RESUME

EMILY GORDON  (b.1997) is a Los Angeles based artist whose work explores an intergenerational conversation of familial connection and sensorial experiences in nature. The heart of her practice is abstracting past, present, and future landscapes to create a nonlinear timeline of place. She cuts apart and sews together painted and dyed compositions to create a dense terrain of her own that is reminiscent of textures, smells, times of day, and changes in seasons. These components of world building/world destroying run parallel in Gordon’s modular collages of physical layers. Emily Gordon received her MFA from the University of California Davis as a McNair Graduate Fellowship Recipient. She was recently a Bodega Bay Marine Reserve Bilinski Fellowship Recipient working on a site-specific installation as a collaboration project with PhD Fellow, Tracie Hayes and continued this work with a recent solo exhibition in Yucca Valley, CA, Would you life the veil to take a peak?. Gordon has also  exhibited in a group show, Big Softie, at Soft Times Gallery in San Francisco, and was selected to show with Visionary Projects in the group exhibition While We Were Dreaming. She has also been a Regina Brown Fellowship Recipient through the National Conference of Education on the Ceramic Arts (NCECA), Robert Arneson Award, and a nominee for the Dedalus Foundation MFA Award. She has continually worked with the University of California Nature Reserve to expand her cross disciplinary studio practice across mediums, landscapes, and experiences.

EDUCATION
MFA Art Studio, University of California-Davis
BFA Studio Art-Ceramics, University of Wisconsin-Stout

SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2024 Would you lift the veil to take a peak?, Yucca Valley, CA

2023 Nicrocosms: On Scavenging and Renewal, Bodega Bay, CA

People, Places, Things, Detroit, MI
2022 Ravenous, pop-up collaborative show, Davis, CA

And Salt the Earth Behind You, Shepard Art Center, Sacramento, CA
2021 PinPoint, video installation at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art

2020 Being and Nothingness, NCECA Exhibition, Studio 23, Richmond, VA
2019 The Undressed, the University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, WI

So Called Elements of Time, Bud and Betty Michele's Student
Artist in Residence, University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, WI

Strap Up, Girly, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis The Weight of Sweetness, Eau Claire, WI

2018 Tenderness and Rot, Menomonie, WI

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Monte Vista Projects, Group Exhibition, Bendix Building, Los Angeles, CA

While We Are Dreaming, Visionary Projects | The Yard, New York, NY

2022 University of California-Davis Film Festival, Varsity Theater, Davis, CA

Topophilia, MFA Art Studio Exhibition, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum

2021 University of California Davis Film Festival, Davis, CA

RAW: National MFA Juried Exhibition, Bozeman, MT

Speculative Futures, Present Imaginations, St. Kates University, St. Paul, MN

2020 Guarded, Juried Exhibition, Fallout Urban Center, Minneapolis, MN

2019 Your Head is Older than Your Feet, University of Wisconsin-Stout

In Other Words, University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, WI

National Clay Juried Exhibition V; Red Lodge Clay Center

North/East Juried Exhibition; CIRCA Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

Footprints; Pablo Center at the Confluence; Eau Claire, WI

American Craft Council; RiverCentre, St. Paul, MN

Past and Present, NCECA Exhibition, Caufield Clay, St. Paul. MN

Unapologetic, NCECA Exhibition, Northrup King Building, Minneapolis, MN

Everything Dies; Cherry House, Eau Claire, WI

2018 No Ceilings; New Rule Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
St.Louis Park Art Exhibition, Jean Michael Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

End of the Year Juried Exhibition; University of Wisconsin-Stout

American Craft Council; RiverCentre; St. Paul, MN

AWARDS/ACKNOWLEGEMENTS
2022 Robert Arneson Award, University of California-Davis

St.Elmo’s Fellowship Finalist through the University of Texas-Austin
LaShelle May Purchase Prize Finalist Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum

Bilinski Fellowship Collaboration Project Recipient, Bodega Bay Marine Lab Reserve

2021 Nominee for Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship in Painting and Sculpture

Dean Graduate Summer Fellowship Recipient, University of California-Davis
Coordinator in group panel for California Studio through University of California Panelist for Art and Design week, University of Wisconsin-Stout

Mary Lou Osborn Award, University of California-Davis
2020 McNair Graduate Fellowship Recipient, University of California-Davis

Artist Relief Grant recipient through Springboard for the Arts

Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Wisconsin-Stout

2019 Vermont Studio Center Artist Grant Recipient

Regina Brown Undergraduate Fellowship Recipient through the National Conference on the Education of the Ceramic Arts (NCECA
2018 Bud and Betty Micheles Student Artist in Residence Recipient

2018 End of the Year Juried Exhibition Second Place Recipient

National Association School of Art and Design Review Member

Mikes Art and Design Stipend Recipient
2016 McNair Research Scholarship Recipient

2016-19 2015American Indian Education Fund Scholarship

CURATION
2020 Variations on a theme, Priya Thoreson, Gallery 610

2019 Alternate Closures, Emily McBride, Gallery 610

This Body is Mine Alone? Kristen Anderson Larson, Gallery 610

Prefer Not To, Isaac Everhart, Gallery 610
Folding Truth, Bennett Pearson, Gallery 610

PUBLICATIONS
2022 Hyperallergic UC Davis MFA Thesis Review

2021 Hyperallergic California Studio; Sky Slices

PROVE Collective Emerge Zine Juried Poetry and Artwork Publication

2020 Pablo Art Center Journal, Eau Claire WI
2019 Prometheus, Juried Arts Publication

University of Wisconsin-Stout Journal of Student Research

COLLECTIONS
2019 Michele’s Hall, University of Wisconsin-Stout

University of Wisconsin-Stout Library Arts Permanent collection