Gina D’Emilio’s work explores how emotion accumulates in the body and embeds itself in daily patterns. Using painting, drawing, collage, and sculptural assemblage, she treats repetition as containment and pattern as emotional oscillation. Familiar forms and materials are disrupted by repetition, shifts in scale, color, alignment, and surface. Reflective papers, fluorescent pigments, layered surfaces, and fractured or repeating forms create optical instability, pulling viewers between attraction and unease as order slips: colors vibrate, forms misalign, patterns resist resolution. Interested in the gap between expectation and experience, D’Emilio views stress, fear, desire, and anticipation as recurring forces that leave physical and psychological traces. Her work asks how patterns form, shape us, and what happens when they begin to change.
Gina D’Emilio holds an MFA in Studio Art from Moore College of Art & Design and a BA in K-12 Art Education from Holy Family University. Her work has been shown internationally, including at Zona Maco Art Week in Mexico City with Proyectos De Residencia (PRPGMX), and online with Dab Art Gallery, Jen Tough Gallery, Deanna Evans Projects, and Toula Gallery. Her work is also published in Beautiful Foot by Nora Novak and in the book Artists of the Bay Area. She lives in San Francisco and teaches art education in Menlo Park.
EDUCATION
2013 MFA in Studio Art, Moore College of Art & Design
2010 BA in Art Education K-12/Studio Art, Holy Family University
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2026
Lower Haight Art Walk, LIFE, San Francisco, CA
2025
ArtSpan Open Studios, Artist’s Home Studio, San Francisco, CA
2019
How Endings Begin, LIFE, San Francisco, CA
New Work, LIFE, San Francisco, CA
ArtSpan Open Studios, Artist’s Home Studio, San Francisco, CA
2019
Lower Haight Art Walk, LIFE, San Francisco, CA
2018
Lower Haight Art Walk, LIFE, San Francisco, CA
2017
Lower Haight Art Walk, LIFE, San Francisco, CA
2010
Growth, Holy Family University Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2008
Featured Artist, Face and Body Spa, Yardley, PA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Refusés of the Bay, Voss Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2022
#IRL Incubator Artists in Residency @PRPGMX Mexico City, MX
2021
Zona Maco Art Week, Dab Art, Mexico City, Mexico April 24-June 5
Flat File, Deanna Evans Projects, New York, NY
Artsy.net imPosible, Proyecto Galería Y Proyectos De Residencía, Mexico City, MX, curated by Micheal Swank April 24-June 24
2020
Fragments, Arc Gallery, Juried by Jen Tough, San Francisco, CA
Muse, Toula Gallery, Online
Snap!, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Flat File, Deanna Evans Projects, New York, NY
2016
Faculty Art, Residence Gallery, Bryn Mawr, PA
2015
Databody, Galleries at Moore, Philadelphia, PA
2014
Inspirational Artistry Now, Residence Gallery, Bryn Mawr, PA
2013
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Levy Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2012
MFA Sneak Peek, Goldey Paley Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Moore College Group Show, Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Ireland
NASAD MFA Qualifying Review, Widener Memorial Foundation Gallery, PA
Art Extravaganza, Ukrainian League of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
New Hope Arts Center Sculpture Show, New Hope Arts Center, New Hope, PA
2011
Naked in New Hope, Sidetracks Art Gallery, New Hope, PA
2010
Naked in New Hope, Sidetracks Art Gallery, New Hope, PA
International Women's Day Exhibition, International House, Philadelphia, PA
2009
Girls Gotta Run, Holy Family University Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
WHYY-TV 12 Creative Campus Arts Festival, WHYY Technology Center, PA
Naked in New Hope, Sidetracks Art Gallery, New Hope, PA
2008
SEPCHE Honors Conference, Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, PA
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2021 Proyectos De Residencia, Mexico City, MX, Virtual Residency
2020 Proyectos De Residencia, Mexico City, MX, Virtual Residency
2012 Burren College of Art, Newtown Castle, Ballyvaughan, Ireland
PUBLICATIONS
2021 Artists Of The Bay Area, Published by Jen Tough
2020 Beautiful Foot, Published by Nora Novak
2013 Book of Burren, Moore College of Art & Design
LECTURES
2020 “Fragments Artist Talk,” Arc Gallery
2013 “One Way Communication,” Moore College of Art & Design
FILM & DOCUMENTARY
WHYY Creative Campus
CURATORIAL
2012 “Art Extravaganza,” Ukrainian League of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
HONORS AND AWARDS
Artist-in-Residence Fellowship, (2012), Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA
Studio Art Fellowship, (2011-2013), Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA
Above and Beyond Award, (2010), Holy Family University, Philadelphia, PA
Alumni Senior Award, (2009), Holy Family University, Philadelphia, PA
Presidential Merit Scholarship, (2008), Holy Family University, Philadelphia, PA
Athletics Scholarship, (2007/2008), Holy Family University, Philadelphia, PA