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an emard was born to a working-class family in suburban Micqanaqa’n andChumash Land / Ventura, CA. They spent their formative years navigating queerness in the shadow of the Catholic Church and the light of lemon orchards, asphalt, and the Pacific Ocean. They believe that as a queer person their role is to be a vessel, a storyteller, and that queerness is a knowing that allows holdings of the extremes of this dimension. Queerness is a knowledge that is an act of love and care, and through these alchemical processes they are able to find meaning. They now reside on the unceded homelands of the people of the Council of Three Fires, the Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa as well as the Menominee, Miami and Ho-Chunk nations / Chicago, IL.

Contact:
anemard00@gmail.com

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Education
Northwestern University, MFA, 2022
Bennington College, BA, 2014

Exhibitions

The River Is..., Some Clouds, Los Angeles, CA, 2021
Elixir, Terrain Biennial, Chicago, IL 2021
The World is Full of Wonder, Some Clouds, Los Angeles, CA, 2019
All The Small Things, Steve Turner, Los Angeles, CA, 2017
All-In, Club Pro, Los Angeles, CA, 2016
Skin Ego, Skibum MacArthur, Los Angeles, CA, 2016
If Not Now, When, Usdan Gallery, Bennington, VT, 2015

Special Projects
High Desert Test Sites, Swap-Meet, organized by Lydia Glenn-Murray, 2017
Chin’s Push Artist Residency, Summer Resident, 2016
Co-curator, WACKing the Piñata, ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 2016

Awards
Graduate Research Grant, Northwestern University, 2021
Ed Paschke Graduate Research Grant, 2021
Ed Paschke Graduate Research Grant, 2020

Press
Recommended Downtown Openings and Events, For Your Art, 11 Aug 2016
Sharsten Pledge, Last-Look: WACKing the Piñata, WOAH, 11 Aug 2016
Lindsay Preston Zappas, Skin Ego at Skibum MacArthur, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (CARLA), 21 July 2016
The Silo Art Journal, May 2015