Bio
Emily Wisniewski is contemporary painter who received her BFA from Northern Arizona University in 2018 on a full tuition scholarship. She continued her education in Italy and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from Maryland Institute College of Art. She has received awards including the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting Fellowship Artists Under 35 Art and Robotics Festival. Last year she had solo and two person exhibitions at MICA exhibition Cotyledon Gallery. Recently she showed at Museum of Modern Art U Cara in Italy, the Peale Museum, Chesapeake Art Center, Amos Eno Gallery, and Baltimore City Hall.
Education
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2023. Master of Fine Arts in Painting
Maryland Institute College of Art
LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting, Education Emphasis
2019 Master of Fine Arts
Studio Arts College International
2018 Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree
Northern Arizona University
Honors College, Minor Art History
Exhibitions
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One and Two Person Shows
​2023 No Place Like Homo, Cotyledon Gallery, Baltimore MD, USA
2022 Fantasies, Gateway Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD, USA
2019 First Friday Solo Exhibition, Cartwheel Gallery, Cottonwood Arizona USA
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Juried Shows
2023 Big Small Show, Drawing Rooms Gallery, Newark NJ, USA
2023 At Summer's End, Eyes On Art, 17 Frost St. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2023 Transplants, Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY USA
2023 Portals, Maryland Federation of the Arts, Baltimore MD, USA
2023 In This Body of Mine, MassArt, Boston MA , USA
2023 Baltimore Amplified, City Hall, Baltimore MD, USA
2023 LGBQT+ Exhibition, Chesapeake Arts Center, Baltimore MD, USA
2023 Constellations, The Peale Museum, Baltimore MD, USA
2023 000 at Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD USA
2023 Restart Rebirth, Rosenberg Gallery, Baltimore MD, USA
2023 Construction/ Deconstruction, Zo Gallery, Baltimore MD, USA
2022 Lichtspiel des Westens, Leipzig GA
2022 Hot Rock Art Collective Exhibition, Cotyledon gallery, Baltimore MD
2022 We Art Not Similar, Lazarus Center, MICA, Baltimore MD USA
2022 With Earth and Body, Lazarus Center, MICA, Baltimore MD, USA
2021 Eyes in the Light, Lazarus Gallery, Baltimore MD, USA
2021 In Escalation, Kunthale, Leipzig GA
2021 MOWNA Biennale, Online
2021 People, Plants, Precarity, Performance Festival BLAUVERSCHIEBUNG, KUB Gallery,
Leipzig, Germany
2020 The Path of Water, See the Sea Change, Festival of Art and Robotics, and Other
Technologies, Curated by Maria Campitelli, U.Carà Museum in Muggia, Trieste, IT
2020 Medicinal Plants Project Scuola Populare, Villa Romana Prize, Florence IT
2020 First Year MFA Exhibition, Spela Zidar, Jules Maidoff Gallery, Florence, IT
2020 The Extended Body, In-Line Contemporary Art Space, London, UK
2018 BFA Show, Beasley Gallery, Flagstaff, Arizona USA
2015 Paintings of Italy, Bruce Aiken Fine Art Studio, Flagstaff Arizona USA
Group Shows
2020 Hello World, Chiasso Purdutto, Online exhibition in Collaboration with Transcultural
Exchange, Online
2019 Flagstaff Government Building, Flagstaff Arizona, USA
2019 SACI Gallery, Florence Italy
2019 Tree Installation, Ashes Indigenous, Queer and Environmental Festival, Curated by Museum of Contemporary Art Flagstaff, Flagstaff, Arizona USA.
2019 Selected Paintings, Museum of Contemporary Art Flagstaff, Arizona USA
2015-
2016-
and 2017 Undergraduate Research Symposium, Sky Dome, Northern
Arizona University Honors Program, Arizona USA
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Additional Professional Experience
2021 Graduate Student Council, Student Voice Association Officer, MICA
2020 Medicinal Plants Project Scuola Populare, Villa Romana Prize, Florence IT
Grants
2022 Graduate Research Development Grant, MICA
2023 Graduate Pop Up Funds, MICA
Awards
​2021 MICA Graduate Merit Scholarship
2021 Le Roy Hoffberger School of Painting Scholarship
2020 Second Place, See the Sea Change, Arte e Robotica Festival
2019 MFA Female Student Award, SACI
2014-2018 Lumberjack Full-Tuition Merit Scholarship, NAU
2015 Honor’s College Director’s Grant, NAU
2015 Go Global Learning Scholarship, NAU
2015 Center For International Studies Scholarship, NAU
2015 First Year Student Achievement Award, NAU Honor’s College
Teaching
2023 Lead Art Teacher, Success Academy Charter Schools, Far Rockaway
Queens, NY USA
2023 Guest Lecturer, Foundations of Painting, Howard Community College,
Baltimore, MD USA
2022 Graduate Teaching Intern, First Year Experience Forum, Maryland Institute
College of Art
2022 Graduate Teaching Intern, First Year Experience, Color, Design, Process,
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD, USA
2021 Graduate Teaching Intern, Advanced Painting, Maryland Institute College
of Art, Baltimore MD USA
2021-2023 Art Teacher, Art With a Heart, K-12 and senior community art classes,
Baltimore MD, USA
2017 to 2018 Art Teacher, Haven Montessori School, Flagstaff, AZ USA
2019 Assistant To Professor, Outdoor Drawing and Painting Workshop, Northern Arizona University Honor's Program, Grand Canyon, USA
2015 to 2018 Teacher Assistant, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ USA
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