Erin M. Riley is a visual artist based in Brooklyn. Riley earned a BFA in 2007 from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston and an MFA in 2009 from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University in Philadelphia, both in Fibers. Their work is woven with hand-dyed wool using traditional tapestry techniques and incorporates imagery relating to and overlapping with sexuality, addiction, trauma, and death. This imagery is created from personal objects, screenshots, experiences, and the cacophony of life consumed and filtered through the perspective of a human who came of age on the Internet.

They are a two-time MacDowell Colony Fellow (2010, 2018) and a former artist in residence at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE, Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. Riley is represented by PPOW Gallery in New York, and their work has recently shown at the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Oslo, Gana Art Center in Seoul, and the Tang Teaching Museum in Saratoga Springs.