Kristen Joy Emack
2022 Guggenheim Fellow


SOLO


2024 Pictura Gallery -Bloomington, Indiana

2024 Boston Athenaeum -Lecture and exhibition, Boston, MA

2024 Gallery Kayafas -Boston, MA

2023 Cambridge Public Library -Lecture and exhibition, Cambridge, MA

2023 Blue Sky Gallery - Portland, OR

2022 Karen and Ted Koskores Gallery- Braintree, MA

2021 Gallery Kayafas - Boston, MA

2021 KUBE Gallery - UK

2021 Bridge Gallery - Cambridge, MA


FESTIVALS


2023 Belfast Photo Festival - Belfast ireland

2022 Uppsala Fotofest - Sweden

2021 Helsinki Photo Festival -  Finland

2019 Photoville - USA

2017 The Fence - USA


GROUP


2025 Brandt Gallery, MASS ART Boston

2022 Maryland Academy of Art Museum, Maryland 

2022 Ones To Watch, ACP PhotoFest, Atlanta, Georgia

2022  Family Documentary Awards

2021 Photographic Resource Center EXPOSURE 2021 - Cambridge, MA

2021 UK National Holocaust Center and Museum, UK

2021 South Orange Performing Arts Center -  South Orange, NJ

2020 CPW Photography Now - Woodstock,NY

2020 Social Documentary Network 1st place ZEKE Award

2020 LENSCULTURE 2nd place Portrait Award

2020 The Curated Fridge, juror Alexa Becker

2020 Joyce Elaine Grant Exhibition - Texas

 2019 Critical Mass Top 50, Photolucidia

2020 Danforth Museum of Art - Framingham, MA

2019 Black Box Gallery - Portland,Oregon

2019 PDN Emerging 30 Nominee

2019 Humble Arts Foundation

2019 Cambridge Art Association - MA

2019 Cambridge Art Association - MA

2019 Griffin Museum of Photography, Juried Members Show - MA

2019  Pro Photo Lab: The Immigrant Story - Portland, Oregon

2019, HumbleArts

2019 Photographic Resource Center, EXPOSURE 2019

2019 The Sun Magazine, April 2019, issue 520

2019 Cambridge Art AssociationNational Prize Show 2nd Place Winner - Massachusetts

2018 Photo-Emphasis, Familiar/Familial Exhibition

2018 The Curated Fridge, Under The Sun, curated by Ann Jastrab

2018 Blue Sky Gallery - Portland, OR

2018 SHOTS Magazine NO. 141 

2018 Don't Smile Home Exhibition

2017 Strange Fire Collective:online

2017 The Curated Fridge, curated by Arlette Kayafas

2017 The Griffin Museum of Photography 23rd Juried Exhibition - MA

2016  Rangefinder Magazine, January 2016

2016  Kathryn Schultz Gallery - Cambridge, MA.

2015  PDN Magazine/Photo District News - September 2015

2014  SCOUT Magazine - Cambridge, MA.

2003  Smithsonian Magazine 


GRANTS/RESIDENCIES 


2022 Guggenheim Fellow

2021 Saint Botolph Fellow

2021 MacDowell Residency Fellow

2019 Mass Cultural Council Fellow

2019 Photolucidia Michael Reichmann Project Grant

2004  Maine Media Workshops, Grant for Women in Photography


ARTIST TALKS


2024 Emerson College, Boston, MA

2024 Leica Gallery, Boston, MA

2022 Cambridge Rindge & Latin School, Cambridge, MA

2022 Boston University, Boston, MA

2022 Guest Writer in Benelli Visiting Writer Series, Thayer Academy, Braintree, MA

2021 KUBE Gallery, UK

2020 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2020 Putney School, Putney, VT

2020 PHOTOVILLE, Brooklyn, NY

2020 University of Cincinnati, OH

2020 Hofstra University, Long Island, NY

2020 Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA

2019 Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA

2019 Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA


INTERVIEW/WRITING


2024 Boston Globe, Book of Saints

 2024 The Horn Book, Race In Fairy Tales

2022 Black+White Photo Magazine

2021 Clan Photo Magazine, Yara Maya

2020 VOGUE ITALIA Interview, Rica Cerbarano, Italy 

2020 LENSCRATCH Interview

2020 The Candid Frame Podcast interview, with Ibarionex Perello

2019 ARTSAKE, Real Stories/Real People in Your Art

2019 SHADE Podcast,  by London based interviewer, Lou Mensa

2018 Boston Voyager Magazine, Meet Kristen Emack















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