Emilie Stark-Menneg
Emilie Stark-Menneg is an interdisciplinary artist, working in painting, video, and sculpture. In 2019, she received her MFA in painting from RISD. In 2007, she received a BFA in combined media from Cornell University. Last November, Emilie collaborated with the poet Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon on a performance for the Cornell Council for the Arts Biennial at Cornell University. Recently, Emilie had a painting and video installation in collaboration with Van Clief-Stefanon included in the DeCordova Museum’s 2019 Biennial.
Emilie has upcoming solo shows at Monya Rowe Gallery, NYC, May 2020, and at Ishibashi Gallery at Middlesex School, Concord, MA, September 2020. She’s had solo shows at Field Projects Gallery, NYC, Allouche Gallery, NYC, the Nesto Gallery of Milton Academy, Milton, MA, Elizabeth Moss Gallery, Falmouth, ME, Makebish Gallery, NYC, Kijidome, Boston, MA, Leonard R. Craig Gallery, Unity College, Unity, ME, and the Coleman Burke Gallery, Brunswick, ME. My installation, “When We Land” was included in the 2015 Portland Museum of Art Biennial, “You Can’t Get there from Here”. She is included in the 2016, issue 122 of New American Paintings from the Open Studios Press.
EDUCATION
MFA RISD 2019
BFA Cornell University 2007
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 New Work Monya Rowe Gallery, NY, NY (forthcoming)
2020 New Work Ishibashi gallery, Middlesex School, Concord, MA (forthcoming)
2018 Suspects Field Projects, NY, NY
2018 Backwards Dive Boarder Patrol, Portland, ME
2018 The Breakers Allouche Gallery, NY, NY
2017 Waterworks Nesto Gallery at Milton Academy, Milton, MA
2017 American Popsicle Elizabeth Moss Gallery, Falmouth, ME
2017 Dream Team Kijidome Gallery, Boston, MA
2016 Big Kitty Picture Show! Makebish Gallery, NY, NY
2015 Speaking in Stars Elizabeth Moss Gallery, Falmouth, ME
2015 Good Luck, All-In Leonard R. Craig Gallery, Unity College, ME
2014 Capture the Flag Coleman Burke Gallery, Brunswick, ME
2013 Shake that Bird Coleman Burke Gallery, Brunswick, ME
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Shift Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, ME
2019 Pool Party C24 Gallery, NY, NY
2019 Biennial DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
2019 The Twenty By Sixteen Biennial Morgan Lehman Gallery, NY, NY
2018 Expectations Field Projects Pop-Up NY, NY
2018 Untitled Art Fair-San Fransisco
2018 Gallery Booth, San Fransisco, CA
2017 Still Life Allouche Gallery, NY, NY
2017 Nostalgia Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, ME
2017 The Long Run Space Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2017 Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
2017 Selects Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Body/Head Field Projects Pop-Up NY, NY
2017 Periscope Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, ME
2017 Cabinet David B. Smith Project Space, Denver, CO
2016 One Clover and a Bee. And Revery Happylucky no.1 Brooklyn, NY
2016 John Riegert Project Space Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2016 RBTL Katzen Art Center, American University, DC
2015 You Can't Get There From Here Portland Museum of Art Biennial, Portland, ME
2015 Float Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
2015 15 Performances in an Hour Neu Kirche Art Center, Pittsburgh, PA
INTERDISCIPLINARY WORK
2018 Measured Film Screening with live performance, in the Cornell Council for the Arts Biennial, in collaboration with poet Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
2010 Bikini Flag Film Screening with live performance, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, in collaboration with poet Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
2010 BOP: the North Star Multi-media performance, Kitchen Theater, Ithaca, NY, incorporated poems by Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
2007 Barn Stormin' Brothers Bicycled across the USA performing a dance- musical in Laundromats, in collaboration with Kazoo
ACTING
2013 The Heretic (Phoebe) Burning Coal Theatre, NC
2010 Limbo (one-woman show-Claire) Burning Coal Theatre, NC
2010 A Winter's Tale (Autolycus) Peace University, Raleigh, NC
2009 Much Ado About Nothing (Hero) Burning Coal Theatre, NC
2008 Hysteria (Jessica) Burning Coal Theater, NC Proof (Catherine) Temple Theater, NC
2007 Romeo and Juliet (Juliet) The Drilling Co., NY,NY
AWARDS/GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS
2017-19 Roger and Gayle Mandle Scholarship RISD
2015 Regina and Marlin Miller MFA Fellowship Carnegie Mellon University
2009 New York State Community Arts Partnership Grant
2009 Vermont Studio Center Fellowship
2008 Corning Museum of Glass Studio Fellowship
2007 Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
2007 Cornell Council for the Arts Individual Project Grant
2007 Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Medal of Art Cornell University
PRESS/PUBLICATIONS
August 2019 Tomorrow’s Art Stars: 4 Must-See MFA Shows in New York Galerie Magazine, Paul Laster
November 2018 Emilie Stark-Menneg: Artist Spotlight One River, Catherine Haggarty
February 2017 A show to see before the cotton candy dissolves, Boston Globe, Cate McQuaid
July 2017 Two careers on the rise, Portland Press Herald, Bob Keyes
August 2017 Emilie Stark-Menneg and the Sweet Cool of Material Nostalgia, The Chart, Julien Langevin
February 2016 New American Paintings, No. 122, The Open Studios Press
September 2015 Edgy Emilie Stark-Menneg Engages at Moss, Portland Press Herald, Daniel Kany
