Erica Lord (Iñupiaq/Athabascan/Finnish-American) is an interdisciplinary artist who explores concepts and issues that exist within a contemporary Indigenous experience and how culture and identity are affected in a rapidly changing world. Lord draws on her experience of growing up between Alaska and Upper Michigan and her mixed-race cultural identity drawn from her Athabaskan, Iñupiat, Finnish, Swedish, Japanese, and English descent. To address a multiple or mixed identity, Lord uses a variety of mediums to construct new, ambiguous, or challenging representations of race and culture. Lord received her Bachelor of Arts from Carleton College and a Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe; the Musée du Quai Branley, Paris; the National Gallery of Canada; and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian and the American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery. In 2024, Lord was an awardee of the 2024 Creative Capital “Wild Futures” grant. Lord lives in Santa Fe, NM, where she teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts and continues her art practice.