Biography

Emily Ginsburg was born in New York, New York. She received her BA in Art History from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1986 and an MFA in Printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in 1991.

Her work explores the relationship between physical, spoken and written evidence of behavioral patterns in the context of the everyday. She utilizes a broad range of media from work on paper to objects, multiples, installations and interactive pieces involving video and sound. Recently, she completed a public art project in Seattle for Seattle City Light, received a travel grant to London, was awarded a full fellowship for an artist in residency at Vermont Studio Center, is currently working on a new public art commission for the city of Portland, exhibits nationally and internationally and has been reviewed in publications such as Art Papers and ArtUS.

Ginsburg is currently an Associate Professor and Chair of the Intermedia Department at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon.