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. And her work was noted as a highlight of the Oregon Biennial in 2006. 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." Ginsburg's "work often functions as a map or code for understanding an aspect of an individual or collective consciousness."

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. 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. 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
 * Busy Signals, Washington State University Gallery, Pullman, Washington, 2009
 * 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
 * Slowness, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, Oregon, 2002
 * 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
 * Choreograph: Emily Ginsburg and Jane Lackey, The Art Gym, Marylhurst, 2010
 * Oregon Biennial, Portland Art Museum, 2006

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