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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

Publications

Thaw, Emily Mae, 2025

Where The Two Deserts Meet. Emily Mae & Asher Hansow, 2025

Awards/Grants/Fellowships

Residency, 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.