BIO

Emma Ulen-Klees (b. 1992, Elysian, MN) is a multidisciplinary artist and writer whose work centers the fragmentation and transformation of landscape.  Her individual but interconnected projects come together to mourn extinction and absence, magnify the accumulation of plastics, and interrogate the distortionary nature of western cartography, while still allowing for the beauty and awe vital to emotional relationships to place. 

Ulen-Klees earned a Printmaking BFA from California College of the Arts (2014), and MFA from Cornell University (2020).  Past awards include the Jerome Foundation Early Career Printmaking Fellowship, Ralls Scholarship in Painting, Yozo Hamaguchi Scholarship in Printmaking, as well as the Kala Art Institute Emerging Artist Residency. She has exhibited at the Missoula Art Museum (Missoula, MT), Zolla/ Lieberman Gallery (Chicago, IL), Jack Hanley Gallery (New York, NY), Safe Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Anglim Gilbert Gallery (San Francisco, CA) as well as in Oakland, Berkeley, CA, and Ithaca, NY. Internationally she has exhibited in Osaka, Japan and Hjalteyri, Iceland.