Emily Prince


Emily Prince is an American artist based in San Francisco. Her art consists mainly of drawings 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 to and has a son, Leon Lee Prince. She graduated from Stanford University in 2003, where she received the Raina Giese Award in Creative Painting. She completed her MFA in 2008 from University of California, Berkeley.

Career

Prince was part of the 2007 Venice Biennale, showing a multitude of small portraits depicting soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. The piece, titled American Servicemen and Women Who Have Died in Iraq and Afghanistan , was purchased by the Saatchi Gallery and 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, 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, New York