Erika Christensen Scully is a painter and mixed media artist living in Manhattan. She has a BA in studio art from Hobart and William Smith College, a Diploma in Portraiture from Heatherley's School of Fine Art in London, in addition to having studied at The Cleveland Institute of Art in Florence, Italy. She has completed portraits by commission for clients in London, New York, San Francisco, Boston and Connecticut.

Erika is an active member of the National Arts Club in Manhattan and the Artists Association of Nantucket, where she serves on the board, is an artist member, and is the Chair of Professional Development. She has exhibited at The Cecilia Joyce and Seward Johnson Gallery (Nantucket, MA), New York Academy of Art, (New York, NY), Jameson Gallery (Portland, Maine), The Carriage Barns Art Center (New Canaan, CT), in  addition to Big Gallery (Nantucket, MA). Erika received a commendation award from The Royal Society of Portrait Painters on a self portrait in 1999 (London, UK).

Erika has taught private art classes as well as workshops for the past two decades in California, New York, and Massachusetts. Notably, she has had a longtime commitment to doing this in underserved populations, including Project Renewal, a homeless shelter for men battling addiction.