Emily Prince (born 1981) is an American artist based in

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...

. Her art consists mainly of

drawing Drawing is a form of visual art in which an artist uses instruments to mark paper or other two-dimensional surface. Drawing instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, various kinds of paints, inked brushes, colored pencils, crayons, ...

s which make up larger installations; these works are often site-specific and incorporate a documentation of time passing.

Personal life and education

Prince was born in 1981 in Gold Run, California. She is married t
artist Shaun O'Dell
and has a son, Leon Lee Prince. She graduated from

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

in 2003, where she received the Raina Giese Award in Creative Painting. She completed her MFA in 2008 from

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

Career

Prince was part of the 2007

Venice Biennale The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...

, showing a multitude of small portraits depicting soldiers killed in

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...

and

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

. The piece, titled ''American Servicemen and Women Who Have Died in Iraq and Afghanistan (But Not Including the Wounded, Nor the Iraqis nor the Afghans)'', was purchased by the Saatchi Gallery an
on exhibit
in 2010. As of 2010, the piece had 5,213 portraits. Previous projects include a series of drawings cataloguing all the items in her apartment, in definitive categories.

Selected exhibitions

2009 * "The Way it Used to Be",

Kent Fine Art Kent Fine Art is an Contemporary art gallery, art gallery in New York City founded in 1985 by Douglas Walla. About Founded in 1985, Kent Fine Art opened at the corner of Madison & 57th Street in the Fuller Building, New York. Since 57th Street, ...

, New York 2007 * ''1998 A Short Show About Something'', Red Mill Gallery, Vermont 2006 * ''Familiar'', Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco * ''Kapital'', Kent Gallery, New York * ''The Birthday Project'', Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco 2005 * ''Bay Area Now 4'', Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2004 * ''The Bay Area Show'', Art Institute of Detroit * ''The San Francisco Show'', New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles * ''Around around every day'', Backroom Gallery, San Francisco * ''See The Line Inside'', Whitney Biennial (Cupcake Café), New York

References

External links

*Emily Prince o
ArtFacts.net
*Images, biography and texts from th

*Website for Prince’s ongoing projec
The American Servicemen and Women
*Kent Fine Art: Emily Princ

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