Emily Ginsburg
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Emily Ginsburg (born New York, New York) 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.
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