Emily Silver
Raised in Boulder, Colorado, Emily Silver received an MFA in painting from San Francisco Art Institute (2007) and a BA in Visual Design from Stanford University (1973). Her exhibition history includes solo shows at Mojave National Preserve; Piante Gallery in Eureka (California); McKinley Arts & Culture Center in Reno; Springs Preserve in Las Vegas; The Painting Center in New York; Morris Graves Museum of Art in Eureka; and Nevada State capitol galleries. She has won artist residencies in Mojave National Preserve, Joshua Tree National Park, Playa Summer Lake, (Oregon), and Virginia City (Capitol City Arts Initiative). Other awards include Best of Show (Morris Graves Museum of Art); a Cadogan Fellowship (San Francisco Foundation); a Kosciuszko Foundation Scholarship; an Artists Grant (Sierra Arts Foundation); and a Wolf Kahn fellowship to Vermont Studio Center. Her paintings appeared in Catamaran (2013), and monographs on her work were published by Capital City Arts Initiative (“Cartographer of Stone, Silence, and Dust,” by Shaun T. Griffin); and Springs Preserve (“Periphery” by Robert Dorgan). She has been featured in group exhibitions including at Morris Graves Museum of Art (Eureka, California); Watercolor USA (Springfield Art Museum, Missouri); Museum of Northwest Art (LaConner, Washington); Campfire Gallery (San Francisco); Quercus Gallery (Oakland); and Conrad Wilde Gallery (Tucson). She curated “Here and There: Topographic Conversations with Morris Graves” at Museum of Northwest Art & Morris Graves Museum of Art; “Nine Square Grid” at San Francisco Art Institute; and “Cairns, Quilts, Contact: Women Artists of the West” at Ink People Center for the Arts in Eureka. She taught visual arts at College of the Redwoods (2007-17); Western Nevada College in Carson City (1990-97); and Washington State University (1981-1989) as well as in prisons in all three states. Currently she divides her time between studios in Ferndale, California, and Kingston, Nevada.
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