Emilie Crewe (she/her | b. 1987, Québec City, Canada; raised in Pittsburgh, PA, USA) is an interdisciplinary artist based on unceded land known colonially as Vancouver, Canada. Her practice often takes the form of multi-channel and single-channel video, installation, and new media. Emilie holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University. Her work has been exhibited and screened internationally in galleries, museums, artist-run centers, experimental film/video festivals, and as public art.

Select exhibition history includes the AC Institute in New York, NY, the Art Souterrain Festival in Montréal, QC, Roman Susan Art Foundation in Chicago, IL, Broadcast Lab at Arts Commons in Calgary, AB, and the Governor's Island Art Fair in New York, NY. Her work has been featured in screening events such as the Chicago Underground Film Festival, The Labor Party at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, PA, Streams & Channels at the Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art in Peekskill, NY, OK.Video FLESH at the National Gallery of Indonesia, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival in Hawick, UK, Another Experiment by Women at New Filmmakers in New York, NY, and Exploding Cinema curated by IKLECTIK arts lab in London, UK.

Emilie’s public artworks encompass both temporary and permanent installations, as well as digital displays worldwide, including the ZAZ10TS LED Billboard in Times Square, New York, NY. In 2013/14, she received a City of Vancouver Public Art Commission as part of the Reconciliation Platforms series, which won an Americans for the Arts Public Network (PAN) Award. Her five-channel video, The Art of Fugue, was long-listed for the 2020 Aesthetica Art Prize and was featured in the anthology book, FUTURE NOW, which highlights one hundred international contemporary artists. Her projects have appeared in various print and digital publications, including Femme Art Review, Time Out Chicago, SFMoMA’s blog, RogerEbert.com, and Rhizome.org. Emilie’s work is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the British Columbia Arts Council.





       

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