Gregg Vance Emery

Gregg Emery was born and raised in Bombay, NY, a small rural community alongside the Mohawk reserve that straddles the border of the U.S. and Canada. After completing an apprenticeship at the Fabric Workshop in Philadelphia and completing graduate work at the Maryland Institute, College of Art, Emery worked in the mountains of Japan to assist in the construction of a house and art studios for a residence program there.
For the past 20 years, Emery has called New York City his home. He maintains a studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn while living and teaching on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He is the Head of Visual Arts & Art History at the Trinity School, a prestigious K-12 independent school where he also teaches painting and drawing.

Emery continues a practice of drawing people for himself and for several venues around the New York and abroad. Most notably, for the Poetry Brothel, an interactive, immersive theater experience that started in New York and is now featured in 26 cities worldwide. He has been the ‘official painter’ in New York since 2014 (which tours up and down the east coast) and has appeared in shows in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Rejkyavik, LA, Austin and San Diego. He is also a member of the Board of Director...

EDUCATION

M.F.A. 1997 Drawing & Painting Mt. Royal School of Art, Maryland Institute, College of Art
B.A. 1994 Studio Art Hartwick College

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

1996 Goya Girl Press, Baltimore, MD

1997 Artist’s Colony, Fukushima, Japan

2008 Blue Mountain Lake Arts Center, NY

2016 Brickyard Arts Residency, Beijing, China

2019 SCOPE, Miami Beach, Contemporary Art
Projects USA
2019 Bushwick Open Studios, Bushwick,
Brooklyn
2019 The Hamilton, Collaborative Group Show,
NYC
2018 Art New York, Pier 94, Vogelsang Gallery
2018 Solo Show, Milk Press Gallery, Miami,
during Art Basel Week
2018 CUBE Art Fair, Zaha Hadid Building,
Chelsea, NY
2018 KAIROS event, group show, One World
Trade, NYC
2018 All Art & A New Beginning, Group Show,
Van Der Plas Gallery, LES, NYC
2017 CUBE Art Fair, Brussels, Belgium
2017 10th Annual Governors Island Art Fair,
NYC
2017 Single Fare, Group Show, Chelsea NYC
2017 ‘Great Wave’ Roosevelt Island painting
commission
2017 Commission, White & Case, LLP, NY, NY
2016 CUBE art fair, Brussels, Belgium
2016 Solo Exhibit, Brickyard, Mutianyu, China
2016 Agora Gallery, Chelsea, NYC
2015 Beasts Abstract Not, Great Jones Gallery,
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