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Education
BFA (pending), School of the Art Institute of Chicago, May 2027
Group Exhibitions
from porch to patio, Curated by Jaeden Hannus, Bodock, Chicago, IL, 2025
Performing Grapefruit, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, 2025
Staple and Stitch, SAIC Photo, Chicago, IL, 2025
Chicago Art Book Fair, SAIC Photo, Chicago, IL, 2025
Extension: Body, House. Schoolhouse, Chicago, IL, 2025
The 226th Anna Atkins Birthday. Griffin Museum of Photography, online exhibition, 2025
Intervening in the Archive. SAIC, online exhibition, 2024
Awards/Grants/Fellowships
Longlist, 2025 Booooooom Awards, 2026 (https://www.booooooom.com/2025-photo-award-winners/#longlist)
Residency and Scholarship, Ox-Bow, Saugatuck, Michigan, 2025
Merit Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Emily Mae is a lens-based artist working between Los Angeles and Chicago, exploring ideas of the self, presence, and ambiguity through staged and observational imagery. Though often employing photography to express these themes, means of sculpture, performance, and text accompany her visual exploration.