Emily A. Gibson has exhibited her work at Temporary Agency, the LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Spattered Columns exhibition space, Spring Break, and the E. Tay gallery in New York City, as well as, the Revolving Museum and Berkshire Museum in New England.  She has received grants from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation, and the Leopold Schepp Foundation.  Gibson holds a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and a MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art. As a graduate student, she received a scholarship to travel and study in Japan and China.  Following graduate school, she moved to New York and set up studio space with other artists.  As the recipient of a fellowship program through Studio in School she also began teaching art in the South Bronx.  Other teaching posts have included work at the Cooper Hewitt Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and teaching residencies at the Guggenheim.  At the City College of New York she instructed artists on the strategies for making art, as well as on the art of teaching.  Gibson was born in Pennsylvania, and grew up in a town founded in the 1700's and still surrounded by Amish farmland.  Her work ranges from abstractions made with salt, ink, and breaths of exhaled air to portraiture that reflects the relationships, and anonymity of the digital age.  

EDUCATION 

2004  Certification Fellowship SIAS  Pratt Institute     
2003  M.F.A.   Sculpture   Massachusetts College of Art 
1997   Apprenticeship   The Fabric Workshop   Philadelphia, PA 
1996   B.F.A.   General Fine Arts   Maryland Institute College of Art 

AWARDS/GRANTS 

Studio in a School Merit Award 
George Nick Prize Finalist and Honorable Mention 
Leopold Schepp Foundation Scholarship      
Massachusetts College of Art Traveling Scholarship    
Vermont Studio Center Full Fellowship      
Artist’s Resource Trust of the Berkshire Taconic Foundation  
Emerging Artists Exhibition Merit Award, Michael Price Gallery  
Provincetown Art Association Exhibition Merit Award        
Golden Pen Merit Award

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

To See the Moon Fall From the Sky   SPRING BREAK   New York, NY
Verblist   E.TAY GALLERY   New York, NY
Governing Body  
TEMPORARY AGENCY   Queens, NY
Looking Forward  
SAFE HAVEN ART CONNECTS NY   Bronx, NY
Small Works Show  
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY   New York, NY
Here & Everywhere  
SPATTERED COLUMNS  New York, NY
Chain Letter  
SAMSON PROJECTS   Boston, MA
Paper and Pulp  
SALT SPACE   New York, NY 
Perspectives  
WORKSPACE HARLEM   New York, NY 
Political Pin-up  
PROSPECT RANGE   Brooklyn, NY 
Faculty Exhibition   
WEILL GALLERY   New York, NY 
Lordship and Bondage  
NEIMAN GALLERY   New York, NY 
George Nick Prize   
DORAN GALLERY   Boston, MA 
Thesis Show   
DORAN GALLERY   Boston, MA 
Yourself, Autoritratto  
SESTO SENSO   Bologna, Italy 
Lingo  
ONI GALLERY   Boston, MA 
Group Show  
TOWER GALLERY   Boston, MA 
Group Show   
PROVINCETOWN ART MUSEUM  Provincetown, MA 
Emerging Artists  
MICHAEL PRICE GALLERY   Boston, MA 
Open Studios Group Show  
THE DISTILLERY   Boston, MA 
Sculpture on Wheels  
THE REVOLVING MUSEUM   Boston, MA 
Revelation for Revolution  
THE REVOLVING MUSEUM   Boston, MA
 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

The Hewitt School
Maryland Institute College of Art, Professor

City College of New York, Adjunct Instructor
Maine College of Art, Instructor
Museum of Modern Art, Educator 
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Learning through Art Teaching Artist
The Jewish Museum, Sculpture Instructor 
Studio in a School, Art Partnership Initiative Teaching Fellow 

LECTURES & PANELS

Georgetown University
Columbia University, Teachers College
Maine College of Art