Présentation

Erin Mallon’s work investigates the odd, intimate relationships between reality and fiction. In her literary writing she explores the narrating and reading instances’ proximity to the telling. In her spatial and aural works, tactile and performative dimensions reshape the receptive experience of a text. An interest in the cultural and personal narratives we use to make sense of things within our lives underlies her work. By engaging with these stories, she formulates questions about the role of the everyday in artistic production – and vice versa.

Parcours

Erin Mallon was born and grew up in rural CA, USA. She is an artist, writer, teacher, and Billie’s mom. She lives and works in Basel.

Erin Mallon has an MA in Art and Design Education and an MA in Contemporary Arts Practice. From 2015-2020 she was part of the artist collaboration Haystack News with Daniel Tschumi, which was initiated as a two-year artistic bicycle trip across Eurasia. She is a lecturer in creative writing and art education in the BA and MA programs at the Institute for Art and Design Education at the Academy of Art and Design Basel. She has worked as a freelance translator in the field of artistic research since 2015 and as Coordinator at the Swiss Artistic Research Network since 2018, where she is also an active member of the NewsLibrary work group and editor of the #microreview series.

Erin Mallon has exhibited nationally and internationally at institutions including Dock Basel, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, MUU Helsinki and The Tea Factory in Odessa, Ukraine. Her literary work has appeared in Das Narr and at the Alte Billettkasse at the Theater Basel. In 2022, she was an artist in residence at The Old Mine residency in Outukumpu, Finland. In 2025, she was a recipient of a Basel-Stadt Research Stipend for her critical re-framing of the role of Swiss pioneers and writers in shaping the myth of the North American West. In 2026, she will be an artist in residence at the Andreas Züst Bibliothek, as part of the collective FLOAT.