Curriculum Vitae
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
- 2024 – “Unearth,” Karen Perl, Emily Rapport, and Gwendolyn Zabicki, Cleve Carney Museum of Art, Glen Ellyn, IL
- 2021 – “Still Open: ink paintings by Emily Rapport,” Solo Exhibition, Eat Paint Studio, Chicago, IL
- 2021 – “Relentless,” Group Exhibition, Hofheimer Gallery, Chicago, IL
- 2018 Rockford Midwestern Biennial, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
- 2017 “Subject to Change: Urban Landscape and the Architecture of Place,” Solo Exhibition, Firecat Projects, Chicago, IL
- 2016 “House and Home,” Group Exhibition, Main Street Gallery, Clifton Springs, NY
- 2014 Labletter Launch Exhibition, Group Exhibition, hosted by the Labletter Journal of Art and Literature, Chicago, IL
- 2011 “SICK!,” Group Exhibition, Leo Kogan Project Space, Amsterdam
- 2005 Art Murmur Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 2002 “The Human Spirit”, Group Exhibition, Gallery 15, Rochester, NY
- 1996 “Figurative Painting Today,” Solo Exhibition, Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester, NY
PUBLICATIONS + WRITING
- Memory and Meaning: William Dolan and Karen Perl in “Chicago Streets and Ways”, published April 12, 2020, New Art Examiner
- Different for Girls: “Touch Your Mirror” Reflects on Female Adolescence, published April 5, 2020, New Art Examiner
- Distilled Magazine, Issue 8, Fall 2019
- “Peach House,” featured in Showtime Series, The Chi
- Studio Visit Magazine, Issue 41, Open Studios Press, 2018
- American Scholar Magazine, Winter 2018 Issue
CURATORIAL
- 2021 – Inscapes, group exhibition of work by Claire Elliott, Vanessa Shinmoto, and Alexandra Stevenson at Eat Paint Studio, 5036 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago. Exhibition essay published on EatPaintStudio.com.
- 2019 – THIRST, group exhibition of work by Tamara Wasserman, Cynthia Weiss, Lea Basille-Lazarus at Eat Paint Studio, 5036 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago. Exhibition essay published on EatPaintStudio.com
- 2019 – Wide Awake Dreaming, photographs by Andrew Steiner at Eat Paint Studio, 5036 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago. Exhibition essay published on EatPaintStudio.com
- 2019 – Marion Kryczka: Paintings and Drawings, exhibition by Marion Kryczka at Eat Paint Studio, 5036 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago. Exhibition essay published on EatPaintStudio.com
- 2019 – MY WAY, exhibition of work by international artist and musician Bo Whang at Eat Paint Studio, 5036 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago
- 2012 – The Labletter, February 2013 Issue, Guest Painting Editor
PRESS
- “The House as a Subject of Portraiture,” an Essay Exploring the Recent Painting of Emily Rapport, by Vicki Schneider, published in Neoteric Art, June 2018
- “Emily Rapport at Firecat Projects,” Unpublished New City Art Reviews, by Chris Miller, May 2017
- “Interview with Emily Rapport,” Neoteric Art blog, January 2011
- “The Human Spirit,” exhibition review, Ron Netsky, City Newspaper, Rochester, NY
COLLECTIONS
- Lipman Hearne, Chicago, IL
- Permanent installation at Delilah’s, Chicago, IL
EDUCATION
- 2005 BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
- 1994-95 Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY
AWARDS // GRANTS
- 2015 IAP Grant, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, IL
- 2011 Arts Advocate Award, Ravenswood ArtWalk, Chicago, IL
- 2006 CAAP Grant, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, IL