Erica Green

Ms Erica Green

Associate Director, Samstag Museum of Art

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Erica Green is founding director of the Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, established in 2007 at the University of South Australia, Adelaide.  In a career of over thirty years in the professional visual arts, she has achieved national renown for her enterprise and leadership as an art museum director, curator and arts administrator, curating or managing over 100 original exhibitions. As director of the Samstag Museum of Art she is responsible for commissioning and developing the Museum’s exhibitions and public programs. She additionally manages the University Art Collection; the prestigious Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarships program; and the University of South Australia’s many cultural partnerships.
As the Visual Arts Executive Officer for the 2004 Adelaide Festival led by Artistic Director Stephen Page, she curated the Artists’ Week program featuring American writer and cultural critic Dave Hickey. Erica Green’s expertise in contemporary Australian art was recognised by her 2011 appointment to the federal government’s Cultural Gifts Program committee: she was also a founding member, in 2007, of the influential University Art Museums Australia group (UAMA).
In 2016 Erica Green was appointed Curator of the 2018 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Divided Worlds exhibition. Extending across Adelaide’s cultural precinct, North Terrace, the 2018 Adelaide Biennial was presented at the Art Gallery of South Australia, Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art at the University of South Australia, JamFactory and Adelaide Botanic Garden including the Santos Museum of Economic Botany. The exhibition titled Divided Worlds, recognises that we live in troubled times. However, rather than foretelling conflict, the exhibition celebrates the enduring role of art and culture. Divided Worlds offers an opportunity to experience an alternative dimension – one where “difference” is the natural order of things, and a strength to be celebrated.
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Year Citation
2015 Green, E. (2015). The Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art. Studies in material thinking, 12(1), 1-12.

Year Citation
2020 Brown, G., & Green, E. (2020). 2020 Adelaide//International [Exhibition]. Adelaide, Australia.
2018 Reynolds, M., de Heer, R., & Green, E. (2018). Molly Reynolds and Rolf de Heer: the waiting room (No. Of Pieces: Mixed materials) [Exhibition]. South Australia: Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art.
2018 Lacobelli, A., Mantelli, F., & Green, E. (2018). Aldo Iacobelli: a conversation with Jheronimus (No. Of Pieces: Mixed materials) [Exhibition]. South Australia: Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art.
2018 Green, E. (2018). 2018 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: divided worlds (No. Of Pieces: Mixed materials) [Exhibition]. South Australia: Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art.
2017 Cobham, G., Mantelli, F., & Green, E. (2017). Geoff Cobham: Already Elsewhere (No. Of Pieces: Mixed materials) [Exhibition]. South Australia: Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art.
2017 Parke, T., Autio, N., & Green, E. (2017). Trent Parke and Narelle Autio: the Summation of Force (No. Of Pieces: Mixed materials) [Exhibition]. South Australia: Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art.
2016 Green, E. (2016). Meet the Samstags: artists and benefactors [Exhibition]. South Australia: Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art.
2016 Green, E. (2016). Revealed³: someone's and everyone's (No. Of Pieces: Mixed materials) [Exhibition]. South Australia: Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art.
2016 Green, E. (2016). Fleurieu Art Prize (No. Of Pieces: Mixed materials) [Exhibition]. South Australia: Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art.
2015 Moore, A., Green, E., & Brown, G. (2015). Archie Moore: Les Eaux d'Amoore (No. Of Pieces: Mixed materials) [Exhibition]. South Australia: Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art.
2015 Boyd, D., & Green, E. (2015). Daniel Boyd: a darker shade of dark #1-4 (No. Of Pieces: Mixed materials) [Exhibition]. South Australia: Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art.
2015 Wilson, G., Pearce, B., & Green, E. (2015). Geoff Wilson: interrogated landscape (No. Of Pieces: Mixed materials) [Exhibition]. South Australia: Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art.
2015 Maloon, T., & Green, E. (2015). Birth of the cool (No. Of Pieces: Mixed materials) [Exhibition]. Australia: Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art.
2014 Gladwell, S., Brown, G., & Green, E. (2014). Field recordings: Shaun Gladwell [Exhibition]. Australia: Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art.
2014 Green, E. (2014). Mooi Indie: beautiful Indies Indonesian art now (No. Of Pieces: Mixed materials) [Exhibition]. South Australia: Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art.
2014 Ananda, R., Brown, G., & Green, E. (2014). Roy Ananda: slow crawl to infinity (No. Of Pieces: Mixed materials) [Exhibition]. South Australia: Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art.
2014 Green, E. (2014). Luminous cinema (No. Of Pieces: Mixed materials) [Exhibition]. South Australia: Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art.
2013 Crooks, D., & Green, E. (2013). Daniel Crooks (No. Of Pieces: Mixed materials) [Exhibition]. South Australia: Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art.
2013 Green, E., & Brown, G. (2013). Laurie Anderson, the language of the future: selected works 1971-2013 [Exhibition]. South Australia: Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art.
2012 Pearce, B., & Green, E. (2012). Master of stillness: Jeffrey Smart paintings 1940-2011 [Exhibition]. South Australia: Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art.

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