Bio/News
Emily Budd’s sculptural practice seeks queer futurity and place-making through reformative monuments, artifacts, fossils, and memorials. Her project, Memorial for Queer Rhyolite, marks an AIDS-era queer utopian effort in a Nevada ghost town and has been recognized by Nevada Humanities, The Washington Post, and Discovery Channel’s Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America among others. Her essay, Cruising the Monuments of the Outskirts of Las Vegas (After Smithson), was recently published by ecoartspace. Budd received an MFA from California College of the Arts in 2018 where she received a Cadogan scholarship from the San Francisco Foundation, and a BFA in Sculpture from Miami University. Budd has exhibited throughout the US including at SOMArts Cultural Center and Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco, Site:Brooklyn, the Barrick Museum of Art in Las Vegas, the University of Arizona in Tucson, and SEED Lab at the Anchorage Museum. Budd leads the expanding community project, Aluminati, which materializes the transformative and collaborative power of foundry craft to imagine and empower equitable change. Budd currently serves as Assistant Professor of Art in Sculpture at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
Recent Press:
Emily Budd Breaks the Mold: Founder of the Foundry Project Aluminati, by Karla Lagunas. Southwest Contemporary, Vol. 10, Radical Futures. September 6, 2024.
Abandoned Lot, Secluded Cove by Emily Budd by ASAP Gallery. August 6, 2024.
Interview on Discovery's Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America, Season 2, Episode 1. Available on Discovery Plus.
Rethinking Land Art at the Barrick, by Brent Holmes for Double Scoop Nevada.
Artists React to the Legacy of Nevada Land Art in Modern Desert Markings, by Steve Jansen for Southwest Contemporary.