EMMETT RAMSTAD
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Education
2007    MFA, Visual Studies, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
2001    BA, The Integration of Arts in Education, Oberlin College
 
Awards
2019    Artist Initiative Grantee, Minnesota State Arts Board, St. Paul, MN
             Franconia Sculpture Park Residency, Jerome Fellowship, Shafer, MN
2018    Forecast Public Art Research and Development Grant, Minneapolis, MN
            Tofte Lake Residency, Jerome Fellowship, Ely, MN
2016    Jerome Book Arts Mentorship, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN
            Next Step Fund Awardee, 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, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis, MN
 
Solo Exhibitions
2018    Laying in Wait, Hair and Nails Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (catalogue)
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
 
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020    Future Future, Hair and Nails Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
             Untitled 16, Soo Visual Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (juried by Natalie Bell)
             After Hours, Quarter Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2019    HAIRandNAILS, 9 Herkimer Place, Brooklyn, NY
             Queer Forms, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (catalogue)
             Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN
2018    Untitled 14, Rosalux Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (juried by Nicole Soukup)
             Co-Lab, The Show Gallery Lowertown, St Paul, MN
             Living Together, Waiting Room, Edina, MN
            Yeah Maybe 25, Yeah Maybe Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2017    Jerome Foundation Book Arts Mentorship Series, MCBA, Minneapolis, MN
            Co-Lab, The Show Gallery Lowertown, St Paul, MN
            Borders, Public Functionary, Minneapolis, MN
            Parts of a Whole, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN
            Making Room, Quarter Gallery, Regis Center for the Arts, Minneapolis, MN
2016    Jerome Fellowship Exhibition, MCAD, Minneapolis, MN (catalogue)
             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 Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2013    Lost & Found: Transgender Image Making, IHLIA, Amsterdam, Netherlands
            Ephemeral Sprawl, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
            Zeitgeist, SOMARTS Gallery, San Francisco, CA
            The Demography of Us, Eye Lounge Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
            Consumerism, Glendale Gallery, Glendale, AZ
            Wayfinder: Forging Identity, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
            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
2011    New York Queer Experimental Film Festival, Mix Factory, New York, NY
             5 Objects and a Story, Million Fishes Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010    Beast, Million Fishes Gallery, San Francisco, CA
             Private Parts, Solano Community College, Fairfield, CA
2009   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    Makul (Reasonable), Hafriyat Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
            Cynosure, The Spare Room Project, San Francisco, CA
2007    MFA Thesis Exhibition, SooVac Gallery, 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
 
Collaborative Residencies
2012    Walker Art Center, BodyCartography Project, Minneapolis, MN
2010    MANCC, BodyCartography Project, Tallahassee, FL
            Les Subsistance, BodyCartography Project, Lyon, France
2009    Walker Art Center, Morgan Thorson Dance, Minneapolis, MN
            MANCC, Morgan Thorson Dance, Tallahassee, FL
            K3, BodyCartography Project, Hamburg, Germany
 
Costume, Set Design and Performance
2019    Lost Things, WE Series, Chicago, Illinois
2018    Relay Relay, Red Eye Theater, Minneapolis, MN
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 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 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 and Commissions
Minnesota Museum of American Art, Saint Paul, MN
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, ASU, Tempe, AZ

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