EMILY COUNTS

Emily Counts was born in Seattle, WA, where she currently lives and works. She studied at the Hochschule der Kunste in Berlin and the California College of the Arts, where she received her BFA. Drawing on craft traditions she creates ceramic and mixed media sculptures that explore connectivity, identity, memory, and merging a sense of the past with the futuristic. Her work has been exhibited nationally in institutions including the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, the Torrance Art Museum in California, at Oregon Contemporary in Oregon, and in Washington at the Bellevue Arts Museum. Her largest solo project to date will open in February 2023 at the Museum of Museums in Seattle, WA. Counts has received grants from Artist Trust, the Oregon Arts Commission, the Regional Arts & Culture Council, and The Ford Family Foundation. She was an artist in residence at Raid Projects in Los Angeles, Plane Space in New York, and a 2020 resident at the Varda Artists Residency Program in Sausalito, CA. A past member of SOIL Gallery in Seattle, WA, and Durden and Ray in Los Angeles, CA, Counts is currently represented by Nationale in Oregon and studio e in Washington.

PAST SOLO EXHIBITION: FIELD STUDIES, FALL 2022
PAST SOLO EXHIBITION: SOUVENIR, 2021
PAST PERFORMANCE: PARTY STORE/SUPER MODE, 2018
PAST SOLO EXHIBITION: FORM FACTOR, 2017
PAST SOLO EXHIBITION: THE INS AND OUTS, 2015
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