About

Eric Ian Hornak-Spoutz is an American art dealer, curator, and art historian whose work focuses on twentieth-century Modern and Postwar art, with particular attention to works on paper, livres illustres, and archival materials. His professional activities have included gallery leadership, curatorial projects, and research related to museum collections and institutional archives. His work is grounded in close object study and historical documentation, with an emphasis on authorship, provenance, and the transmission of artistic works within scholarly and museum contexts.

Hornak-Spoutz has been involved in the placement, study, and interpretation of artworks and archival materials within public and private institutions in the United States. His curatorial and research interests span Modern and Postwar American and European art, with a particular focus on prints, photomechanical processes, and artist-publisher collaborations. His research interests also include questions of attribution and provenance, as well as the historical mechanisms through which misattribution and fraud have occurred within the art market and institutional collections, examined through documentary evidence and archival research.

His current work centers on independent research and writing related to Modern and Postwar art, livres illustres, and archival collections. He received his undergraduate degree from Fort Hays State University, with concentrations in business and historical studies, and has pursued graduate-level study in creative arts and literature at Rutgers University. Through ongoing study and publication, he aims to contribute to a clearer historical understanding of works on paper and their institutional histories, with an emphasis on accuracy, documentation, and context.