Emily Harter

Emily Harter makes paintings, drawings, prints, and ceramics. Influenced by convergent backgrounds in painting, printmaking and art history, her work depicts worlds populated by hedonistic shape-shifters and ruled by cartoon logic. Drawing from, and at times directly quoting, a wide array of references, including antique-mall kitsch, Flemish tapestries, the satirical prints of Hogarth and Daumier, and Golden Age animation, she aims to interrogate identity, obligation, and that ol’ horizon of desire.

Harter’s work has been shown throughout the United States, including solo exhibitions at Hesse Flatow in NYC, OCHI Projects in LA, and Cleaner Gallery in Chicago, IL. She has published etchings with Hoofprint Studios in Chicago, IL and Bohemian Press at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN. She was the recipient of the 2020 MAPC Travel Grant and has been a resident artist at Lighthouse Works in Fisher’s Island, NY, Arts, Letters, and Numbers in Averill Park, NY, and After 1920 in San Diego, CA. She is a co-founder of Pigeon Hole Press in Chicago, IL, which produces and publishes fine art intaglio prints. Currently she lives in San Francisco CA with one dog and two cats and is pursuing an MFA in Art Practice at Stanford University.