Emily Prince

Emily Prince
Born 1981 (age 34–35)
Gold Run, California, USA
Alma mater Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley
Known for drawing
Notable work American Servicemen and Women Who Have Died in Iraq and Afghanistan (But Not Including the Wounded, Nor the Iraqis nor the Afghanis) (2004-present)

Emily Prince (born 1981) is an American artist based in San Francisco. Her art consists mainly of drawings which make up larger installations; these works are often site-specific and incorporate a documentation of time passing.[1]

Personal life and education

Prince was born in 1981 in Gold Run, California. She is married to artist Shaun O'Dell and has a son, Leon Lee Prince. She graduated from Stanford University in 2003, where she received the Raina Giese Award in Creative Painting.[2] She completed her MFA in 2008 from University of California, Berkeley.[3]

Career

Prince was part of the 2007 Venice Biennale, showing a multitude of small portraits depicting soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. The piece, titled American Servicemen and Women Who Have Died in Iraq and Afghanistan (But Not Including the Wounded, Nor the Iraqis nor the Afghanis), was purchased by the Saatchi Gallery and on exhibit in 2010. [4] As of 2010, the piece had 5,213 portraits.[5]

Previous projects include a series of drawings cataloguing all the items in her apartment, in definitive categories.[6]

Selected exhibitions

2009

"The Way it Used to Be", Kent Fine Art, New York

2007

1998 A Short Show About Something, Red Mill Gallery, Vermont

2006

Familiar, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco

Kapital, Kent Gallery, New York

The Birthday Project, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco

2005

Bay Area Now 4, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

2004

The Bay Area Show, Art Institute of Detroit

The San Francisco Show, New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles

Around around every day, Backroom Gallery, San Francisco

See The Line Inside, Whitney Biennial (Cupcake Café), New York

References

  1. ↑ Cathy Cockrell, A Map Formed by Faces of the Fallen, Berkeley.edu
  2. ↑ "Emily Prince". www.emily-prince.com. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  3. ↑ "Emily Prince Biography – Emily Prince on artnet". www.artnet.com. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  4. ↑ Michael Kimmelman, At Venice Biennale, IHT.com
  5. ↑ Hall, Michael (February 2010). "For the fallen". Apollo 171: 15.
  6. ↑ EleanorHarwood.com

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