Erin Rachel Hudak was born in 1978 in Stow, Ohio. Her work explores the juxtapositions between our deepest desires and the undoing of our selves, our environment and each other. Immediate, passionate and honest, Hudak uses current events and images mined from mass media in order to have a conversation of exposed privacy between the artist and the viewer. She attended Allegheny College in 1996 to study art and literature and received her B.F.A from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2002. She was awarded a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center, where she completed a residency in 2006. Hudak has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband James Seward.