Born in 1972, Emily Roz received a BA from Hampshire College where she studied Art History, Literature and Weaving. She went on to receive an MFA in Fiber from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including Front Room Gallery, Parlour, HKJB, 31Grand and ABC No Rio in New York; Decatur Blue in Washington DC; NUDASHANK in Baltimore; Gardenfresh and Clutch Gallery in Chicago and The Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. She has been reviewed in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Time Out New York, The Washington Post, Joy Quarterly, W+G Williamsburg News + Art, Apollo Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail and NewCity Chicago. Emily was raised in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and currently works in New York, where she lives with her husband and son.
Solo Exhibitions
2011 The Rutting Season, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Kill the Beast, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013
Summer Show, Rice/Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA (forthcoming)
Your Content Will Return Shortly, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT
territorial re-marks, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Interspecies, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
2012
Fruit and Vegetable Stand Project, curated by Paul Branca, Queens, NY
territorial re-marks, Articule, Montreal, Canada
The Ballot Show, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Black Foliage, curated by Matt Craven, NUDASHANK, Baltimore, MD
Summer Sampler, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Site95 benefit, Present Company, Brooklyn, NY
Momenta Benefit, Brooklyn, NY
Hunger Is Real, H.E.N.S. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011
Summer Sampler, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Alarums and Excursions, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
WAGMAG Benefit, Causey Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY
Fuse Works, Central Connecticut State University’s Art Gallery in New Britan, CT
2010
Parlour No. 19, Par Avion, Parlour, Siena, Italy
Fountain, Miami 2010
Animal Instinct: Allegory, Allusion, and Anthropomorphism, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
Flesh and Bone, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Day Planners, Clutch Gallery, Chicago, IL (two-person)
Born To Die, Second Home Projects/Temp IX, Berlin, Germany, curated by Jay Henderson
Space of Mind, works on paper, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Artist at Work, Recess Activities Inc, New York, NY
Portable Caves, HKJB, LIC, NY, curated by Jay Henderson and Ben King
BYOA, X-Initiative, New York, NY
2009
10th Anniversary Exhibition, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Parlour No. 9, Open Season, Parlour, New York, NY
ExpandTheRoom, Spin Magazine, New York, NY
Future Days, Rafik, New York, NY
Quality Service, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
2008
Good Times, Bad Times, Gardenfresh, Chicago, IL (two-person)
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, 31Grand, New York, NY
2007
Summer Salon, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
HotHouse, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Manipulations, Landmark Arts Gallery, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
Fountain, New York, NY
Multiples and Editions, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2006
Walk of Fame, Front Room Gallery , Brooklyn, NY (two-person)
Summer Sampler, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
PodART II, 31Grand at Fine Art in Space, New York, NY
Fountain, New York, NY
2005
Summer Salon, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Screen Grabs, Subdivision, New York, NY
2004
Collected: Art Faculty Art, John Hartell Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Combined Talents, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL
WMD, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2002
Eleven Bulls: NYCinDC, Decatur Blue, Washington DC
Night of 1000 Drawings, Artist Space, New York, NY
Majority Rules , Free Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, curators: Letha Wilson, Tara McDowell
2001
Banner Project, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
girl show, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
photo.soho, Exit Art, New York, NY
1999
Plain Brown Wrapper, ABC No Rio, New York, NY
International Juried Exhibition, NJ Center For Visual Arts, Summit, NJ, curator: Lisa Dennison
1998
New Artists from Cranbrook Alumni, Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan, curator: Michelle Grabner
Trans-, Network Gallery, Pontiac, MI
Trans- Korea, NC Gallery, Pusan, Korea
Bibliography
Lee, Nathanial, artforum.com, Critics Pick, “Your Content Will Return Shortly”, Franklin Street Works, March 2013
The New York Times, Art Listings, (with image), February 24, 2013, page 10
Siegel, Miranda, Art Agenda listing and editor’s pick, New York Magazine, February 4, 2013, page 83
Kreisinger, Elisa, “Art of the Analog Supercut”, Pop Culture Pirate, January 29, 2013
Gargan, Scott, “Exhibition looks at the ‘in between moments’ of TV viewing”, The Connecticut Post, January 17, 2013
Delgado, Jerome, “Épidémie culturelle”, Le Devoir, November 10, 2012
Tousignant, Isa, “Montreal-Brooklyn Brings Two Scenes Together”, The Montreal Buzz, November 2, 2012
Clément, Éric, “Re-Marquer le territoire á Articule: topographie identitaire”, LaPresse.ca, October 25, 2012
Samelson, Henry, Buddy of Work, blog post, July 13, 2012
Siegel, Miranda, Art Agenda listing and recommendation, New York Magazine, July 9, 2012, page 70
Huang, Chennie, “Nature”, CHReviews, July 3, 2012
Adams, Wayne, Emily Roz “The Rutting Season”, Site95, Volume 01, Issue 01, January 2012
Sutton, Benjamin, Editor’s Pick, L Magazine, September 14-27, 2011, Volume 9, Number 19, page 49
Siegel, Miranda, Art Agenda listing, New York Magazine, September 5, 2011, page 149
Gomez, Enrico, “September Openings in Brooklyn”, WAGMAG, September 2011
Ruby Mag #47, Argentina, featured artist, September 2010
Toth, Richard, “Emily Roz, Artist”, Joy Quarterly, Issue 4, Summer 2009, pages 24-31
Katz, Vincent, “The Women’s Room”, Apollo Magazine, May 2009, pages 58-59
Morse, Trent, Emily Roz “Kill the Beast” W+G Williamsburg News + Art, April 2009
Siegel, Miranda, Art Agenda listing, New York Magazine, March 2, 2009
Furnari, Rachel, “Good Times, Bad Times”, New City Chicago, March 20, 2008
Tin Parachute Postcard Review, Issue 5, featured artist, December 2007
Cyphers, Peggy, “Manipulations”, catalog essay, Manipulations, June 2007
Kalm, James and LaRocco, Ben “Art Basel Miami Beach 2006”, The Brooklyn Rail, February 2007
Bridge Art Fair, Miami, FL, catalog, December 2006
Clements, Erin, “Die Another Day”, Time Out New York, August 17-23, 2006
Nova Art Fair, Chicago, IL, catalog, April 2006
Lemur, Maia, “Fountain”, Juxtapoz, March 13, 2006
The Brooklyn Rail, September 2004, Cover
Powhida, William, “WMD, Front Room Gallery”, The Brooklyn Rail, July/August 2004
Dawson, Jessica, “Eleven Bulls, Charging Into Town”, The Washington Post, Oct. 17, 2002
Education
1998 MFA Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1992-93 Penland School of Crafts, Penland NC
1994 BA Hampshire College, Amherst, MA