BIO
Erica Lorrie is a contemporary painter based in Baltimore, Maryland, whose artistic practice is a direct culmination of her two decades of experience bridging art and science. She earned her BFA in Painting, cum laude, from Boston University, and an MA in Medical and Biological Illustration with honors from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Lorrie spent over a decade working as a digital technologist and technical advisor in international development. Her expertise in artificial intelligence culminated in her role as a senior AI strategist, where she became a certified practitioner, award-winning innovator, and widely published author with six peer-reviewed articles and more than twenty international conference presentations. During this period, she explored photography and animation, earning recognition including the 2018 Blue Ribbon Film Festival Award (American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Clinical and Scientific Conference), the 2019 Wellcome Photography Prize for Medicine in Focus, and the 2025 Technology Innovation Award from Abt Global.
Lorrie has now chosen painting as her medium for a conceptual reaction to the rise of AI driven systems she once helped create. Her work challenges the categorical, data-driven logic of algorithmic vision, instead building visual fields rooted in instinct, energy, and immediacy. Her recent paintings have been in various exhibitions and are held in private collections.