artist bio
Emily Setelin is an interdisciplinary artist specializing in alternative process photography, metal work, and community engagement through food. Her work explores the ideas behind permanency and the forgotten, the things we leave behind that still exist, and the connections we create during our lives. Within this exploration, she focuses on the crossovers between metal work and film photography and how they can be used to convey immortality, as well as the ability of food to act as a vehicle for connection and change. Emily Setelin is currently living and working in New York, New York.
curriculum vitae
EDUCATION:
2019
BFA Studio Art, Minor in Art History, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
College of Visual and Performing Arts Research Grant Recipient, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
Senior Achievement Award- Photo Area, James Madison University CVPA, Harrisonburg, VA
Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities a2ru Conference, Harrisonburg, VA
umbau Krakow Studio, Krakow, Poland
2018
Creative Fellow, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities a2ru Conference, Baton Rouge, LA
2015
Scholarship, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2018
Grace Street Gallery, BFA Capstone Thesis, Harrisonburg, VA
withSimplicity Beauty, “Amber of the Moment”, Harrisonburg, VA
2017
Private Collection, Richmond, VA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2019
Clementine Cafe, “Emotion”, Harrisonburg, VA
Grace Street Gallery, “Fool’s Gold”, Harrisonburg, VA
Duke Hall, “Hush”, Harrisonburg, VA
artWorks Gallery, “Chromography”, Harrisonburg, VA
1708 Gallery at the Linden Row Inn, “New Faces III”, Richmond, VA
2018
artWorks Gallery, “Emerging and Emerged” with Corinne Diop, Harrisonburg, VA
2017
Grace Street Gallery, “Aging” with the Metal Shed CoLab, Harrisonburg, VA
Laughing Dog Studios. CISR “Recovery”, Harrisonburg, VA
artWorks Gallery, “Present”, Harrisonburg, VA
2016
DHUB, “Pop-Up Crit” with the Metal Shed CoLab, Harrisonburg, VA
Festival Student Center, “Pop-Up Crit” with the Metal Shed CoLab, Harrisonburg, VA
