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Education
2007 MFA in Visual Studies, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
2001 BA in The Integration of Arts in Education, Oberlin College
Solo Exhibitions
2017
Emmett Ramstad, Rosalux Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2016
Touching Each Other, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
After You, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN (catalogue)
2014
Knowing You Unknown, Eye Lounge Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2013
Watching You Watching Me, Eye Lounge Project Room, Phoenix, AZ
Intimately Preserved, John J. Wilcox Jr. Archive Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2007
Becoming, Femina Potens Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005
Drains, Jon Sims Center for Performing Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Group Exhibitions
2017
Making Room, Quarter Gallery, Regis Center for the Arts, Minneapolis, MN
2016
Jerome Fellowship Exhibition, MCAD, Minneapolis, MN
He, She, They, Ze, Arcade Gallery, Chicago, IL
2015
Transgender Hirstory in 99 Objects, ONE Archives, Los Angeles, CA
Culture Wars Then and Now, Patrick’s Cabaret, Minneapolis, MN
2014
Bay Area Now 7, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
thinking, making, living, The Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2013
The Demography of Us, Eye Lounge Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Consumerism, Glendale Gallery, Glendale, AZ
Ephemeral Sprawl, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
Zeitgeist, SOMARTS Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Wayfinder: Forging Identity, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Lost & Found: Transgender Image Making, IHLIA, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Second State, Second Edition, Second State Press Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2012
Doing Your Dirty Work, The Center for Sex and Culture, San Francisco, CA
Collage, The Latvian Society, Philadelphia, PA
Casting, Philadelphia Sculpture Gym, Philadelphia, PA
Pop-Up Museum of Queer History, William Way Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Dead Drops, Little Berlin Gallery and public locations, Philadelphia, PA
2011
New York Queer Experimental Film Festival, Mix Factory, New York, NY
5 Objects and a Story, Million Fishes Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Radiance, Madame Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2010
Beast, Million Fishes Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Private Parts, Solano Community College, Fairfield, CA
2009
Grown & Sexy, Northrup King Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Polemics of Love, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Threaded, MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams, MA
Threads, SOMARTS Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Defying Gravities, Fresh Meat in the Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Queer Craft, Advocate & Gochis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Cynosure, The Spare Room Project, San Francisco, CA
Queerity, Million Fishes Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Makul (Reasonable), Hafriyat Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Riots and Revelations, Fresh Meat in the Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007
MFA Thesis Exhibition, SooVac Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Twin Cities Pride, Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
2006
Deviant Bodies 2.0, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Vice and Virtue, Concourse Gallery, MCAD, Minneapolis, MN
Gender/Identity, ALL Gallery, New Haven, CT
Engendered Species, CSU and The Advocate Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Fresh Meat in the Gallery, ODC Theater Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Pohoshow, Shoebox Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Made at MCAD, Main Gallery, MCAD, Minneapolis, MN
2005
Fresh Meat in the Gallery, ODC Theater Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004
Reversing Vandalism, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA
Strap ‘Em Down: The World of Drag Kings, YBCA, San Francisco, CA
Awards
2016 Next Step Fund Grant, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, St. Paul, MN
2015 Emerging Artist Fellowship, Jerome Foundation, Minneapolis, MN
2014 Professional Development Grant, Arizona Commission for the Arts, Phoenix, AZ
2012 Art for Social Change Grant, Leeway Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
2006 Honorable Mention, Made @ MCAD Exhibition, MCAD, Minneapolis, MN
2005 MFA Opportunity Grant, MCAD, Minneapolis, MN
Residencies
2012 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2010 MANCC, Tallahassee, FL
Les Subsistance, Lyon, France
2009 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
MANCC, Tallahassee, FL
K3, Hamburg, Germany
Costume, Set Design and Performance
2016 I Don’t Normally Do This, The Southern Theater, Minneapolis, MN
2013 Symptom, CounterPulse, San Francisco, CA
2012 Super Nature, Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis; Abrons Art Center, New York; Store Front Theater, Chicago
Pleasure Rebel, Bryant Lake Bowl, Minneapolis, MN
2011 Symptom, PS122, New York (with The BodyCartography Project)
Mammal, Les Subsistances, Lyon, France (with The BodyCartography Project)
Sister Spit, Bryant Lake Bowl, Minneapolis, MN (with Sinan Goknur)
2009 Heaven, Diverse Works, Houston; Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis; PS 122, New York, On the Boards, Seattle
(with Morgan Thorson)
½ Life, The Southern Theater, Minneapolis; PS 122, New York (with The BodyCartography Project)
Curatorial Projects
2013 HOTDOG! Second State Press Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2012 Trans|Post, William Way Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Tuesday Smillie: Free Our Siblings, Free Ourselves, WWCC, Philadelphia, PA
2011 5 Objects and a Story, Million Fishes Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009 Chicken, The Spare Room Project, San Francisco, CA
Size Never Mattered/ Size Always Matters, Million Fishes Gallery, San Francisco, CA (co-curated with Ace Lehner, Crow Cianciola, Torreya Cummings, Micah Bazant, James Giotta and Dallas Kavanagh)
2004 Parts, New College Cultural Center Gallery, San Francisco, CA (co-curated with Shana Agid)
Public Collections
The Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
Minneapolis College of Art and Design Permanent Collection, Minneapolis, MN
Second State Press, Philadelphia, PA
Teaching Experience
2016-present Lecturer, Department of Art, University of Minnesota, MN
2014-2016 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Art, University of Minnesota, MN
2013-2014 Faculty Associate, The School for Social Transformation, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Faculty Associate, Paradise Valley Community College, Phoenix, AZ
2013 Faculty Associate, Herberger Institute for Design and Arts, Arizona State, University, Tempe, AZ
Lectures and Invited Presentations
2017 Art and the Social Body, Rosalux Gallery, February 25, 2017.
2016 Visiting Artist, Stanford University, May 9, 2016.
Panelist, Curation Now, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, April 14, 2016.
2015 Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Minnesota, April 9 2015.
“Zines and Artist Books,” University of Minnesota, February 4 2015.
Panelist, MFA Teaching Pedagogy, University of Minnesota, March 3 2015.
Panelist, Art Space Panel, University of Minnesota, March 13 2015.
2014 “How to Pack and Ship Artwork,” Katherine Nash Gallery, November 21 2014.
“Visualizing Trans Bodies,” Prescott College, March 27 2014.
“Zine Making for Social Change,” Justice Studies, The School for Social Transformation at ASU, April 22 2014.
"Building Queer Community through Arts and Archives," The Role of Arts in
Social Transformation Panel, The School for Social Transformation at Arizona State University, March 18 2014.
“Queer Up: Socially Engaged Art for Student Activism,” Socially Engaged Practices Art Class, Herberger Institute for Design and Arts at Arizona State University, March 4 2014.
2013 Presentation and Critique, Herberger Institute for Design and Arts at Arizona State University, November 7 2013
Presentation and Critique, Oklahoma State University, October 24 2013.
“Ungilding the Gold Star Gay,” Oklahoma State University, October 24 2013.
2012 “Transgender Art,” Transgender Studies, Rutgers University, November 19 2012.
“Ungilting the Gold Star Gay” with Aren Aizura, Queer Practices, Places and Lives conference, OSU, May 18 2012.
2008 “Scars as Metaphor,” Transsomatechnics conference. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada: May 4 2008.
2007 “Scars as Metaphor,” BioCultures Conference, University of Illinois at Chicago, November 16 2007.
Selected Bibliography
Ungilting the Gold Star Gay, Emmett Ramstad and Aren Aizura, “Samuel Steward and the Pursuit of the Erotic," ed. Debra Moddelmog and Martin Joseph Ponce. Ohio State University Press. 2017
Susannah Magers, “On Negotiation: Belonging and the Politics of Choice,” Exhibition Catalogue, Emmett Ramstad: After You (2016).
Sheila Regan, “A Public Display of Our Private Belongings,” Hyperallergic.com, 29 Mar. 2016
Eliza Steinbock, “Trans-homoerotic Archive,” Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Gender, Accepted for publication.
Maxe Crandall, “Pube File.” Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects: Legends & Mythologies (2015)
Maxe Crandall and Selby Wynn Schwartz, “Symptom,” Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 24.2-3 (2014): 254-258.
Emmett Ramstad, “Hotdogs and Festooned with Sausages, Hung Like a Garland,”Radical Teacher 92.1 (2011): 43-46.
Jeanne Vaccaro, “Felt Matters,” Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 20.3 (2010): 253-266.
Catherine Young, “Gray Anatomy,” Art Voice 5:48 (2006)
Reine Hauser, “Body of Work,” AfterImage 34:5 (2006)
Emmett Ramstad, “Embodiment Series,” New York Arts Magazine, 12.9/10 (2007): 74
Education
2007 MFA in Visual Studies, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
2001 BA in The Integration of Arts in Education, Oberlin College
Solo Exhibitions
2017
Emmett Ramstad, Rosalux Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2016
Touching Each Other, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
After You, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN (catalogue)
2014
Knowing You Unknown, Eye Lounge Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2013
Watching You Watching Me, Eye Lounge Project Room, Phoenix, AZ
Intimately Preserved, John J. Wilcox Jr. Archive Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2007
Becoming, Femina Potens Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005
Drains, Jon Sims Center for Performing Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Group Exhibitions
2017
Making Room, Quarter Gallery, Regis Center for the Arts, Minneapolis, MN
2016
Jerome Fellowship Exhibition, MCAD, Minneapolis, MN
He, She, They, Ze, Arcade Gallery, Chicago, IL
2015
Transgender Hirstory in 99 Objects, ONE Archives, Los Angeles, CA
Culture Wars Then and Now, Patrick’s Cabaret, Minneapolis, MN
2014
Bay Area Now 7, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
thinking, making, living, The Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2013
The Demography of Us, Eye Lounge Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Consumerism, Glendale Gallery, Glendale, AZ
Ephemeral Sprawl, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
Zeitgeist, SOMARTS Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Wayfinder: Forging Identity, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Lost & Found: Transgender Image Making, IHLIA, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Second State, Second Edition, Second State Press Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2012
Doing Your Dirty Work, The Center for Sex and Culture, San Francisco, CA
Collage, The Latvian Society, Philadelphia, PA
Casting, Philadelphia Sculpture Gym, Philadelphia, PA
Pop-Up Museum of Queer History, William Way Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Dead Drops, Little Berlin Gallery and public locations, Philadelphia, PA
2011
New York Queer Experimental Film Festival, Mix Factory, New York, NY
5 Objects and a Story, Million Fishes Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Radiance, Madame Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2010
Beast, Million Fishes Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Private Parts, Solano Community College, Fairfield, CA
2009
Grown & Sexy, Northrup King Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Polemics of Love, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Threaded, MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams, MA
Threads, SOMARTS Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Defying Gravities, Fresh Meat in the Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Queer Craft, Advocate & Gochis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Cynosure, The Spare Room Project, San Francisco, CA
Queerity, Million Fishes Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Makul (Reasonable), Hafriyat Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Riots and Revelations, Fresh Meat in the Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007
MFA Thesis Exhibition, SooVac Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Twin Cities Pride, Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
2006
Deviant Bodies 2.0, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Vice and Virtue, Concourse Gallery, MCAD, Minneapolis, MN
Gender/Identity, ALL Gallery, New Haven, CT
Engendered Species, CSU and The Advocate Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Fresh Meat in the Gallery, ODC Theater Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Pohoshow, Shoebox Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Made at MCAD, Main Gallery, MCAD, Minneapolis, MN
2005
Fresh Meat in the Gallery, ODC Theater Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004
Reversing Vandalism, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA
Strap ‘Em Down: The World of Drag Kings, YBCA, San Francisco, CA
Awards
2016 Next Step Fund Grant, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, St. Paul, MN
2015 Emerging Artist Fellowship, Jerome Foundation, Minneapolis, MN
2014 Professional Development Grant, Arizona Commission for the Arts, Phoenix, AZ
2012 Art for Social Change Grant, Leeway Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
2006 Honorable Mention, Made @ MCAD Exhibition, MCAD, Minneapolis, MN
2005 MFA Opportunity Grant, MCAD, Minneapolis, MN
Residencies
2012 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2010 MANCC, Tallahassee, FL
Les Subsistance, Lyon, France
2009 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
MANCC, Tallahassee, FL
K3, Hamburg, Germany
Costume, Set Design and Performance
2016 I Don’t Normally Do This, The Southern Theater, Minneapolis, MN
2013 Symptom, CounterPulse, San Francisco, CA
2012 Super Nature, Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis; Abrons Art Center, New York; Store Front Theater, Chicago
Pleasure Rebel, Bryant Lake Bowl, Minneapolis, MN
2011 Symptom, PS122, New York (with The BodyCartography Project)
Mammal, Les Subsistances, Lyon, France (with The BodyCartography Project)
Sister Spit, Bryant Lake Bowl, Minneapolis, MN (with Sinan Goknur)
2009 Heaven, Diverse Works, Houston; Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis; PS 122, New York, On the Boards, Seattle
(with Morgan Thorson)
½ Life, The Southern Theater, Minneapolis; PS 122, New York (with The BodyCartography Project)
Curatorial Projects
2013 HOTDOG! Second State Press Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2012 Trans|Post, William Way Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Tuesday Smillie: Free Our Siblings, Free Ourselves, WWCC, Philadelphia, PA
2011 5 Objects and a Story, Million Fishes Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009 Chicken, The Spare Room Project, San Francisco, CA
Size Never Mattered/ Size Always Matters, Million Fishes Gallery, San Francisco, CA (co-curated with Ace Lehner, Crow Cianciola, Torreya Cummings, Micah Bazant, James Giotta and Dallas Kavanagh)
2004 Parts, New College Cultural Center Gallery, San Francisco, CA (co-curated with Shana Agid)
Public Collections
The Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
Minneapolis College of Art and Design Permanent Collection, Minneapolis, MN
Second State Press, Philadelphia, PA
Teaching Experience
2016-present Lecturer, Department of Art, University of Minnesota, MN
2014-2016 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Art, University of Minnesota, MN
2013-2014 Faculty Associate, The School for Social Transformation, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Faculty Associate, Paradise Valley Community College, Phoenix, AZ
2013 Faculty Associate, Herberger Institute for Design and Arts, Arizona State, University, Tempe, AZ
Lectures and Invited Presentations
2017 Art and the Social Body, Rosalux Gallery, February 25, 2017.
2016 Visiting Artist, Stanford University, May 9, 2016.
Panelist, Curation Now, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, April 14, 2016.
2015 Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Minnesota, April 9 2015.
“Zines and Artist Books,” University of Minnesota, February 4 2015.
Panelist, MFA Teaching Pedagogy, University of Minnesota, March 3 2015.
Panelist, Art Space Panel, University of Minnesota, March 13 2015.
2014 “How to Pack and Ship Artwork,” Katherine Nash Gallery, November 21 2014.
“Visualizing Trans Bodies,” Prescott College, March 27 2014.
“Zine Making for Social Change,” Justice Studies, The School for Social Transformation at ASU, April 22 2014.
"Building Queer Community through Arts and Archives," The Role of Arts in
Social Transformation Panel, The School for Social Transformation at Arizona State University, March 18 2014.
“Queer Up: Socially Engaged Art for Student Activism,” Socially Engaged Practices Art Class, Herberger Institute for Design and Arts at Arizona State University, March 4 2014.
2013 Presentation and Critique, Herberger Institute for Design and Arts at Arizona State University, November 7 2013
Presentation and Critique, Oklahoma State University, October 24 2013.
“Ungilding the Gold Star Gay,” Oklahoma State University, October 24 2013.
2012 “Transgender Art,” Transgender Studies, Rutgers University, November 19 2012.
“Ungilting the Gold Star Gay” with Aren Aizura, Queer Practices, Places and Lives conference, OSU, May 18 2012.
2008 “Scars as Metaphor,” Transsomatechnics conference. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada: May 4 2008.
2007 “Scars as Metaphor,” BioCultures Conference, University of Illinois at Chicago, November 16 2007.
Selected Bibliography
Ungilting the Gold Star Gay, Emmett Ramstad and Aren Aizura, “Samuel Steward and the Pursuit of the Erotic," ed. Debra Moddelmog and Martin Joseph Ponce. Ohio State University Press. 2017
Susannah Magers, “On Negotiation: Belonging and the Politics of Choice,” Exhibition Catalogue, Emmett Ramstad: After You (2016).
Sheila Regan, “A Public Display of Our Private Belongings,” Hyperallergic.com, 29 Mar. 2016
Eliza Steinbock, “Trans-homoerotic Archive,” Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Gender, Accepted for publication.
Maxe Crandall, “Pube File.” Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects: Legends & Mythologies (2015)
Maxe Crandall and Selby Wynn Schwartz, “Symptom,” Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 24.2-3 (2014): 254-258.
Emmett Ramstad, “Hotdogs and Festooned with Sausages, Hung Like a Garland,”Radical Teacher 92.1 (2011): 43-46.
Jeanne Vaccaro, “Felt Matters,” Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 20.3 (2010): 253-266.
Catherine Young, “Gray Anatomy,” Art Voice 5:48 (2006)
Reine Hauser, “Body of Work,” AfterImage 34:5 (2006)
Emmett Ramstad, “Embodiment Series,” New York Arts Magazine, 12.9/10 (2007): 74
