born in Argentina in 1973. He lives and works between Paris, Buenos Aires and Montevideo.

Over the past two decades, his work has been shown internationally and featured in the permanent collections of major museums and private collectors. His most recent exhibitions at the MORI Art Museum (Tokyo, 2017) and the HOW Art Museum (Shanghai, 2018) have attracted more than 600.000 of visitors. With Liminal, a major anthological exhibition at MALBA (Buenos Aires) and the show The Confines of The Great Void, at CAFAM (Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing), China’s premiere museum where he became the first non-Chinese artist to occupy the entire exhibition space and the currently touring retrospective in Brazil (CCBB Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Brasilia), he also broke all admission records. In December 2022, a new version of Liminal, first anthological exhibition in the USA, was opened at PAMM, Miami and will be displayed until September 2023. In April 2023, the first anthological exhibition in Europe will inaugurate at PALAZZO REALE, Milano, Italy.

Erlich began his professional career at 18 with a solo exhibition at the Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires and, after receiving several fellowships (El Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Fundación Antorchas), went on to study at the Core Program, an artist residency in Houston, Texas (Glassell School of Art, 1998); there, he developed his signature installations Swimming Pool and Living Room. In the year 2000, he participated in the Whitney Biennale with the work Rain, and in 2001 he became Argentina’s representative at the 49th Venice Biennale with Swimming Pool, a landmark piece that is part of the permanent collection at The 21st Century Museum of Art of Kanazawa (Japan) and the Voorlinden Museum (Netherlands).

His public works include La Democracia del Símbolo, a joint intervention in the Obelisco monument and MALBA Museum that captivated the city of Buenos Aires in 2015; Maison Fond marked the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris and is on permanent display at the Gare du Nord (Nuit Blanche, 2015); the celebrated installation Bâtiment (Nuit Blanche, Paris, 2004) has been reproduced in countries across the globe (France, The UK, Australia, Japan, Argentina, Ukraine, Austria); in 2018, Ball Game was commissioned by the IOC to commemorate the Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires. Port of Reflections has been exhibited at the MMCA (Seoul, Korea, 2014), at MUNTREF (Buenos Aires, 2016) and at the Neuberger Museum of Art (New York, 2017). Palimpsest is on permanent display at the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale (Kinare, Japan, 2018).
Erlich has received numerous awards, including: The Roy Neuberger Exhibition Award (NY, 2017), the Nomination for the Prix Marcel Duchamp (Paris, 2006), the UNESCO Award (Istanbul, 2001), El Premio Leonardo (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, 2000), el Fondo Nacional de las Artes (Buenos Aires, 1992).

As a conceptual artist, his work explores the perceptual bases of reality and our capacity to interrogate these same foundations through a visual framework. The architecture of the everyday is a recurring theme in Erlich’s art, aimed at creating a dialogue between what we believe and what we see, just as he seeks to close the distance between the museum or gallery space and daily experience.