Emily Margarit Mason

Biography
Emily Margarit Mason (b.1992) creates sculptural sets using deconstructed photographic prints and found materials. Mason’s practice is quite physical, from collecting photographs and objects to their reconstruction in the studio. This play with materiality translates to a dimensional nature in her 2d photographs. Mason’s final photograph becomes a sort of dreamlike vision, not entirely representative of reality but not completely separate from it either. 

Emily Margarit Mason is one of Southwest Contemporary’s 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now. She has exhibited her work nationally and has been published on numerous platforms, including Der Grief, Vast Art Magazine, PHROOM, Don’t Smile, and more. Mason holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Maryland Institute College of Art. She currently lives and works in Santa Fe, NM.

My work physically reimagines the perceived world from something seen to something felt, exploring how the multifaceted nature of experience might emotionally manifest.  – Emily Margarit Mason

Education
2014 Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, MD, Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree

Solo Exhibitions
2019
Shadows Through a Petal, Peralta, Santa Fe, NM

2018
Shadows Through a Petal, No Land Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2016
Touching Corners, Chamber Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

2015
LIMBO, Lil’ Gallery, Baltimore, MD

2014
Eye-Hand/Hand-Eye, Pinkard Gallery, Baltimore, MD

Group Exhibitions
2022
Another World, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
What Photography Is,The Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Roanoke, VA

2021
Imagining The Unreal, GCPL, Deluth, GA

2020
Collaged Horizons, Rosenberg Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Sun Pours Daylong, The Sunny Project, Miami, FL
Spring Quarter, Streit House Space, Poughkeepsie, NY
Open Studio, ENDLESS PLAIN, Santa Fe, NM

2019
Context, Filter Photo, Chicago, IL

2018
MicroCosm, Form and Concept, Santa Fe, NM
Hand/Eye, Form and Concept, Santa Fe, NM
The Biological Auteur, Etiquette, Santa Fe, NM
Mirror Box, Form and Concept, Santa Fe, NM
How To Know Somebody, PLUG Projects, Kansas City, MO

2017
Abstract Image, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC

2016
Treading Water, TGIF Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2014
Blushing, Ballroom Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Out Of Order, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
LIFE is a SNAPCHAT, Jade House, Lansing, MI

2013
Juried Undergraduate Exhibition, Decker Gallery, Baltimore, MD
GoodLight, Current Space Gallery, Baltimore, MD

Press
2021
Interview: Emily Margarit Mason’s Glass and Shadows, VAST Art Magazine, Print & Online, Issue n°03, September 23
Pop-Up Magazine x California Sunday, Field Guide
Maggie Grimason, Emily Margarit Mason: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now, Southwest Contemporary, May 25
The Constructed Image, F-STOP
Did That Just Happen?, Don’t Smile, January
Fifth Wheel Press, Hazey, January
Issue #31, The Hand Magazine, January 15

2020
Conversation with Ginevra Shay, A New Nothing, October
Mixed Media: A Balancing Act, Art Connect
Made Alone Together, Good Words Press, June
Edition 1, Isolate Zine, Print, May
Stefania Zanetti, Research: There are six million ways to cope with self-isolation, C41 Magazine
LIMINAL, Cumulus Photo, April
Plant Petter, Curated with Madeline Cass
Artist Feature, SPE Women’s Caucus

2019
John Fleetwood, Guest Room, Der Greif, June 30
Artist Feature, PHROOM Magazine

2018
Chelsea Weathers, Review: Emily Margarit Mason: Shadows through a Petal, The Magazine (Southwest Contemporary), November 28
Emily Van Cleve, Article, Santa Fe Arts Journal

2017
Color, F-STOP Magazine, Issue #83 June/July
A Paragraph & the Joint Photographic Experts Group, Oranbeg Press, September

2015
Guest Feature by Michael Bussell, Der Greif, January 28
Kyle Seis, Interview, Wave Pool

2014
Morgan Cadigan, Interview, The Paper Mixtape
New Glass, Curated by Roxana Azar and Ginevra Shay, Oranbeg Press

Press Release
2022 Another World at Richard Levy Gallery
2021 a few of our favorite things at Richard Levy Gallery