akousma X, Usine C, Montréal, Canada
2013 FÜNF, Mutek, PLAY 3, Monument National Theatre, Montréal, Canada
2012 Ænth, w/ Alexander Wilson, VIVO, Vancouver, Canada
2012 Ænth, Choses qui tombent du ciel, La Sala Rosa, Montréal, Canada
2011 Unfortunately Gorgeous, w/ Pascale Barret, 24 gauche, Espace Projet, Montréal, Canada
2011 Duo w/ Seiji Morimoto, Experimontag, Madame Claude, Berlin, Germany
2011 Trio w/ Loty Negarti and Alexander Wilson, Kaxerna Gaztetxea, Bera, Spain
2011 Ænth, w/ Alexander Wilson, No Central, Athens, Greece
2011 Ænth, w/ Alexander Wilson, Platform for Performance Artists, Flutgraben, Berlin, Germany
2011 FÜNF, Travaux Electroniques Feminins, Conservatoire de Musique du Québec, Montréal, Canada
2010 Duo w/ Magali Babin, w/ nocinema.org, Share, Issue Project Room, New York, USA
2009 Solo and duos w/ Steve Bates + Katherine Kline, Mutek 10, Monument National Theatre, Montréal, Canada
2008 Duo w/ Emilie Mouchous, Bent Festival, DCTV/The Tank, New York, USA
workshops
2015 lumière sonore, w/ Magali Babin + Productions Supermusique, Eureka! Festival, Montréal, Québec
2014 electrochemical improvisation: experiments with electronics, sound, and crystallization, presented at:
Eastern Bloc, Montréal, Québec
Bauhaus University, Faculty of Media Arts, Weimar, Germany
PIKSEL14, Bergen Kjøtt, Bergen, Norway
CIPke, RAMPA Lab, Ljubljana, Slovenia
residencies
2014 Music in the Brain Research Group, Centre of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience (CFIN), Aarhus, Denmark
2014 Deep Wireless Festival, New Adventures In Sound Art, Toronto, Canada
2012 Crystalline Domain, Studio XX, Montreal, Québec
2010 Real-Time-Space, Excavation Sonore series, Avatar, Québec, Québec
publications
2018 NOÖSPHERICS, artist book, Topos Bokforlag, Bergen, Norway
2017 Making Contact, Erin Sexton, NRRL Amatør Radio Magazine, No. 1 – January 2017, p. 14 – 15
2016 Sound Art: Sound as a Medium of Art, Peter Weibel, Canadasonic, essay by Christof Migone, ZKM / MIT Press
2016 Resonant Structures, catalog, Perceptual Limits, essay by Flannery Cunningham, Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, NY
2015 Volumes, Book + Vinyl, Christof Migone, Martin Arnold, Blackwood / Mackenzie / SBC Galleries, Canada
2015 Systemic Sampling, catalog, Stream Gallery, New York, USA
selected press
2015 La Nature en DIY / The Nature of DIY, Esther Bourdages, ETCMEDIA 105, p. 56 – 69
2015 Sonic Encounters: In Conversation with Sound Artist Erin Sexton, Deanna Radford, Herizons Vol. 29 No. 2, p. 40 – 42
2014 Erin Sexton tunes in to the eternal music of matter, Deanna Radford, Musicworks #119, p. 28 – 31
2013 Sight & Sound’s digital self-reflexivity, Juan Camilo Velasquez, The McGill Daily, May 27, p. 1 – 6
discography
2015 Galerie Pache 100, digital album compilation, duo w/ Érick D’Orion, Galerie Pache, Paris, France
2014 FÜNF, la règle, CD, DAME / Ambiances Magnétiques, Montréal, Québec
2013 An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music #7, 1930 – 2012, CD compilation, Sub Rosa, Brussels, Belgium
2012 Compilado Sonoro Ursonate Vol. 2, 2 CDr compilation, limited edition, Ursonate Magazine, Madrid, Spain
2011 Horizon, double CD, w/ Magali Babin, Martin Tétreault, Érick d’Orion, Hélène Prévost, les encodage de l’oubli
2008 Ostinato 20 + 28, CDr compilation, limited edition, ORAL
2004 Aircraft, CDr, independent
grants + awards
2018 Prosjektstøtte, Billedkunstnernes vederlagsfond; Internasjonal kunst- og kulturutveksling, Bergen Kommune, Norway
2018 SKS Arbeidsstipend for yngre nyetablerte kunstnere, Kulturrådet, Norway
2017 Profesjonelle kunst- og kulturtiltak, Tverrfaglig prosjekt, Bergen Kommune, Norway
2017 Utstillingsstøtte til kunstnere i etableringsfasen, Kulturrådet Norway
2017 Diversestipend for Graduate Artists, Kulturrådet Norway; Etableringsstipend, Bergen Kommune, Norway
2017 USF studio 2017/2018, UiB Institute of Fine Art, Bergen, Norway
2016 Production Grant, Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2014 Production Grant, Canada Council for the Arts; Composer’s Residency Grant, SOCAN; Travel Grants, CCA + CALQ
2013 Research and Creation Grant, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ)
other professional experience
2016 Assistant to Joe Davis for Det nye Eden, Sølvberget Galleri, Stavanger, Norway
2016 Guest instructor, Darsha Hewitt’s ‘Sensing Space with Sound’ class, Bauhaus, Weimar, Germany
2015 – 2016 KHiB Masters Seminar Coordinator, Bergen, Norway
2015 – 2016 PIKSEL Festival, production assistant, press, communications, web design, Bergen, Norway
2015 Canada Council for the Arts, Peer Assessor for the New Music program, Ottawa, Canada
2013 – 2015 Perte de Signal, Rustineslab committee, artist in residence selection, Montreal, Quebec