Education
MFA Pennsylvania State University School of Visual Art
BFA School of Visual Arts, NYC
Residencies
2023 Artist in Residence Icelandic Textile Center, Blönduós Iceland
Solo/Two Person Exhibitions
2023 Phantasmagoria Spring Break Art Fair, LA (solo booth)
2022 In the weeds Lazy Eye Gallery, Yucca Valley CA
2016 The Magic Hour East Side International, Los Angeles CA
2015 Wish You Weren’t Here West LA College Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2012 A Shifted Memory Co-Op28 Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2008 Cannivillastic Zoller Gallery, State College PA
Select Group Exhibitions
2023 Strange Realities Mission College, CA
Golden Bird Edward Cella Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Imaginary Landscapes Compound YV, Yucca Valley CA
2022 Garbage Person Gallery C3, Charlotte NC
Looking Glass Glass Rice Gallery, San Francisco CA
2021 Abundant Trouble Barrett Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2020 Fool’s Gold La Matadora Gallery, Joshua tree CA
Hoarders House Field Projects, New York NY
2019 Bullfrog Biennial Goldwell Art Museum, Beatty NV
2018 Other Worlds Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2017 Love Stories Art Basel Miami, Miami FL
Antipodal Durden and Ray, Los Angeles CA
Joshua Treenial Boxo Projects, Joshua Tree CA
Love Letters Basement Projects, Santa Ana CA
Kitsch 2 The Alice Gallery, Seattle WA
2016 Kitsch Studio E Gallery, Seattle WA
We Gave It Our Best… Im Ersten, Sonnenfelsgasse, Vienna
2015 Mirrors and Windows The Ada Hatch Center, Joshua Tree CA
Telephone Game Prohibition Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Perfect Strangers Bergamot Station, Santa Monica CA
Get on The Pool La Piscina Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Primo Lane Outpost Projects, Joshua Tree CA
Savage Sentimentality Wignall Museum, Rancho Cucamonga CA
2014 Savage Sentimentality Cerritos College Main gallery, Cerritos CA
C-note Jaus Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Superpositions RAID Projects, Los Angeles CA
2013 SUR Biennial RHC Gallery, Whittier CA
5790 Open Studios: Elemental. Beacon Arts, Inglewood CA
Faculty Exhibition Barrett Gallery, Santa Monica CA
MAS ATTACK 2 Torrance Art Museum, Torrance CA
Midsummer Nights: projections. Thompson Hotel, Beverly Hills CA
Gesturing into Consciousness. Palmer Museum of Art, PA
Storage Wars 5790 Projects, Los Angeles CA
Doing Pennants Fifth Floor Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2012 Inglewood Open Studios Inglewood CA
Community Beacon Arts Building, Inglewood CA
2011 Presents Gallery at 3713 Sunset, Los Angeles CA
2009 Highly Toxic Gallery Godo, Glendale CA
Finding the Animal in Paradox & Parable Zoller Gallery, PA
2008 Building, Making, Inventing, Searching Pochron Gallery Brooklyn NY
Trellis, A Sculpture Survey Rupert Ravens Contemporary, NJ
Golden Calf Crane Arts, Philadelphia PA
2007 Displacement Chashama Gallery, New York NY
Raw Summer Lovin Zoller Gallery, PA
Cultural Corridor: The 1st 5 years Gallery 51 North Adams, MA
Mashabafulatic Zoller Gallery, State College, PA
2006 Nature More 3rd Ward Brooklyn NY
Selections from the Cultural Corridor Storefront artists’ Project, Pittsfield, MA
Home Base Brooklyn Greenpoint Brooklyn, NY
Jefferson Stop Brooklyn, NY
2005 Unrelated Saratoga Arts Center, Saratoga NY
Affordable Art Fair Pier 92 New York, NY
Alumni Auction Visual Arts Gallery, New York NY
2004 Sculpture as Amalgam Visual Arts Gallery New York, NY
Night of a Thousand Drawings Artists’ Space New York, NY
Grants/Awards
2023 Change Agent Award, NCORE New Orleans
2008 Creative Thesis Grant, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
2008 ISC Nominee, Sculpture magazine
2005 School of Visual Arts Alumni Scholarship Award, SVA New York NY
Related Experience
2020- Present Director/Curator Barrett Gallery Barrett Gallery, Santa Monica CA
2019-2021 Director/Curator Unpaved Gallery Unpaved Gallery, Yucca Valley CA
2016 Founder Curate Joshua Tree Artist Publication/Podcast
Curatorial Projects
2022 Matika Wilbur Project 562 Barrett Gallery, Santa Monica CA
Art + Transformation: Prison Art Collective Barrett Gallery, Santa Monica CA
2021 Fugitive Bits: Heidi Schwegler Unpaved Gallery, Yucca Valley CA
2020 Crushed, touched + Folded: Paul Gabrielli Unpaved Gallery, Yucca Valley CA
2019 Lost Weekend: Coco Hall Unpaved Gallery, Yucca Valley CA
BioPhilia: MAAKE Magazine Unpaved Gallery, Yucca Valley CA
SLOW BURN: Kyla Hansen Unpaved Gallery, Yucca Valley CA
The Mojave Project: Kim Stringfellow Unpaved Gallery, Yucca Valley CA
When the Dust Settles Unpaved Gallery, Yucca valley, CA
2018 FOUND OutPost Projects, Joshua Tree, CA
2016 Surveying the Land Outpost Projects, Joshua Tree , CA
2016- 2021 Curate Joshua Tree Podcast/blog
Bibliography
2023 Florist for the Dead: Absurdism + Art- Emily Silver, What is My Thesis podcast.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whats-my-thesis/id1344136395?i=1000623579975
2019 EMILY SILVER, Desert Magazine April 2019. Benjamin Goulet
2018 Voyage LA, Art and Life with Emily Silver, October 24, 2018
Palm Springs Life Magazine, State of the Art, Steven Biller. April 9, 2018
2017 Maake Magazine- Artist Run, http://www.maakemagazine.com/curate-joshua-tree/Spring 2017
2015 Maake Magazine- Issue 1, Artist Interview Emily Silver. Emily Burns Editor Maake Mag, Aug 2015 2014
Emily Silver, Featured Artist, FAR Foundation for Arts Resources. Steve Hampton
http://www.far-la.org/2014/10/19/emily-silver/
Made with Color Presents: Emily Silver’s Work Celebrates the Comic and The Tragic in
Everyday Life, Beautiful Decay. May 22, 2014 Russ Crest
http://beautifuldecay.com/2014/05/22/emily-silver/
Savage Sentimentality, Exhibition Catalogue Savage Sentimentality; cover image, multi page spread, Cerritos CA
2013 SUR BIENNIEL 2013, Exhibition catalogue SUR Biennial p. 164-173, Rio Hondo CA
Wham! A Studio Visit with Emily Silver, Huffington Post Arts and Culture, Virginia Broersma
Storage Wars: A group exhibition by 5790 Projects
Painting in LA, T.S. February 11, 2013
2008 Artist as Idiot, The Rest of Now: Manifeste, the European Biennale of Contemporary Art. Aristarkhova, Irina. P124-127 Carnival Exhibition featured at Zoller Gallery, Arts & Entertainment, The Daily Collegian. P7 April 11, 2008.