Abbreviated Resume 2022
EMILY ARTHUR
Associate Professor of Art University of Wisconsin – Madison, Department of Art
Email: earthur@wisc.edu Website: www.emilyarthur.org Insta @darkhorsepress
EDUCATION
2000 MFA Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania MFA Printmaking
1995 BA University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. BA Studio Art / BA Art History
1991 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island (Freshman Foundation)
HONORS, GRANTS AND AWARDS Selected
2022 – 2023 Harvard University, Elenor M. Garvey Fellowship in Printing and Graphic Arts
2022 – 2024 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Division of the Arts, Emily Meade Baldwin Award Creative Arts
2021 University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Visual Remix: An Indigenous Perspective through the Contemporary Print.”
2016 Joan Mitchell Foundation, Painters and Sculptors Grant (Nomination), New York, NY
2000 Albert C. Barnes Foundation, Fellow for Advanced Theoretical and Critical Research of Art, Merion, PA
EXHIBITION RECORD Selected
2022 National Solo Exhibition, Emily Arthur Re-Member, James Watrous Gallery, Madison, WI
2020 International Group Show, Branches from the Same Tree, Guanlan China Printmaking Museum, CHINA
2019 National Group Show, Waasamoo-Beshizi (Power Lines), Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND
2018 Solo Exhibition, Emily Arthur: Endangered, Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
2017 International Group Show, MNI WICONI (Water is Life), Goldsmiths University of London, New Cross, UK
2016 Solo Exhibition, Emily Arthur: Endangered, Weingart Gallery, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA.
2016 National Group Show, Total Proof, Red Bull Studios, Mel Chin and the GALA Committee, NY
EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS CURATED BY EMILY ARTHUR Selected
2022 Mel Chin: Something’s Happening Here, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Exhibition Co-Curated with Leah Kolb, Associate Curator (Emeritus) for the Southern Graphics Council International Conference, Lifetime Achievement.
2022 Contemporary Indigenous Printmakers, James Watrous Gallery, Overture Center for the Arts, Madison, WI.
2021 – 2022 Seeing Audubon: Robert Havell, Jr. and The Birds of America, Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Co-Curated with Robin Rider, Ph.D. Special Collections at Memorial Library with contributions from Katherine Alcauskas, Chief Curator, Chazen Museum of Art.
2015-2018 Re-Riding History: from Fort Sill to the Matanzas Bay, Co-Curated with Marwin Begaye, Associate Professor, University of Oklahoma and John Hitchcock, Associate Dean of the Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
ARTIST RESIDENCIES Selected
2021 Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts Pendleton, OR. Published with master printer Judith Baumann.
2013 516 Arts Gallery, Residency/Exhibition: Impact vs. Influence, Albuquerque, NM
2011 Venice Printmaking Studio, Fondamenta Radi, 26 Murano, Venezia, ITALY
BIBLIOGRAPHY Selected
Nancy Marie Mithlo and Yve Chavez, Visualizing Genocide: Indigenous Interventions in Art, Archives and Museums (University of Arizona Press), 2022.
NATIONAL PERMANENT COLLECTIONS Selected
2020, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin
2020, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
2019, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
2018, The John and Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art, University of Nevada at Reno, NV
2016, Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, Minnesota
2015, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2015, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
2015, Museum of the American West, Autry Center, Los Angeles, California
2014, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2013, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth, Minnesota
2008, Denver Art Museum, Works on Paper Gallery, Fredrick C. Hamilton Building, Denver, Colorado