After growing up on Long Island, New York, Eric Corriel graduated from Cornell University where he received a BA in Philosophy while also studying Fine Arts and Computer Science. He later received a Diplôme National d'Arts Plastiques (National Diploma of Fine Arts), the equivalent of an MFA, focusing on Digital Art, from the École Régionale Supérieure d'Expression Plastique in Lille, France.

Eric takes the urban landscape as a medium in which to create site-specific public art interactive digital video installations. He currently lives in Brooklyn and works at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.