EDUCATION
2020 MFA Studio Art, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
2013 BA Art Education, Minor in Painting, The University of Akron, Akron, OH
SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
*denotes solo exhibition
2026 *The Long Way Through, Emerge Gallery, Coeur D’Alene, ID
2025 *Constants, Terrain Gallery, Spokane, WA
2024 *All-Encompassing, Blue Galleries at Boise State University, Boise, ID
2023 Twist, Hanson Howard Gallery, Ashland, OR
Passages, Pendleton Center for the Arts, Pendleton, OR
*Open Fields, Esvelt Gallery, Columbia Basin College, Pasco, WA
2022 *Surfacing, EWU Gallery, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA
Vis-à-vis, Nightingale Gallery, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR
2021 *What Lies Beyond Sight, Fisher Wall Gallery, Marathon Center for the Performing Arts, Findlay, OH
*Being, Sensing, Dwelling, Foundry Vineyards Gallery, Walla Walla, WA
2018 *Beyond the Threshold, KAC, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
2015 *Realms, Studio 2091, Cuyahoga Falls, OH
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Sum of its Parts, AMcE Gallery, Seattle WA (3-person exhibition)
Made in Paint 13, Sam & Adele Golden Gallery, Golden Artist Colors, New Berlin, NY
Scale, The Confluence: Art in Twisp, Twisp WA
2026 Miami University Young Painters Competition, Miami University, Oxford, OH
2024 Polarity, Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Seattle WA (3-person exhibition)
Rite of Spring, Chatwin Arts, Seattle, WA
Anchored in Repetition and Consensus, Wolpert Gallery, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN (3-person exhibition curated by Heather Wetzel)
2023 Remix, Gallery One, Ellensburg, WA
2022 Over the Line: A Regional Faculty Art Exhibition, Lewis-Clark State College, Lewiston, ID
Time | creature | portal | self |, Sheehan Gallery and Maxey Museum, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
Break of Day, Edge of Night, The Painting Center, New York, NY (curated by Steven Cabral, Lisa Petker Mintz and Christopher Schade)
Paper Cuts II, Collapse Gallery, Wenatchee, WA
On the Verge of Recognition, Well Well Projects, Portland, OR (curated by Kelda Van Patten and Jeremy Le Grand)
Layer by Layer, Chase Gallery, Spokane, WA
Presencing, Saranac Art Projects, Spokane, WA
2021 Not Just Another Anthropocenic Love Story, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Dwelling on Dwellings, Olson-Larsen Galleries, Des Moines, IA
Reckless Abandon, Make.Shift Gallery, Bellingham, WA
Open Regional Exhibition, Pendleton Center for the Arts, Pendleton, OR
New Visions, Vantage Art Projects, (virtual group exhibition curated by Katie Neece)
One in a Year, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2020 Hedges and Houses and Mothers and Children, I Like Your Work Podcast in conjunction with Dazed and Confucius, virtual exhibition
Assemblage: the MFA Show, The Olympia Project, virtual exhibition
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI
2019 Emerging, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL (curator: Laura Cloud)
Flummoxed?, Kresge Art Center, Michigan State University
Collage, Site: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY (curator: Rachel Wolff)
Michigan Collegiate Art Exhibition, Lansing Art Gallery, Lansing, MI (Jurors: Steven Hughes, Jjenna Hupp Andrews, and Quinn Jiles)
2018 Catalyst Small Works 2018, Catalyst Gallery, Beacon, NY (Juror: Erica Hauser)
Decennalia: 10 years of Myers in Venice, Myers School of Art, Akron, OH
MEGA 2018, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI (Jurors: Matthew Eaton and Shelley Stevens)
Home: Absence or Essence, Specto Art Space, Bridgewater VA
20th Annual Works on Paper, Long Beach Island Foundation, Long Beach Island, NJ (Juror: Kim Conaty, curator of Drawings & Prints at The Whitney Museum)
Moving, Cedar Street Art Collective, Lansing, MI
2017 Flux, Kresge Art Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
53rd Annual MEA/MAEA Art Acquisitions Exhibition, East Lansing, MI
2016 Art at the Airport, Akron-Canton Airport, North Canton, OH
2015 Folk Art: Works by Recent Alumni, Myers School of Art, Akron, OH
2014 Abstract Anatomies, The Lockview, Akron, OH (Juror: Alexandra Nicholis Coon)
2013 Divergent Dimensions, Myers School of Art, Akron, OH Embrace Your Essence Winter Art Exhibition, Portage Lakes, OH
2012 Spot Treatment, The Spot, Akron, OH
``GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
2025 Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship Nominee
2022 Grants for Artist Progress (GAP), Artist Trust
McMillen Fellowship, Robert B. McMillen Foundation
Dan Dunn Memorial Grant, ArtWalla
2019 Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Michigan State University
2018 Summer Support Fellowship, Michigan State University
Professional Development/Travel Fellowship Funding, Michigan State University
Summer Support Fellowship, Michigan State University
2017 Professional Development/Travel Fellowship Funding, Michigan State University
2013 Venice Biennale International Travel and Art Scholarship, Myers School of Art
2009-13 Folk Endowment Scholarship, Myers School of Art
RESIDENCIES
2025 The Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Sam and Adele Golden Foundation Residency, New Berlin, NY
2024 Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2023-pres Assistant Professor of Art, Whitman College, WA
2020-2023 Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, Whitman College, WA
2017-2020 Instructor of Record, Michigan State University, MI
2016-2017 Art Teacher, Eaton Rapids Public Schools, Eaton Rapids, MI
2014-2016 Art Teacher, Field Local School District, Brimfield, OH
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2026 Guest Speaker, Northwest Collage Society, Redmond, WA
Juror, The Studios at MASS MoCA Early Application Submissions
2025 Juror, 2025 Juried Show, Foundry Vineyards, Walla Walla, WA
2024 Panelist, Kolaj Fest 2024, Kolaj Institute, New Orleans, LA
Award Panelist, Arts Innovator Award, Artist Trust
Juror, Annual Student Juried Exhibition, Blue Galleries at Boise State, Boise ID
2022 Participant, Collage Artist Lab, Kolaj Institute, New Orleans, LA
Guest Lecturer, MFA Pedagogy Seminar, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Visiting Artist, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR
2021 Juror, 23rd Annual Art at the Crossroads Regional Art Exhibition, Crossroads Carnegie Art Center, Baker City, OR
2019 Gallery Assistant, Union Gallery, Michigan State University
Co-Curator, Inner Workings, curated group exhibition, Kresge Art Center, MSU
Co-Curator, Home?, curated group exhibition, MSU Broad Art Lab, East Lansing, MI
PUBLICATIONS & PRESS
2022 I Like Your Work Podcast, Studio Visit Artist, March 2022
Eastern Oregon University, “Whitman Artists Explore the Meanings and Traditions of Painting”, January 2022
2021 The Spokesman-Review “Visual artist Emily Somoskey opens first local exhibit at Marmot Art Space”, October 2021
Inlander, “Artist Emily Somoskey discusses change, growth and the spaces we inhabit before her new Marmot Art Space opening”, September 2021
Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, “Life reframed: Emily Somoskey gallery debuts at Walla Walla's Foundry Vineyards”, May 2021
Something Rather than Nothing, episode #97 ‘Emily Somoskey’ podcast hosted by Ken Volante
The Oddville Press, Feature artist, Spring 2021
2020 Friend of the Artist, Volume #12, November 2020
Side x Side Contemporary, interview, June 2020
ctrl+v journal, Spring 2020 Issue #7, May 2020
Studio Break, podcast hosted by David Linneweh, March 2020
COLLECTIONS
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Holland Partner Group, Vancouver, WA