RESUME

Emma Spertus is an artist who makes sculptures and site specific installations. She has lived on an off in the Bay Area since 2002. Along with making art, Emma has completed a diverse range of community-minded art projects, including co-founding Real Time & Space, which offers affordable artist studios to 17 artists in Oakland, CA. In 2018, she co-organized Channel Arts with the support of the Oakland Museum of CA. The community-based art workshops focused on enjoying public parks with the belief of art-making acting as an equalizer and a bringer of awareness of the space around us. A graduate of the MFA program at Hunter College, Emma has exhibited her work at White Columns, Dorsky Gallery, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, The Lab, NIAD Art Center, and other venues.

EDUCATION

2008 M.F.A. Hunter College, New York, NY
2001 B.A. Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN
2000 Visiting Student, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
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SOLO & 2 PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2023---Sentence model, Kala's Milvia/Addison Windows, Berkeley, CA
2021---Two Face, Premiere Jr, San Francisco, CA
2015---Imperial Deluxe, City Limits Gallery, Oakland, CA
2013---Golden Hour P.M., S.H.E.D. Projects, Oakland, CA
2013---Assembly, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
2011---Forum of Federations, Important Projects, Oakland, CA
2010---Spirit of the Age, White Columns, New York, NY
2010---Window Dressing, Alaska Building, Boise, ID
2010---0%, Important Projects, Oakland, CA
2009---Booked, Forthrite, Oakland, CA
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024--Helping Heads, Personal Space, Vallejo, CA
2023--New Moon Figure Eight, 120710, Berkeley, CA
2022---Shoe Fly, Real Time and Space, Oakland, CA
2020---On My Manner of Working, Real Time and Space, Oakland, CA
2020---Through My Eyes, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA
2019---15 Flags, Real Time and Space, Oakland, CA
2018---Channeling, Oakland Museum of CA, CA
2018---Give a little, Take a Little - NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA
2018---Elairage Public, Saint Etienne, France
2018---Gross Domestic Product, Cornell University, Ithica, NY
2017---A place to Stay, Museum of Northern California Art, Chico, CA
2017---Touch Move, Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland, CA
2017---2214 vol 1, ed 3: Pattern, Predictability and Repetition, envelope Architecture + Design, Berkeley, CA
2017---Uneasy Structures, Hayes Valley Art Works, San Francisco, CA
2015----Real Time and Space: A Group Exhibition, Minnesota Street Project Space, San Francisco, CA
2014---Many Places at Once, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
2014---Producing Space, Interface Gallery, Oakland, CA
2015---New Quarters, Hayes Valley Art Works, San Francisco, CA
2013---With Cinder Blocks We flatten Photographs, Romer Young, San Francisco, CA
2012----A Well Stirs, Stairwell's Project, San Francisco, CA
2012----Document O, Krowswork Gallery, Oakland, CA
2011----Shift and Flow, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2011----Expanded Field, MacArthur B Arthur, Oakland, CA
2011----In the Common Corner of Four Rooms, Statler-Waldorf Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011----A floorless room without walls, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
2011----Anomalistic Urge, Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NY
2011----11 lights of the Bay, The Apartment, Vancouver, British Columbia
2009---Transitional Space Platform, Hatch Gallery, Oakland, CA
2009---Z-axis, Lobot Gallery Oakland, CA
2008---Door to door horror, White Columns, New York, NY
2008---EVERYTHING MUST GO, Century Plaza Shopping Mall, Birmingham, AL
2008---Hunter College MFA Thesis Exhibition, Hunter College, New York, NY
2008---Paradise Now, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA
2007---MA Selects MFA, Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY
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RESIDENCIES + AWARDS + COMMISSIONS

2024--Artist in Residence, Winslow House Project, Vallejo,
2023--Artist in Residence, Chalk Hill Residency, Healdsburg
2018---Placekeeping Grant for Art Workshops + Participatory Art Presentation, Oakland Museum of California
2017---Alternative Exposure Grant for Círculo Tejido: Backstrap Club,
Southern Exposure
2017---Artist in Residence, Artistes en Résidence, Clermont Ferrand, France
2016---Sustainable Arts Residency, Kala Art Institute
2016---Alternative Exposure Grant for Real Time & Space, Southern Exposure
2016---Quick Grant for Professional Development, Center for Cultural Innovation
2015---Artist in Residence, LPP+, San Francisco
2013---LOOP Arts Grant, Oakland
2012---Artist in Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito
2012---Alternative Exposure Grant for Real Time & Space, Southern Exposure
2011---Artist in Residence, The Oxbow School of Art and Artist Residency, Saugatuck
2009---Artist in Residence, CAC Woodside, Troy
2002---Art Inside/Outside Space XV Commission, Jerome Foundation
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PUBLICATIONS

2023---Gaby Wolodarski, “New Moon Figure Eight,” Essay for New Moon Figure Eight, 120710 Gallery
2014---Contributor to “The Hour After Reader,” created by Carrie Hott and printed by Colpa Press and supported by Interface Gallery
2011---Contributor to Marco Polo Quarterly, an online publication, with a collage series titled "Tennis Eyes"
2010---Author, New Platforms for old ideas, a zine published by White Columns, New York
2008---Author, Horror Maps, a zine published by White Columns, July 2008, New York
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PRESS

2017---Sarah Hotchkiss, “At Royal NoneSuch, an Artist Talk Gets Lively with Chess and Animation,” KQED Arts, September 17, 2017
2016---Interviewed: “Featured Organization: Real Time & Space,”
SF MOMA Open Space Blog
2015---Kara Q. Smith, “Review: Imperial Deluxe,” Art Practical, August 11, 2015
2015---Aaron Harbour, “City Limits//Emma Spertus: Imperial Deluxe,”
Curiously Direct, July 15, 2015
2014---“Interview with Lab Executive Director Dena Beard,”
White Fungus, September 7, 2014
2013---Patricia Maloney, “With Cinder Blocks We Flatten Our Photographs at Romer Young Gallery," Dailyserving, July, 24, 2013
2013---A. Will Brown, profile for San Francisco Arts Quarterly, May 2013
2013---Alex Bigman, “The Anxiety That Artists Feel,”
East Bay Express, April 17, 2013
2012---Doctoral Thesis, Charlotte Præstegaard Schwartz,
University of Southern Denmark
2011---Christine Wong Yap, “Should I stay or Should I Go?,”
Art Practical, January 8, 2011
2011---Stephanie Echeveste, "Art on the Ceiling…" ,
SF Weekly, June 28, 2011, San Francisco
2008---Kevin Ferguson, "Why Don’t You Take a Picture; It’ll Last Longer", 6 types, 30 oddities and many views, Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, New York (catalogue)
2008---Cheryl Tucker, "One Week Only," The Artists Forum Magazine
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AFFILIATIONS + SPECIAL PROJECTS

Real Time & Space, Founder Director
Channel Arts, Co-organizer
Círculo Tejido: Backstrap Club, Co-organizer
Rock Paper Scissors Collective, Founding Member