Emma Steinkraus Assistant Professor of Art

Wilson Hall 4028
esteinkraus@wlu.edu
Website - Curriculum Vitae

Education

University of Iowa
M.F.A., Painting and Drawing with an Intermedia Concentration, 2016

Williams College
B.A., Highest Honors in Studio Art, 2010

Research

Emma Steinkraus makes colorful figure paintings and installations that explore ecology, gender, and the history of science. One recent project, Impossible Garden, highlighted the contributions of early women artist-naturalists through paintings and a panoramic wallpaper collaged from their depictions of flora and fauna. A digital art history project based on Impossible Garden was published by Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide and can be explored here.

Steinkraus’s work is represented by 1969 Gallery in New York, NY, and has been included in recent exhibitions at Deanna Evans Project (New York, NY), Monti 8 Gallery (Latina, Italy), Hashimoto Contemporary (Los Angeles, CA), and Field Projects Gallery (New York, NY). She has received artist residencies at the Studios at MASS MoCA, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Blue Mountain Center, among many others. Recent awards include the Eliza Moore Fellowship at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation in 2020 and a Helen Frankenthaler Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center in 2022.

Teaching

• Painting
• Drawing
• Design

Select Solo Exhibitions

2023 TBD, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY (upcoming)

2021 Impossible Garden, 1969 Gallery, Project Space, New York, NY

Select Group Exhibitions

2022 Somebody, Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA (upcoming) Exit 26, Monti 8 Gallery, Latina, Italy

        Drew Dodge + Emma Steinkraus, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY

2021 House Party, Deanna Evans Project, Brooklyn, NY

       I am afraid to own a body, Poker Flats, Williamstown, MA

       A Collective Escape, Deanna Evans Project, Brooklyn, NY

2020 Seasonal Repression, Field Projects Gallery, New York, NY

       Saturation, SoLA Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA

       Vanishing, This Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

       Remembrance Species, Lunetario Editorial, Puebla City, Mexico

2018 Super Natural, Warner Gallery, Millbrook, NY

2016 Body Language, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA

2015 AIR Show, Pajama Factory, Williamsport, PA

2014 Sunset, Arkansas, 21c Museum Hotel, Bentonville, AR

        From the Studios, Dadian Gallery, Washington DC

2011 Bethesda Painting Awards, Artery Plaza Gallery, Bethesda, MD

        Nest, Target Gallery at the Torpedo Factory, VA

2010 This Goes on the Refrigerator, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA