Emma Ferguson, M.F.A.
Department of Visual and Performing Arts
Painting
Education
M.F.A. in Painting, Pratt Institute, NY, 1999-2001.
B.A. in Fine Arts in Painting, Universidad Complutense of Madrid, 1988-1994.
抖阴pro Awards and Delacroix Grant Award, Pratt Institute, NY, 2000 -2001.
Grant from 鈥渓a Caixa鈥� Fellowship Foundation to study at Pratt Institute, NY, (1999-2001)
VII Landscape Painting Course - Grant from the Painting Department, U.C.M., 1994.
Practice Areas
- Painting, drawing, photography & mixed media.
Research Interests
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Visiting speaker in The Artist as an Entrepreneur for the Studio Barcelona: The Artist鈥檚 perspective, Visual Art Course, University of New Haven Study Abroad Program, Barcelona, 2018. Speaker in Horizons: Talks & Lectures: 鈥�C贸mo emprender en el Arte y no morir en el intento鈥�, Caixaforum, Madrid. 2015
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Visual Arts Workshops, Let鈥檚 go creative, Exhibition Roni Horn, La Caixa Fellows Association, Caixaforum, Madrid, 2015. Studio Art Workshops. Art Workshop, Galer铆a Lucia Mendoza, Madrid, 2013. Masquelibros, Artist Book Art Fair, COAM, Madrid, 2012-2014. Creative Inspiration Workshop, Master in Textile and Surfaces Design, Instituto Europeo de Dise帽o, Madrid, 2009.
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Teaching Assistant, IV C谩tedra Juan Gris Workshop, invited artist program: Christiane Lohr, and video artists Gary Hill and George Quasha, U.C.M., Madrid.
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Painting Research at Fundaci贸n Olivar de Castillejo, Madrid. 2004-2006.
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Artist Assistant, Fran Siegel studio, (Margaret Thatcher Projects Gallery), NY, 2000. Studio Artist Assistant of painter Antonio Murado, (Von Lintel Gallery), NY, 2001. Directed Research, with painter Ross Neher, Painting Faculty at Pratt Institute, NY, 2000.Member of La Caixa Fellowship Program, Caixaforum, Madrid.
Publications and Media Placements
Gallery representation
2011- to the present by the Cadogan Contemporary Gallery, London. Reviews
Xoowmagazine, Emma Ferguson - Planets at La Neomudejar Art Residency, Madrid, 2013/14.
Lisa Galuer, The original Artist group 鈥�6鈥� expands logically (including works of Emma Ferguson), written for the exhibition catalogue, Williamsburg
Art and Historical Center, July 2000.
Illustrations commissioned by the magazine CLAVES, editions: 190-196, Im谩genes en Movimiento I-VIII, October 2009.
Group Exhibitions
2013 The Sketchbook Project, Brooklyn Art Library, NY. 2012 Rina Bowen Gallery 20th
Anniversary, Madrid./ 2011 Winter Exhibition Cadogan Contemporary & 2011 Summer Exhibition
Cadogan Contemporary Gallery, London./ 2011 Art x Haiti, Fundraising for Haiti, Casa
Encendida, Madrid./ 2009 My house has turned into an artwork!, Pelayo 2, (collaboration
with artist: H茅l猫n Picard) Madrid./
2008 Fronteras, Colectivo La Balsa, C铆rculo de Bellas Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife./ 2005 Flat Files, Pierogi 2000, Williamsburg, NY./ 2001 Cheap Art, The Cave, Williamsburg, NY./
2001 Open Studios, Steuben East Studio, Pratt Institute, NY./ 2000 6x2=13, Williamsburg
Art and Historical Center, NY.
Solo Exhibitions
2016 The book of Stains, Masquelibros, Artist Book Fair, Madrid./
2015 Fluid Planets, La Neomudejar, Centro de Artes de Vanguardia, Madrid./ 2010 Galaxies, Galer铆a Rina Bouwen, Madrid./ 2009 Multifaceted Relations,
Galer铆a El Mono de la Tinta, Madrid./ 2009 Drawing Abstractions, Centro Cultural Caleidoscopio, Madrid./ 2005 Nature Abstractions I & II, Fundaci贸n El Olivar de Castillejo, Madrid./ 2001 Thesis Exhibition, Steuben East Gallery, Pratt Institute, NY.