Meet Ed Trask
Ed Trask is a musician, painter, and muralist whose work has been collected into many permanent collections. Trask earned a BFA in Painting & Printmaking from VCU and while in school, he transformed many of the dilapidated buildings around Richmond City into his very own art gallery through painted murals. After graduating in 1992, he continued painting illegal murals around the world while on tour with different punk rock bands and friends. Trask has since become involved with bringing creative changes to Richmond and other cities through public art. He co-founded the RVA Street Art Festival and served as a commissioner for Richmond’s Public Art Commission. He is a past board member of the Visual Arts Center of Richmond and has lectured and facilitated creative consulting programs for numerous corporations while working with community nonprofits to bring creative, inclusive public art throughout the city. Ed Trasks’ paintings and murals appear in many permanent collections, including the Modern & Contemporary Art Collection at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Ed lives in Richmond VA with his wife and two children.
Featured Commissions, Exhibitions & More
B.F.A. 1992 Virginia Commonwealth University
2019 Glave Kocen Gallery , Richmond, Virginia
2017 New Acquisition Opening, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond Virginia
2017 Glave Kocen Gallery , Richmond, Virginia
2015 Glave Kocen Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
2013 Glave Kocen Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
2012 Adam Cave Gallery Raleigh NC
2012 Jonathan Slingluff Gallery , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2011 Glave Kocen Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
2010 Jonathan Slingluff Gallery , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2009 Studio 27.28 , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2009 J Fergesen Gallery, Farmville, Virginia
2008 Eric Schindler Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
2007 Cramer Gallery (Steward School/ residency program), Richmond, Virginia
2006 Eric Schindler Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
2005Cramer Gallery (Steward School/ residency program), Richmond, Virginia
2005 Gallery 222, Leesburg, Virginia
2005 Capital One, Richmond, Virginia
2003 Egg Space Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
2003 Chop Suey Books, Richmond, Virginia
2002 Eric Schindler Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
2001 Egg Space Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
2000 New Work, Corporate Museum and Frame, Richmond, Virginia
2000 New Work, Park Group, Richmond, Virginia
2021 Ed Trask & Matt Lively, Visual Arts Center of Richmond’s True F. Luck Gallery
2018 Collectors Night, Visual Art Center of Richmond
2017 RVA Street Art Festival Group Show
2015 Current Art Fair , Richmond VA
2014 RVA Street Art Festival Group Show
2013 RVA Street Art Festival Group Show
2012 Youngblood Gallery, Atlanta Georgia
2012 19 Karen Contemporary Artspace Gold Coast Australia Small International Group Show
2011 Kimbal Art Center, Park City, Utah
2010 Japanese American Museum, Los Angeles, California
2009 Longwood University, Farmville, VA
2009 T&P Fine Art , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2008 Bridge Art Fair(Miami Art Basel), Miami, Florida
2008 Weekend Fling All Rise Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2008 Insiders Outsiders and The Middle, Scion Space, Los Angeles, California
2008 Ed Trask and Jennifer O’Connell, Adam Cave Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina
2007 Red Door Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
2007 Wide Open, McCraig-Welles Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2007 V.C.U arts Locker Project, Richmond, Virginia
2006 Tribes Gallery, New York, New York
2006 Robert Rentz Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
2006 Open End Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2005 Small Works, Eric Schindler Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
2004 Capital One (Permanent Collection Exhibition)/ Curated Culture, Richmond, Virginia
2003 Stress Fest, Emo’s, Austin, Texas
2003 Underground Artist Exhibition, Richmond, Virginia
2002 Egg Space, Richmond, Virginia
2000 Egg Space, Richmond, Virginia
1999 Artzilla, Artspace, Richmond, Virginia
1996 1708 Art Auction, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
1991-1993 VIM Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
2016 Community Train mural, 300’ Commission , Town of Ashland VA
2015 Headquarters mural and employee engagement Art.com Oakland , CA
2015 Sustainability 50, Event , Bath House Studios , New York , NY
2015 Co-organized RVA Street Art Festival, painted mural
2014 Brand 50 Event , Bath House Studios , New York , NY
2014 Better Block community mural
2013 Co-organized RVA Street Art Festival, painted mural
2012 Co-organized RVA Street Art Festival, painted mural
2012 Mural for Sant Feliu de Guixols Spain
2011 Partners in the arts, mural, Florianopolis Brazil
2010 Relevant ,Kimball Art Center, Park City, Utah
2010 Virginia Commonwealth University, Mass Communications Department
2008 Poster for International Folk Festival, Richmond VA
Capital One
Dominion Power
Altria
Comcast
Starbucks
N.B.C.
Gap
McKesson
Ducati International
Virginia Elevator
International Roofing
Butler and Williams
Art.com
Hardywood Brewing
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Dominion Power
J.P Morgan
Capital One, Richmond, Virginia
Consortium, Two Richmond Plaza LLC, Richmond, Virginia
Play Inc.
N.B.C.
GAP/ Old Navy
Fortune Magazine
Phillip Morris
Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce
GE
Mars
“How Ed Trask Repainted The City in His Image” Style Weekly May 2015
“Insiders, Outsiders, Middle,” Juxtapoz, august 2008
“Scion Space show,“ L.a.Weekly August 2008
“Perfect Day,” Giant Robot, 2008
“On Exhibit Feature,” Juxtapose, May 2003
“Snapshot,” Stop Smiling, August 2003
“Ed Trask,” Giant Robot, Summer 2003
64 Magazine, 2000,
Janet Giampetra “Brush With the Law,” Style Magazine, August 1997
Time Out Amsterdam, June 199