Eric Haze’s formative years were spent as a founding member of the influential New York City graffiti collectiveThe Soul Artists. In the early 80’s he exhibited alongside friends Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat at MoMA PS1’s “New York New Wave” show in 1981 and appeared in Tony Shafrazi’s “Emerging Talent” exhibition in 1984. In 2011 his work was featured in Jeffrey Deitch’s “Art in the Streets” exhibition at MoCA Los Angeles, as well as Deitch’s large scale Brooklyn mural project “Coney Art Walls” in 2016. Along with solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Paris and Hong Kong over the last decade, Eric’s paintings were featured in the monumental graffiti and street art exhibition “Beyond the Streets,” which premiered in Los Angeles in 2017, followed by a show in the summer of 2019 in New York City.
Haze is the current Artist-in-residence at Elaine de Kooning House.Eric and his sister were painted by Elaine in her downtown New York City studio in 1972. Now almost 50 years later, he’s creating a new body of work out of the East Hampton studio Elaine worked out of later in her life, until her death in 1989.