Eric Gottesman is a visual artist who teaches, organizes, writes, and makes artworks with other people that address nationalism, migration, structural violence, history, and intimate relations. He is the co-founder of the civic arts organization For Freedoms, and he has been awarded a National Arts Award, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a Creative Capital Award, and a Fulbright Fellowship, among other recognitions. He co-authored the books Sudden Flowers (2014) and For Freedoms: Where Do We Go From Here? (2024, aff). Gottesman is a mentor in the Arab Documentary Photography Program in Beirut, Lebanon and was the 2024-2025 W.W. Corcoran Visiting Professor in Community Engagement at George Washington University, where he is in residence through 2027 in conjunction with the National Gallery of Art.