Bio

Emily Pettigrew (b. 1991, York, Maine) lives and works out of an 18th-century house in the Catskill Mountains of New York. She graduated with a BFA from Pratt Institute and has exhibited both internationally and domestically, including solo shows at The Journal Gallery (NY, NY), Halsey McKay Gallery (East Hampton, NY), and The Fenimore Museum (Cooperstown, NY). Pettigrew’s work is part of the permanent collection of the Hall Art Foundation in Vermont and has been exhibited at the Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg (Holle, DE).

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EDUCATION

Pratt Institute, New York, NY

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026

Genii Loci, SHRINE, New York, NY

2025

Emily Pettigrew - Painting in the Catskills 2021-2025, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY

2024

Dear Diary the Villager’s Aren’t Accepting Me, Journal Gallery, New York, NY

2023

Wheel of the Year, Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY

2022

The Beauty of Solitude, Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, MD

2021

Too Pure for this World, solo show funded by New York State Council on the Arts grant, Historic Hunting Tavern Museum, Andes, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026

PAINT YOUR LIFE!, Leo Koenig, Andes, NY

2025

In the American Grain, three person exhibition, Huxley Parlour Gallery, London, ENG

Benefit Auction for Artistic Noise at Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY

Inside Out II, Scroll, New York, NY

2024

ALL Small, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY

Hope Bites, SHRINE, New York, NY

The Inside Out, a cross-generational survey including works by Lois Dodd, Nan Goldin, Philip Guston and others at the Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg, A venue of the Hall Art Foundation, Derneburg, Germany

Pablo’s Cabinet, a satellite exhibition of Pablo’s Birthday, Verbier, Switzerland

2023

Untitled Art Fair with Pablo’s Birthday, Miami Beach, FL

A Room With a View, Varden Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Nada New York with Halsey McKay Gallery, New York, NY

Time, Pablo’s Birthday, New York, NY

2022

Inside Out, Scroll NYC, New York, NY

Balm, two-person show, Wilder Gallery, London, ENG

Half Gallery, office, New York, NY

2021

Odd Hours, two-person show, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY

2018

GIFC, traveling show at R/SF Projects, San Francisco, CA, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA, Gallery Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm, Sweden, Rod Bianco Gallery, Oslo, Norway, and The Hole, New York, NY

2017

Single Fare 4, at Highline Stages, New York, NY

2013

Student Scholarship Exhibition at the Society of Illustrators, New York, NY

Pratt Show at Manhattan Center, New York, NY

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

2023

“Trending Artist” at Nada New York 2023

2022

Nominated for the Art Awards and Purchase Program of the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2021 - Roxbury Arts Group Grant via the New York State Arts

2018

Residency at the Cill Rialaig Retreat, Ballinskelligs, Ireland

2013

Society of Illustrators Nancy Lee Rhodes Roberts Scholarship Award