Eric Schmid
Eric Schmid is a Swiss-American mathematician, artist, and curator whose work explores intersections between mathematics, contemporary art, and philosophy. He has exhibited in European galleries, with a group exhibition at a Swiss institutional venue in Zurich as part of the artist collective FPBJPC. His curatorial projects have primarily taken place in the United States and Oslo, curating a solo exhibition of Bjarne Melgaard and group exhibitions including notable contemporary artists such as Simon Denny, Ser Serpas, Rochelle Goldberg, Stephan Dillemuth and Mattin.
Education
Schmid earned a BA in Individualized Study from New York University (2013) with concentration in Continental Philosophy and Visual Art with a minor in Mathematics. After brief studies at the University of Chicago, he completed an MS in Applied Mathematics at DePaul University (2025). He is currently pursuing a PhD at the Global Center for Advanced Studies under Fernando Tohmé, Neil Ghani and Toby St Clere Smithe.
Career
Schmid has exhibited at venues including Kunsthalle Zürich, Vilma Gold (London), and Galleria Federico Vavassori (Milan). In 2014, he established a project space in Queens called Kavita B Schmid.
His curatorial projects include exhibitions at Centralbanken (Oslo), Triest (Brooklyn), Graham Vunderink Gallery, What Pipeline/Cave Gallery (Detroit), and M. LeBlanc (Chicago). Schmid has organized academic events at the Emily Harvey Foundation combining art with mathematical and philosophical discourse.
His sound work has been released on experimental music labels including FPBJPC and .
He has performed at Artists Space, Cafe Oto and .
Publications
Schmid's publications include "Prolegomenon to a Treatise" (Bauer Verlag, 2022), "Dub Langlands: Art Theory Texts on Cybernetics" (Graham Vunderink Gallery, 2025), and "A Very Short Introduction to Topos Theory" (preprint, 2024).
Research
Schmid's mathematical research focuses on abstract algebra, category theory, and algebraic topology, with applications to artificial intelligence and multi-agent reinforcement learning systems.
* Speak, Lokal, Kunsthalle Zürich (2017)
* Artist's Artist, Rue Américaine 13, Brussels (2024)
Education
Schmid earned a BA in Individualized Study from New York University (2013) with concentration in Continental Philosophy and Visual Art with a minor in Mathematics. After brief studies at the University of Chicago, he completed an MS in Applied Mathematics at DePaul University (2025). He is currently pursuing a PhD at the Global Center for Advanced Studies under Fernando Tohmé, Neil Ghani and Toby St Clere Smithe.
Career
Schmid has exhibited at venues including Kunsthalle Zürich, Vilma Gold (London), and Galleria Federico Vavassori (Milan). In 2014, he established a project space in Queens called Kavita B Schmid.
His curatorial projects include exhibitions at Centralbanken (Oslo), Triest (Brooklyn), Graham Vunderink Gallery, What Pipeline/Cave Gallery (Detroit), and M. LeBlanc (Chicago). Schmid has organized academic events at the Emily Harvey Foundation combining art with mathematical and philosophical discourse.
His sound work has been released on experimental music labels including FPBJPC and .
He has performed at Artists Space, Cafe Oto and .
Publications
Schmid's publications include "Prolegomenon to a Treatise" (Bauer Verlag, 2022), "Dub Langlands: Art Theory Texts on Cybernetics" (Graham Vunderink Gallery, 2025), and "A Very Short Introduction to Topos Theory" (preprint, 2024).
Research
Schmid's mathematical research focuses on abstract algebra, category theory, and algebraic topology, with applications to artificial intelligence and multi-agent reinforcement learning systems.
* Speak, Lokal, Kunsthalle Zürich (2017)
* Artist's Artist, Rue Américaine 13, Brussels (2024)
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