About Me

Emily Geen’s work navigates our relationships to images: as portals, as surfaces, as archives, and as objects. Her hybrid artistic processes have included personal image collections, scanning, found objects, casting, image transfers, video, reflections, cross stitch, stained glass, bookmaking, painting, text and sound. Embodied inquiries of nostalgia, temporality, and architecture are prevalent in her work.

Emily Geen lives and works on the traditional territory of the Lekwungen (Songhees & Esquimalt) and WSANEC Peoples (Victoria, BC). She is of British, French, and Irish ancestry, and grew up on an orchard on traditional Sylix Okanagan territory in Lake Country, BC.

Emily completed her BFA at the University of British Columbia Okanagan (2012), followed by her MFA at the University of Victoria (2015). She has had recent solo projects/exhibitions at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art (Kelowna), the Victoria Arts Council Satellite Window Gallery at Studio 531, and Empty Gallery (Victoria). Her work has been included in group shows at the Lake Country Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Support (London, ON), Gallery 44 (Toronto), and Gallery 295 (Vancouver). She has participated in residencies at the Banff Centre (2016) and at MOMENTUM Worldwide in Berlin (2017).

Emily has taught studio art at the University of Victoria since 2015.