Sanam Emami

Bio

Sanam Emami makes pots and tiles with a specific intent - a function. Ideas come from different places; a book, a conversation or a glimpse of something familiar like a favorite historical pot that can seem new, as if seen for the first time. The concept of unity with variety is important and she is interested in creating contrasting gestures that can coexist within the work through mark making, symmetry and repeated patterns.

Emami is a ceramic artist and an Associate Professor of Pottery at Colorado State University, Fort Collins. She received a BA in History from James Madison University in Virginia, and an MFA in Ceramics from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. She was a Visiting Assistant Professor in Ceramics at Alfred University, resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation in Montana, and has lectured at the Office for the Arts at Harvard University; the Kansas City Art Institute; Arizona State University Art Museum-Ceramic Research Center, and NCECA in Louisville, Kentucky. She received a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant for Craft and her work has been in exhibitions at numerous galleries across the country including The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston; Greenwich House Pottery, New York City; The Art-Stream Nomadic Gallery; Northern Clay Center, Minnesota.

Solo Exhibitions

2014 Sanam Emami: New Work, Crimson Laurel Gallery, Bakersville NC
2014 Artist of the Month, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis MN
2013 Garnitures and Tableware, Esther and John Clay Fine Arts Gallery, Laramie County Community College, Cheyenne WY
2011 Arabesques, Two-Person Exhibition, Berger Art Center, Kansas City MO
2009 Sanam Emami: New Work, Brickhouse Ceramic Art Center, Long Island City NY
2009 Organic Precisionism, Greenwich House Pottery, New York NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2015 Architecture of Touch, Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO
2014 Matthew Metz, Linda Sikora and Sanam Emami, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia PA
2014 Object, Structure, Subject, Western Colorado Center for the Arts, Grand Junction, CO
2014 Pour, The Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred University, Alfred NY
2013 Clay Prints: Image, Surface and Narrative in Contemporary Ceramics, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne IN
2013 The Dinnerware Museum: Three Courses, Dinnerware Museum, Ann Arbor MI
2013 The Feast: Art for the Table, Harvey Meadows Gallery, Aspen CO
2013 Duets, Clay Art Center, Port Chester NY
2013 Art-Stream Nomadic Gallery, National Conference on Education of Ceramic Art, Houston TX
2012 Our Cup Runneth Over: Functional & Sculptural Ceramic Cups, The Society of Arts & Crafts, Boston MA
2012 Pots at Rest, Clay Studio of Philadelphia, Philadelphia PA
2012 Sources and Influences: Clay Artists, Mentors and Students, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington WV
2011 Year of Turkey: Ceramics Material and Material Culture, Flushing Town Hall, Flushing NY
2011 Islamic Influences, National Conference on Education of Ceramic Art, Crossroads Gallery, St. Petersburg College, Clearwater FL
2011 Sensual Ceramics, Carbondale Clay Center, Carbondale CO
2010 Form Follows Function, Greenwich House Pottery, New York NY
2010 Crafted: A Collector’s Series, The Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh PA
2010 Conversations, Coincidences and Motivations, The Snyderman-Works Gallery, Philadelphia PA
2010 Makers Market, Curated by American Craft, The Noguchi Musuem, R20th Century and Socrates Sculpture Park, Socrates Sculpture Market, Long Island City NY
2009 Paper or Pottery – Not Plastic, Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield MA
2009 Teapots: Interpretations, Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield MA

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