Eric March

Eric March is a New Haven, CT based figure painter whose work uses figurative realism to create visual metaphors and explore issues of personal responsibility, institutionalized inequality and communal resilience.Eric grew up in northern Illinois and earned his BFA at Indiana University. He continued his studies in New York City with Andy Reiss and at the Art Students League.  While in NYC his cityscapes were featured in three solo shows in Brooklyn and Queens.  Upon moving to New Haven, CT in 2014 Eric’s focus changed from cityscapes to creating multi-figural compositions that created visual allegories.

He is currently working on a collection of works inspired, in part, by the history and experience Coney Island as well as current political events.  

Since the pandemic Eric has also created several large-scale public artworks, including paintings at Yale School of Medicine, Yale New Haven Hospital and Cornell Scott Hill Health Center. He has also recently completed a 190’ wall mural in downtown New Haven. Honors include a 2025 Connecticut Artist Fellowship, a New Haven Arts Council Grant, a Queens Council on the Arts Individual Artist Grant, the Provincetown Dune Shack Residency, and the Hudson River Fellowship. Eric served as the Department Head of the Painting and Drawing Department at the National Academy School in NY in 2014-15.  He currently teaches at the Art Students League (NYC) and Creative Arts Workshop (New Haven).

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