Statement + Bio
Emily Endo’s multidisciplinary practice pulls from the disparate, yet conjoined, histories of science and mysticism. Using glass, organic media, and aroma molecules their work references the transformative relationships between body, material, and space. Adornment, corporeal self-expression, and the fragmented body intersect with historical and imagined material animacies to create mythopoetic objects and figures.
These ideas are expressed through the integration of hard and soft materials such as glass, metal, leather and horsehair with multisensory elements including liquid, fragrance, and kinetic mechanisms. The visual, cultural, kinesthetic, and chemical qualities of these materials compliment and contrast one another in harmonious tension. Glass, in particular, is a foundational element both conceptually and materially. The medium’s scientific lineage and its associations with preservation, fantasy and impermanence are woven into sculptures, installation and assemblage. Themes of metamorphosis, the passage of time and reaction to environmental stimuli are expressed through mimetic glass surfaces referencing stages of crystallization, condensation, accumulation, and erosion.
Emily Endo earned a MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2010 and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2006. Their work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as Bullseye Projects (Portland, OR/Latheronwheel, UK), Somserset House (London, UK), Harkawik (Los Angeles, CA), Neutra VDL House (Los Angeles, CA), LVL3 (Chicago, IL), the Museum of Contemporary Craft (Portland, OR), and Bellevue Museum of Art (Bellevue, WA). Endo has lectured at the Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR), Otis College of Art and Design (Los Angeles, CA), Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI), American Craft Council (Minneapolis, MN), Glass Art Society (Glasgow, UK), School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL), and Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY). Recent press includes Architectural Digest, Variable West, Dezeen, Art Ltd. Magazine, Frontrunner Magazine, American Craft Magazine, Interior Design Magazine, LVL3, and MAAKE. Endo lives and works in Joshua Tree, CA where they are the co-director of the High Desert Observatory.
Contact
contact@emilyendo.com
CV
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Shapeshifter, Norco College, Norco, CA
2019 Immaterial, Bullseye Projects, Portland, OR
2019 Water Baby, Dust to Dust, Portland, OR
2018 Gemini, PDX Contemporary Art Window Project, PDX Contemporary, Portland, OR
2016 Long Lost, Marlin and Regina Miller Art Gallery, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, Kutztown, PA
2016 Flower Time, Lillestreet Rooftop Project Space, Lillestreet Art Center, Chicago, IL
2014 The Realm of Quantifiable Truths, Bullseye Projects, Portland, OR
2013 Dark Element, Place Gallery, Portland, OR
2013 Hall of Conversion, Vestibule Gallery, Portland, OR
2011 Hylozoic, False Front Gallery, Portland, OR
2011 Tectonic, Portland Building, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland, OR
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024, Ghost Ship, Massey Klein, New York, NY
2024, 2023, Collect, Bullseye Projects, Somerset House, London, UK
2023, Charm Phase, MAAKE Projects, State College, PA
2023, Aterritorial, BoxoPROJECTS, Joshua Tree, CA
2022, Linen, Silk, and Pearls, LVL3, Chicago, IL
2021, Built-In, Neutra VDL House, Los Angeles, CA
2021, Jupiter Finger, Harkawik, Los Angeles, CA
2020, Echoes In Rain: Emily Endo and Hyun Jung Jun, LVL3, Chicago, IL
2019 Chlorine Tidal Wave, Field Projects, New York, NY
2018 Liquid Nails: Emily Endo and Martha Mysko, Elephant Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
2018 BAM Glass Biennial, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA
2018 I Say: Radical, You Say: Feminist, Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
2017 Symmetry Breaking, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR
2017 Transformations, Bullseye Projects, Portland, OR
2016 GeoMagic: Art, Science and the Zuhl Collection, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
2016 Permeable Structure, The Byre, Latheronwheel, Scotland, UK
2015 Across every reason a movement, Littman Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, OR
2015 Dark Ecologies, Bullseye Projects, Portland, OR
2015 State of Oregon Craft, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR
2014 Manipulated View: Images of the West, Sheppard Contemporary, University of Nevada, Reno, NV
2014 The Second International Glass Biennial, Minnestrista Cultural Center, Muncie, IN
2013 Durden and Ray: History Lessons, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR
2013 Isolated Growth: Emily Endo and Michael Endo, Toledo School for the Arts, Toledo, OH
2013 Chroma-Culture, Bullseye Projects, Portland, OR
2013 Natural Philosophy, Bullseye Resource Center, Emeryville, CA
2012 True Places, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
2012 Sticks and Stones, Soil Gallery, Seattle, WA
2012 Of Other Spaces: Emily Endo and Michael Endo, Bullseye Projects, Portland, OR
2012 Perceptual Control, Worksound Gallery, Portland, OR
2011 Glass House, Nudashank Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2010 Winter 2010 Emerging Artist Show, Rabbitholestudio, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Crane vs. Wolverine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2009 Wise Guise, Nudashank Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2008 Stories from the Woods, Current Space, Baltimore, MD
AWARDS
2023 Arts Innovator Micro Grant, Arts Connection, San Bernardino, CA
2020 Artist Relief Grant, United States Artists
2018 Project Grant Recipient, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR
2017 Finalist, Rare Craft Fellowship Award, American Craft Council
2015 Finalist, Contemporary Northwest Art Awards, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
2013 Artistic Focus Project Grant Recipient, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR
2013 Alice Rooney Scholarship Recipient, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
2011 Grant Recipient, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland Installation Space, Portland, OR
RESIDENCIES
2022 Artist-in-Residence, Township10, Marshall, NC
2021 Emerging Artist-in-Residence, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
2016 Artist-in-Residence, Wassaic Artist Residency, Wassaic, NY
2016 Artist-in-Residence, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, Kutztown, PA
2015 Artist-in-Residence, The Byre, Bullseye Projects, Latheronwheel, Scotland, UK
2015 Artist-in-Residence, Caldera Arts Center, Sisters, OR
2014 Artist-in-Residence, Museum of Contemporary Craft Storefront Residency, Portland, OR
2012 Artist-in-Residence, Worksound Gallery, Portland, OR
LECTURES + PANELS
2022 Lecturer, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2020 Panelist, Conversations on Craft, Rainmaker Craft Initiative
2020 Lecturer, Ceramics Department, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
2020 Lecturer, Art Department, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
2020 Lecturer, Butte College, Oroville, CA
2020 Visiting Artist, Applied Craft + Design MFA, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
2019 Lecturer, Joshua Tree National Park Council for the Arts, Joshua Tree, CA
2019 Lecturer, Bullseye Projects, Portland, OR
2018 Panelist, Take 5: The 5 Senses, Use All Five, Helms Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Visiting Artist and Lecturer, Art Department, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
2018 Visiting Artist, Ash Street Projects, Portland, OR
2017 Lecturer, Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts, Fairbanks, AK
2017 Lecturer, Glass Alliance of Northern California, Oakland, CA
2017 Lecturer, Library Salon Series, American Craft Council, Minneapolis, MN
2017 Panelist, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR
2017 Lecturer, Bullseye Projects, Portland, OR
2017 Moderator, Fashion and Technology Panel, Surface Design Association Conference, Portland State University, Portland, OR
2016 Lecturer, Artist Talks Series, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
2016 Lecturer, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
2016 Visiting Artist and Lecturer, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, Kutztown, PA
2015 Moderator and Co-Organizer, Conversations on Craft: Mending, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR
2015 Visiting Artist and Lecturer, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2015 Panelist, Dark Ecologies, Bullseye Projects, Portland, OR
2014 Visiting Artist and Lecturer, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
2014 Lecturer, The Scottish Glass Society, The Wasps Factory, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
2014 Lecturer, The Ream of Quantifiable Truths, Bullseye Gallery, Portland, OR
2014 Lecturer, Clark Art Talks: Artist and Scholar Lecture Series, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
2013 Panelist, Common Threads: Craft Perspectives Roundtable Discussion, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR
2013 Visiting Artist, Interlink Visiting Artist Lecture Series, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2013 Visiting Artist, Wilbur Wright College, City Colleges of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2012 Lecturer, Soil Gallery, Seattle, WA
CATALOGS + PRESS
2023 Joshua Treenial: Aterritorial, Exhibition Catalog, essay by Kóan Jeff Baysa and Bernard Leibov
2022 Art of Glass: Emily Endo Interviewed by May Maylisa Cat, Variable West
2022 Is Scent Styling the Next Big Thing? by Elizabeth Fazzare, Architectural Digest
2022 The Scent of the Desert by Maggie Downs, Palms Springs Life Magazine
2021 Built In at the Neutra VDL House by Vanessa Holyoak, Contemporary Art Review LA
2021 Built In at the Neutra VDL House by Lindsay Preston Zappas, KCRW Art Insider
2021 Creative People in Modernist Homes by Ben Kasum and Troy Kreiner, Use All Five
2019 Artist of the Week, LVL3, September 2019
2019 Immaterial: An interview with Emily Endo by Lindsay Costello, 60 Inch Center
2018 Art + Performance Quarterly, The Stranger
2018 A Lustrous Glow by Loren Nosan, Frontrunner Magazine
2018 Dust to Dust Art Space, Art & About PDX
2017 Interior Design Magazine
2017 Rare Form by Andrew Ranallo, American Craft Magazine
2017 Symmetry Breaking, Exhibition Catalog, essay by Sarah Margolis-Pineo, Marylhurst University
2017 Permeable Structures, Exhibition Catalog, essay by Tina Oldknow, Bullseye Projects
2015 New Directions in Glass by Sarah Margolis-Pineo, Art Ltd. Magazine
2015 Little Ghosts of Alchemy and Magic by Sarah Margolis-Pineo, Bad at Sports Blog
2014 Emily Endo, Sculptor/Installation Artist Documentary, Half Cut Tea Media
2014 Molecular: Conversion, Drain Magazine
2014 American Craft Magazine
2012 Of Other Spaces by Richard Speer, Art Ltd. Magazine
2012 Of Other Spaces by Katharine Morales, The Glass Quarterly Hot Sheet
2009 Art and Architecture by Rebecca Stevens, 944 Magazine
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2019 - Present, Co-Director/ Lead Instructor, High Desert Observatory, Yucca Valley, CA
2018 - 2020 Co-Director, Dust to Dust, Portland, OR
SELECTED TEACHING
2023 Instructor, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
2023 Guest Instructor, School of Art + Design, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2023, 2022 Guest Instructor, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Instructor, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA
2022 Instructor, Shiny Sparkle Labs, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Instructor, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
2018 Instructor, WildCraft Studio School, Portland, OR
2013 - 2018 Department Head/Assistant Professor, Fiber Department, Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR
2012 – 2018 Mentor/Committee Member, Applied Craft + Design MFA Program, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
2014, 2016 Instructor, North Lands Creative, Lybster, Scotland, UK
2015 Instructor, Caldera Arts Center, Sisters, OR
2010 - 2013 Adjunct Professor, Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR
EDUCATION
2010 MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2006 BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD