Emily Ginsburg

Emily Ginsburg (born New York, NY) is a conceptual artist who lives in Portland, Oregon. She was selected for the Portland2016 Biennial by curator Michelle Grabner.[1] And her work was noted as a highlight of the Oregon Biennial in 2006.[2] Jennifer Gately, the curator of that Biennial, noted that Ginsburg's work, "reveals a deep interest in the signs and symbols of communication, scientific illustration, architectural notation, electronics, and the human nervous system."[3] Ginsburg's "work often functions as a map or code for understanding an aspect of an individual or collective consciousness."[4]

In 2010, Ginsburg completed Conduit, a public artwork installed on the University Services Building's exterior on the Portland State University campus in Portland, Oregon.Ginsburg's work has been included in books such as Data Flow: Visualizing Information in Graphic Design and The Map as Art, Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography.[5][6] Ginsburg is a Professor and Chair of Media Arts, teaching in the Intermedia, Printmaking, MFA in Visual Studies, and MFA in Print Media programs at Pacific Northwest College of Art.[7] She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

Career

Ginsburg has been a professor at Pacific Northwest College of Art for 25 years.

Notable solo exhibitions
  • Mixed Feelings, Nine Gallery, Portland, Oregon, 2013[8]
  • Busy Signals, Washington State University Gallery, Pullman, Washington, 2009[9]
  • Habitual, Fairbanks Gallery, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, 2008
  • Currents, Seattle Municipal Tower, Percent for Art Commission for Seattle City Light, Seattle, Washington (permanent installation)
  • Social Studies, Nine Gallery, Portland, Oregon, 2005[10]
  • Slowness, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, Oregon, 2002[11]
  • Blotto, Manuel Izquierdo Gallery, Portland, Oregon, 2001
  • Wavelength, Studio Art Centers International/Florence, Florence, Italy, 1999
  • Or Current Resident, Metropolitan Center for Public Art, The Portland Building, Portland, Oregon, 1994
  • Whirl, Centrum Gallery, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, Oregon, 1993

Notable group exhibitions
  • Portland2016 Biennial, Disjecta, 2016[12]
  • Choreograph: Emily Ginsburg and Jane Lackey, The Art Gym, Marylhurst, 2010
  • Oregon Biennial, Portland Art Museum, 2006[13]

Notable collections
  • Franklin Furnace Archive at the Museum of Modern Art, New York New York
  • Museo da Gravura de Curitiba, Curitiba, Brazil
  • University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
  • Rhode Island School of Design, Providence Rhode Island
  • Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon Printmaking Workshop, New York, New York
  • Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
  • Archer M. Huntington Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
  • Print Club of Albany, Albany, New York
  • California State University at Long Beach, Long Beach, California
  • Colgate University Art Museum, Hamilton, New York
  • National Academy of Fine Arts, Hang Zhou, China
  • City of Portland, Portable Works Collection, Portland, Oregon
  • City of Seattle, Seattle Municipal Tower, Seattle, Washington

References
  1. Baer, April. "Disjecta Announces Artists For 2016 Biennial". Oregon Public Broadcasting. Oregon Public Broadcasting. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  2. Speer, Richard. "A Biennial that Breathes". Willamette Week. Willamette Week. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  3. Price, Lorna, ed. (2006). 2006 Oregon Biennial. Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum. p. 93.
  4. Spiess, Jessie. "Mixed Feelings". Untitled. Pacific Northwest College of Art. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  5. Gestalten (2008). Data Flow. Thames & Hudson. p. 256. ISBN 978-3-89955-217-1.
  6. Harmon, Katherine (2009). The Map As Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press. p. 256. ISBN 9781568987620.
  7. "Faculty". Pacific Northwest College of Art. Pacific Northwest College of Art. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  8. Spiess, Jessie. "Mixed Feelings". UNTITLED. Pacific Northwest College of Art. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  9. "Art Galleries". The Spokesman-Review. The Spokesman-Review. Retrieved 1 May 2017.
  10. Bovee, Katherine. "Emily Ginsburg at Nine Gallery". PORT. PORT. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  11. Hopkins, Terri M. (2003). Slowness : Ginsburg, Watt, Harrison, Boas, Mead. Marylhurst, Oregon: The Art Gym, Marylhurst University. p. 27. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  12. "Portland2016 Biennial". Disjecta. Disjecta. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  13. Price, Lorna, ed. (2006). 2006 Oregon Biennial. Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum. p. 93.
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