Emily Zuch
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art
Music and Art
EMAIL: ezuch@bmcc.cuny.edu
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Emily Zuch (@emilyzuch) is a painter and adjunct professor living in Brooklyn, NY. She started teaching at BMCC in 2019, and also teaches at Pratt Institute and Wagner College. She received a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2008 and an MFA from New York Studio School in 2011. Emily has received grants such as the Fulbright Research and Study award and the Hohenberg Award, and attended residencies including Yaddo, Jentel, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center.
“My paintings explore the interchangeability of the real and unreal, and ways to straddle the very fine line between the two. I achieve this effect by setting up my studio with mirrors, reflections in windows, cards and reproductions of other paintings, then paint the whole scene directly from life. The paintings are filled with everyday objects from my studio, but by placing them in a certain way they become unfamiliar. By positioning a mirror or a window at a certain point in the composition a completely ordinary room comes apart to show a strange and fragmented world.”
Expertise
Degrees
MFA, New York Studio School (2011)
BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art (2008)
Courses Taught
Research and Projects
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Kunst Konzil #31, Budde-Haus, Leipzig, Germany
2017 Mirror Paintings, Die BOX, Leipzig, Germany
2017 Fragmentkammer, Lindfels Westflügel, Leipzig, Germany
2015 Window Paintings, Serendipity Gallery, Litchfield, CT
2015 Zuch: Theater Pieces, Lindfels Westflügel, Leipzig, Germany
2013 The Land of Fake Nature, Liman Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
2012 Emily Zuch: New Work, Hohenberg Award Exhibition, New York Studio School, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions
2020 Group Dynamic: BMCC Art Faculty Show, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, New York, NY
2019 Connections: New York Studio School Europe, Gerald Moore Gallery, London, UK
2019 New York Studio School Alumni Invitational, New York Studio School, New York, NY
2019 Drawings from Westflügel, Westflügel Wochenende, T-Werk, Potsdam, Germany
2019 Behind Between Below, Die BOX, Leipzig, Germany
2018 X Marks the Spot: Women of the New York Studio School, New York Studio School, New York, NY
2017 Four Stories, Serendipity Gallery, Litchfield, CT
2016 Know the Ways, KN- Raum für Kunst in Kontext, Berlin, Germany
2015 58th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Juror: Hrag Vartanian, VACI Gallery, Chautauqua, NY
2014 Image Makers, Novella Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Young Talent Competition, Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT
2012 Calicornucopia, Calico Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Postcards, Fowler Art Collective, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Space Half Empty, Fowler Art Collective, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Nature, Greenpoint Reform Church, Brooklyn, NY
2011 MFA Thesis Exhibition, New York Studio School, New York, NY
Publications
Honors, Awards and Affiliations
Awards
2014 Fulbright Research and Study Grant in Painting and Printmaking, Germany
2011 Hohenberg Travel Award
2011 Vermont Studio Center Scholarship
2010 New York Studio School Scholarship to Chautaqua School of Art
Artist Residencies
2018 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2018 Jentel Artist Residency, Banner, WY
2015 Raumstation, Stuttgart, Germany
2014 Bosch Simmons Residency, Chelva, Spain
2011 Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE
2011 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2011 Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild Artist in Residence Program, Woodstock, NY
2010 Chautaqua Institution School of Art, Chautauqua, NY
Additional Information
website: https://www.emilyzuch.com
