Ed Trask

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.

Ed Trask Painting
Ed Trask Painting

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