Bio
EDUCATION
2007 – 2009 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (MFA)
1994 -1998 Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (BA)
Spring 1997 Parsons Paris School of Design, Paris, France
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 It will never be known how this has to be told, Steve Turner Contemporary, LA, CA
2009 Everything, Nothing, Something, Always (Walla!), Performa 09, New York, NY
2009 Everything, Nothing, Something, Always (Walla!), USC Roski Gallery, LA, CA
2008 Looking For Something New To Long For, USC Roski Gallery, LA, CA
2005 You & Me Simultaneously, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
2002 Remember, Paris Project Room, Paris, France
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980, LA, CA
2010 Instant LA Summer, Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art, LA, CA
2010 Perform! Now! China Town, LA, CA
2010 Love Letter To A Surrogate, Torrence Art Museum, LA, CA
2010 Volume, At1 Art Projects, LA, CA
2010 The Third Thing, AS220, Providence, RI
2010 Covers, Five Thirty Three, LA, CA
2009 Exquisite Corpse, or, The Show That Curates Itself, Mihai Nicodim Gallery, LA, CA
2009 Yes, Exhibition Art Initiative, New York, NY
2009 Let’s Meet In Real Life, Capricious Space, Brooklyn, NY
2009 CAA LA Area MFA Exhibition, USC Roski Gallery, LA, CA
2008 It’s Easy To Find, PO Box 116, Elizaville, NY
2008 Strange Ranger, Circus Gallery, LA, CA
2008 Egoesdayglo, Five Thirty Three, LA, CA
2007 Eureka!, USC Roski Gallery, LA, CA
2007 La Bibliothèque Rose, Folies, Paris, France
2006 Manifesta 6: European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus (cancelled)
2006 Roscher, The Office of Dr. Leigh Haskell, Phds, Skowhegan, ME
2006 Border Mates and Cake, Pasteleria Sta. Teresita, Guadalajara, Mexico
2004 Nuit Blanche, Péniche Antipode, Paris, France
2004 Super Salon, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
PERFORMANCES
2010 Emily Mast by Emily Mast & Jerome Bel, Human Resources, LA, CA
2010 Will you still love me tomorrow?, At1 Art Projects, LA, CA
2010 Cold Feet, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2010 This is This, AS220, Providence, RI
2010 To Crack A Nut Is Truly No Feat, Parks Exhibition Center, Idyllwild, CA
2010 The Show Must Go On! (Again), Five Thirty Three, LA, CA
2009 Everything, Nothing, Something, Always (Walla!), Performa 09, New York, NY
2009 Yes, Exhibition Art Initiative, New York, NY
2009 Bread, Water, Laughter, Mihai Nicodim Gallery, LA, CA
2009 Everything, Nothing, Something, Always (Walla!), USC Roski Gallery, LA, CA
2008 Looking For Something New To Long For, USC Roski Gallery, LA, CA
2007 *, USC Roski Gallery, LA, CA
2007 Eureka!, USC Roski Gallery, LA, CA
2007 Third Wind, Mountain Bar, LA, CA
2006 This Is the Rhythm of the Night, Lake Wesserunsett, Skowhegan, ME
AWARDS / RESIDENCIES
2010 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2009 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
2007-2009 USC Roski School of Fine Art Teaching Assistantship
2007 United Nations Plaza, Berlin, Germany
2007 Mountain School of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Manifesta 6 Temporary Art School, Nicosia, Cyprus (cancelled)
2006 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1999 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2008 EGOESDAYGLO, Five Thirty Three, LA, CA
LECTURES / PANEL DISCUSSIONS
2010 California State University Northridge, College of Humanities
2010 Audience Experiments: Contemporary Art in the Age of Spectacle, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2010 Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2010 Idyllwild Arts Academy, Idyllwild, CA
2009 Montana State University MFA Program, Bozeman, MT
PRINT & PRESS
2010 Carol Cheh, “Love Letters to a Surrogate, presented by Warren Neidich, Torrance Art Museum” , (http://anotherrighteoustransfer.wordpress.com/)
2010 “Emily Mast”, (http://performanceartworld.wordpress.com/2010/06/27/emily-mast/), June
2010 Tyler Coburn, “Future Greats: Emily Roysdon, My Barbarian, Vishal Jugdeo, Emily Wardill, Emily Mast”, March
2009 Graham T. Beck, “Performa 09 in Review: Part 1”, Frieze, December
2009 WFMU / Night People Interviews Emily Mast, November 5 (http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/33539#comments)
2009 Jonathan Maghen, Ed., MFA 2009, University of Southern California, LA, CA
2009 Aleksandra Mir, The How Not to Cookbook, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2009 The New Millennium Paper Airplane Book, Public Art Fund, NY
2009 When you cut into the Present the Future leaks out, One Star Press (Paris) in collaboration with PS1, New York
2008 thisisdreamingalso.com (edited by Emily Mast)
2007 Timothy Ivison, “Notes on Eclat”, Facsimile Magazine, December
2007 Peter Hellman, “Bogus Bottles”, Art & Auction, August (photo)
2006 Radio Ibero / Good Morning Santa Fe in Mexico City, September 8
2006 Textfield, July issue, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2006 Pazmaker, Issue N*2, Mexico City, Mexico
2005 Cate McQuaid, “Artist Provokes by Playing With Her Subjects’ Identities”, Boston Globe, December 16
2005 Big Red and Shiny, “First Friday @ SOWA”, December
2005 Marcel Wallace, Paris Project Room Archives (photo)
2005 Blanche, Number 3, winter (photo)
2004 www.u-blog.net/Puzzle/note/64
2004 Les Inrockuptibles, supplement cadeau, December
2004 The Improper Bostonian, April 14-27 (photo)
2003 Paris Obs, no° 2008, May 1-7 (photo)
COLLECTIONS
MoMA Library, New York, NY
Roski School of Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA