About The Artist

Emilee Lord is a visual and performing artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her multidisciplinary work spans durational performances, installations, works on paper, and dance, exploring themes of accumulation, forgiveness, memory, and drawing as a performative act. A graduate of Bennington College (BA) and Cranbrook Academy of Art (MFA), Emilee integrates storytelling, drawing, and graphic scores into her creative process.

She’s been an Artist in Residence at VSC, SFAI, Jentel, and SIM. She's shared her expertise as a visiting artist/professor at institutions such as Pratt Institute of Art, Caldwell University, College of Dupage, and Bard High School Early College. National and international exhibitions include Santa Fe, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Reykjavik, Toronto, and Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia as artistic director for THE DECK.

She has premiered a series of solo dance theater works in New York at Center for Performance Research, the 14stY, Judson Church, The Tank, and Project Greenspace.

Publications of her essays, stories, and performance art pieces include thINKingDANCE.net, Passing Notes, Hot House exhibition catalogs, and Emergency Index Vol. 10 from Ugly Duckling Press. Emilee serves as co-host of the long-standing Brooklyn storytelling series How To Build A Fire at Open Source Gallery.