EMILY SUDD
CV
b. 1977, Santa Monica, CA
Lives and Works in Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION:
University of California, Los Angeles, MFA, Studio Art, 2014
California State University, Northridge, MA, Studio Art, 2011
University of California, San Diego, BA, Studio Art with Minor in Art History, 2001
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2023:
Emily Sudd: We Bend, But We Do Not Break, Carondelet House, August 23 - November 6, 2023
2018:
Emily Sudd: Sitting in the Dark, James Harris Gallery, October 20 – November 30, 2018
2015:
Emily Sudd: Cabinet Pieces, LAM Gallery, November 14, 2015 – January 9, 2016
Emily Sudd: Decorative Objects, The Weingart Galleries, Occidental College, February 23 – April 11, 2015
SELECTED TWO-PERSON EXHIBITION:
2026:
Shared Ground: Works by Elizabeth Preger and Emily Sudd, Rich Sim Gallery at Antelope Valley College, September 29 - October 29, 2026
SELECTED THREE-PERSON EXHIBITION:
2020:
Seeds-Soil: Ashley Hagen, Emily Sudd, Elizabeth Tinglof, Seaver Gallery at The Marlborough School, January 11 – February 7, 2020
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2026:
LMBA Uncorked, Long Beach Museum of Art, June 13, 2026
2025:
We Must Risk Delight, Boone Family Art Gallery, Pasadena City College, August 28 – September 26, 2025
Summer Salon, Art Share L.A., June 7 – July 12, 2025
2024:
Plateaus: Art that Resonates, Art Share L.A., September 7 - November 16, 2024
NOMAD III, Del Amo Crossing, August 24 - 25, 2023
FOR THE LOVE OF CLAY, Galerie Lulla, June 2 - 23, 2024
Bloom, Shoebox Projects, February 10 - 25, 2024
2023:
Reveal: Recent Acquisition 2020-2023, American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA), October 28, 2023–July 21, 2024
The F****** Word, Pasadena City College Boone Family Gallery, August 28 - September 22, 2023
Off the Wall Auction, Armory Center for the Arts, April 8, 2023
2022:
Realization, CSUN West Gallery, August 28 - September 15, 2022
Matter/Space, Boone Family Art Gallery, Pasadena City College Boone Family Gallery, August 29 - October 15, 2022
Still, Launch Gallery, April 2 - 30, 2022
Pasadena Art Alliance Spring Auction, Pasadena Masonic Temple, May 7, 2022
2021:
Barnsdall Olive Wood Exhibition, Luis De Jesus, November 13 - December 4, 2021
2020:
Sample Platter - Contemporary Ceramic, Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University, February 3 - March 15, 2020
What She Said organized by the Association of Hysteric Curators, Ace/121 Gallery, January 17 - March 13, 2020
2019:
2B or 2H, that is the question, Boone Family Art Gallery, Pasadena City College, September 19 — October 18, 2019
Valley Girl Redefined, Brand Library & Art Center, January 26 - March 22, 2019
2018:
I Think Therefore I Art, Boone Family Art Gallery, Pasadena City College, September 20—October 19, 2018
To Have Or To Be, Ochi Projects Los Angeles, July 28 - September 8, 2018
Juried Exhibition 2018, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, July 22 - September 16, 2018
Melting Point: Movements in Contemporary Clay, Craft Contemporary, January 28 – May 6, 2018
2017:
Terrain Biennial, November 12 - 19, 2017
Sharpener, Boone Family Art Gallery, Pasadena City College, September 22—October 20, 2017
Hold, FAR BAZAAR at Cerritos College, January 28 – 29, 2017
2016:
Without Design or Sketch: The Story of The Room, LAUNCH LA, September 10 – October 1, 2016
LACE Benefit Art Auction, May 18, 2016
Go Big or Go Home, Brand Library & Art Center, February 20 - March 25, 2016
2015:
Highland Park Museum of Ceramic Art, Monte Vista Projects, November 15 - December 6, 2015
And There Is an End 2, James Harris Gallery, October 15 - November 21, 2015
35th Annual Exhibition and Art Auction, ICA San Jose, September 26 - October 24, 2015
Record. Collect. Compose. Charlie James Gallery, September 5 - October 17, 2015
summertime shift, Summercamp's ProjectProject, June 14 - 28, 2015
LadyGirlyFemale, Hammock Gallery, Los Angeles, March 28 - April 11, 2015
And There Is An End, Roberts & Tilton, March 14 – April 18, 2015
Pedagogic Clay 2, Frank M. Doyle Art Pavilion, Orange Coast College, January 28 – February 26, 2015
Control + Release, The Earl and Virginia Green Art Gallery, Biola University, January 26 – February 14, 2015
Savage Sentimentality, Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, January 12 – March 14, 2015
2014:
Sculpting in Time, Glendale Community College Art Gallery, September 16 - October 10, 2014
Transmogrification of the Ordinary, Angles Gallery, September 13 – November 8th, 2014
Savage Sentimentality, Cerritos College Art Gallery, August 25 – October 10, 2014
Sargents Daughters, Sargent’s Daughters, June 25 – July 26, 2014
Duckrabbit, Anat Ebgi Gallery, June 13 – July 26, 2014
Happening 2014: LACE Benefit Art Auction, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, May 18 - 27, 2014
MFA Exhibition #2, New Wight Gallery, UCLA, April 3 - 11, 2014
Shelf Perception, Annenberg Community Beach House, Santa Monica, Feb 27 - April 27, 2014
Ceramic Top 40, 2013, Red Star Studios, Kansas City, MO, November 1, 2013 - January 25, 2014
2013:
UCLA MFA Preview Exhibition, New Wight Gallery, UCLA, October 30 - November 14, 2013
2011:
2011 Thesis Exhibition, Master of Fine Arts/Master of Arts, CSUN Main Gallery, May 21 - June 11, 2011
CURATORIAL PROJECTS:
2022:
Still, Launch Gallery, Curated with "Rough Play" Curatorial Collective, April 2 - 30, 2022
2017:
Hold, FAR BAZAAR at Cerritos College, Curated with "Rough Play" Curatorial Collective, January 28 – 29, 2017
2016:
Without Design or Sketch: The Story of The Room, Curated with "Rough Play", LAUNCH LA, September 10 - October 1, 2016
Go Big or Go Home, Curated with "Rough Play", Brand Library & Art Center, February 20 - March 25, 2016
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA), Acquisition 2021
Escalette Permanent Collection, Chapman University, Acquisition 2019
ARTIST RESIDENCIES:
2019: VMA Artist in Residence, Long Beach City College
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:
Full-Time Ceramics Instructor, Antelope Valley College, Fall, 2026 - Present
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Ceramics, Pasadena City College, Fall 2017 - Present
Instructor, Introduction to Ceramics, California State University, Northridge, Spring, 2026 - Present
Instructor, Beginning Ceramics, El Camino College, Spring 2025 - Present
Instructor, Introduction to Ceramics, Cerritos College, Fall 2016 - Spring 2017
Instructor, Ceramics, Cypress College, Spring 2016
Instructor, Introduction to Ceramics, Orange Coast College, Fall 2015 - Spring, 2016
Instructor, Introduction to Ceramics, California State University, Northridge, Fall 2015
LACMA Teaching Artist, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Winter 2014 - Spring, 2018
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:
2022 - 2026:
Created “Open Forms: Conversations in Contemporary Clay” at Pasadena City College. Awarded Community Excellence Grants in 2022 and 2023 to launch and then to continue the lecture series, “Open Forms: Conversations in Contemporary Clay” at Pasadena City College. “Open Forms” features visiting artist lectures by artists working with ceramic processes. In addition to giving an artist talk, “Open Forms” artists provide demonstrations for and lead workshops with PCC ceramics students. Speakers featured in the program (in order of appearance) were Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Virgil Ortiz, Ashwini Bhat in conversation with Jenni Sorkin, Nicki Green in conversation with Jeanne Vaccaro, Joel Otterson, and Ehren Tool.
2019 - 2026:
Created Ceramics Student Conference Opportunity Program at Pasadena City College. Created the Ceramics Student Conference Opportunity Program at Pasadena City College, which secured student services and Community Excellence Grant funds for selected students to attend the NCECA and CCACA ceramics conferences in 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2026.
SELECTED PRESS:
“PCC Foundation Gives Over $900,000 in Grants”, Outlook Pasadena, June 24, 2022
"Newsletter: An art park fundraiser aims to revitalize an olive grove", by Deborah Vankin and Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, November 20, 2021
“Meet Emily Sudd: Artist”, Shoutout LA, February 8, 2021, ShoutoutLA.com
“What She Said: Living in Dystopia at Ace/121 Gallery”, by Eve Wood, Art and Cake, January 28, 2020, artandcakela.com
"Conversations with the Inspiring Emily Sudd", Voyage LA Magazine, May 28, 2019, VoyageLA.com
“Redefining the, Like, Idea of the Valley Girl”, by Sheila Marikar, The New Yorker, February 4, 2019
“What’s a ‘Valley Girl’?, Local Area Artists Want to Break the Mold and Reclaim It”, by Ariella Plachta, Los Angeles Daily News, December 9, 2018
"From the Ragged to the Glazed, the Distilled to the Distressed: A Survey of Ceramics in LA", by George Melrod, artcritical.com, May 2, 2018
"Ceramic art, once written off as mere craft, wins a brighter spotlight in the L.A. scene", by Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, April 25, 2018
"Melting Point" at the Craft and Folk Art Museum, by Molly Enholm, ArtScene/Visual Art Source, April 2, 2018
"Los Angeles Artist Collectives You Should Check Out", by Diane Williams, Art and Cake, September 3, 2017
"An Abandoned Midcentury Building at Cerritos College Is Becoming a Guerrilla Art Gallery Before It's Demolished" by Catherine Womack, LA Weekly, January 26, 2017
"A Breath of Fresh Air in the Season of Art Fairs: The FAR Bazaar" by Evan Senn, Art and Cake, January 16, 2017
“Channeling Whistler’s Peacock Room at LAUNCH LA" by Genie Davis, Art and Cake, September 27, 2016
"6 LA Artists You Should Know" by Belinda Gosbee, Citizine, May 11, 2016
"'And There Is an End' -- but no end to its goofy appeal" by David Pagel, Los Angeles Times, March 21, 2015
"Weingart Exhibit Melds Thrifted Objects, Ceramics", Occidental Weekly, 2015
"Conversation: Emily Sudd", Artblitz Los Angeles, artblitzla.com, 2014
SELECTED PANELS/LECTURES:
Artist Walkthrough of Plateaus: Art that Resonates at Art Share L.A., 2024
Artist Walkthrough with Emily Sudd, Ashley Hagen, and Elizabeth Tinglof for Seeds-Soil, Seaver Gallery at The Marlborough School, 2020
Artist Walkthrough and Conversation, Valley Girl Redefined, Brand Library and Art Center, 2019
Artist walkthrough with Emily Sudd and Magalie Guérin, James Harris Gallery, October 20, 2018
Visiting Artist Lecturer, Westridge School, 2015
Visiting Artist Lecturer, Art 11 E – Introduction to Ceramics, UCLA, 2015
Panelist, “Savage Sentimentality Panel Discussion”, Chaffey College, February 10, 2015
MFA Presenter for "Pedagogical Clay 2" Lecture Series, Orange Coast College, January 30, 2015
Panelist, "Perception: An Artist Panel", Annenberg Community Beach House, April 22, 2014
Panelist, Artworld Perspectives Panel [Screening of “Herb and Dorothy”], Pierce College, April 15, 2013
NCECA Graduate Student Lecture, March 31, 2010
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Savage Sentimentality Exhibition Catalogue, Published by Cerritos College Art Gallery, 2014
Ceramic Top 40 Exhibition Catalogue, Published by Ferrin Contemporary, 2014
This is Not to Be Looked at: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, permanent collection catalogue—contributed artist entries on Joel Shapiro and George Segal
SELECTED AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS:
Department of Art Graduate Award, University of California, Los Angeles, 2013
Resnick Scholarship, University of California, Los Angeles, 2013
Laurette Green Scholarship, University of California, Los Angeles, 2013
Department of Art Graduate Award, University of California, Los Angeles, 2012
Resnick Scholarship, University of California, Los Angeles, 2012
Laurette Green Scholarship, University of California, Los Angeles, 2012
Department of Art Graduate Award, University of California, Los Angeles, 2011
Laura Andreson Scholarship, University of California, Los Angeles, 2011
Thesis Support Award, California State University, Northridge, 2010
Excellence in Ceramics Scholarship, Pasadena City College, 2008
Jean Ward Foundation Scholarship in Ceramics, Pasadena City College, 2007