Emily Ginsburg is a conceptually driven maker who works with diverse media exploring human behavioral patterns and how meaning is perpetually entangled with mass media platforms, embodiment, and daily rituals. Her work was published in Data Flow and The Map as Art and her exhibitions have been reviewed in Artillery Magazine, ArtandAboutPDX, Ceramics Now, Oregon ArtsWatch, The Portland Mercury, Art Papers, Art US, and The 22 Magazine, amongst others.
Recent solo exhibitions include Metabolic at SE Cooper Contemporary, a site-specific installation in Siena Italy in 2023, and group exhibitions at the Oregon Jewish Museum, Center for Holocaust education in 2024/2025. In 2024, Ginsburg was awarded an Open Studio residency at Haystack Mountain Center for Craft and will be doing a residency at Township10 in North Carolina in 2026. She has also completed commissions for public art projects at Seattle City Light and Portland State University.
While at MacDowell, Ginsburg worked in multiple media and continued work on her ceramic sculpture series Metabolic, new paintings, a site responsive installation, and short performative video and sound pieces.
