Emily
kepulis
Gallery Representation
Maybaum Gallery
49 Geary Street Suite 416
San Francisco, CA 94108
415.658.7669
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Chefas Projects
134 SE Taylor St Suite 203
Portland, OR 97214
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Exhibitions
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2024. Chefas Project, Summer Collective, Portland OR
​2024 Maybaum Gallery, Two-Person Show, San Francisco CA
2024 Dumb Luck, Group Show, 3446 NE Broadway, Portland OR
2024 Works on paper 6, Blue Shop Galleries, Group Show, London UK
2024 The Big Softie, Soft Times Gallery, Group Show, San Francisco CA
2023 Land Between, Never Lab, Portland OR
2023 Views From The Other Side, Alberta Street Gallery, Group Show, Portland OR
2023 Common Ground, 312 2nd Ave S, Group Show, Seattle WA
2023 Awakenings, Sidestreet Arts, Three-Person Show, Portland OR
2023 Inside a Memory, Visionary Art Collective, Virtual Exhibition, New York NY
2023 Small Works, James May Gallery, Virtual Exhibition, Milwaukee WI
2023 Canyon, Fresh Salad, Online Exhibition, Virtual Exhibition, @freshsaladart
2023 Layers of Sentiment, Stumptown, Portland OR
2022 Water Briefed, Lolo Pass, Portland OR
2021 Canyons were already, Ernie and Gray, Salem OR
2020 Canyons were already, Jailbreak Studios, Portland OR
2019 Line and Ligament, The Ou Gallery, Two-Person, Show, Duncan British Columbia
2019 Horizon Line Sleepwalker, Jailbreak Studios, Portland OR
2018 Disco Rice, The Hazel Room, Portland OR
2018 Disco Rice, Turn Turn Turn, Portland OR
2017 Group Auction Fundraiser, UNA Gallery, Group Show, Portland OR
2017 Layers of Sentiment, Impossible Box Arts, Portland OR
2016 A Garden of Forking Paths, Trust Art Collective and Gallery, Group Show, Portland OR
2016 3rd Annual Living Mark Exhibition, Verum Ultimum Gallery, Group Show, Portland OR
2016 3rd Annual Abstract Sanctuary Exhibition, Group Show, Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland OR
2016 The Brief History of a Human, ZuZu Salon and Gallery, Portland OR
2015 The Printmaker’s Hand III, Group Show, Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend WA
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Future
2024 Group Show, A Sometimes Gallery, Portland OR
2025 Solo Show, Chefas Projects, Portland OR
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Public Art
2024 Interior Wall Mural, Lunch Counter, Jackson Hole WY
2024 Exterior Wall Mural, The Courts Skatepark, Portland OR
2023 Interior Wall Murals, 16 total, Good Shepherd Village Affordable Housing, Happy Valley OR
2023 Exterior Mosaic Mural, Design Completed, Scheduled Install 2025, Portland OR
2023 Interior Wall Mural, Henry Higgins, NW 23rd, Portland OR
2023 Interior Wall Mural, Henry Higgins, Sellwood, Portland, OR
2022 Exterior Ceiling Mural, Enso Hotel, San Francisco CA
2021 Airstream Interior Mural, Mobile Salon, CA
2021 Interior Wall Mural, Residential, Seattle WA
2020 Interior Wall Mural, Enso Float, Portland OR
2020 Temporary Exterior Wall Mural, Communion, Portland OR
2019 Interior Wall Mural, Residential, Portland OR
2019 Interior Wall Mural, Kenton Hotel, Portland OR
2018 Interior Wall Mural, Honeymoon Tattoo, Portland OR
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Publications
2023 Issue 6 New Visionary Magazine, Printed and Virtual, Visionary Art Collective
2023 Spring Exhibition Catalog, Printed and Virtual, I Like Your Work Podcast
2023 Suboart Magazine March 2023 #2, Printed and Virtual, Suboart
2022 Water Briefed Exhibition Review, Variable West
2022 “Water Briefed,” Printed Book, Regional Arts and Culture Council Grant
2015 “The Edge,” Online Magazine, The Gravity of the Thing
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Balancing Buoyancy and Desolation: Emily Kepulis at Lolo Pass - Variable West
New Visionary Magazine, Issue 6
Spring Exhibition Catalog (2023) | I LIKE YOUR WORK
Suboart Magazine March 2023 #2 by suboartmagazine - Issuu
The Edge | Emily Kepulis – The Gravity of the Thing
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Awarded
2023 Arts3C grant, Regional Arts and Culture Council
2021 Make|Learn|Build grant, Regional Arts and Culture Council
2019 Artist Residency, The Ou Gallery, Duncan British Columbia
2017 Working Artist Grant Recipient: http://workingartist.org/
Emily Kepulis is a mixed media visual artist and muralist living in
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Portland, OR.
Her paintings explore themes like home and selfhood, specifically how they are shaped by memory and experiences, always malleable, nonlinear, and ultimately based on perspective. She acknowledges home as a physical place as well as a place within the body and a locus of perception while referencing family photos, artwork from her lineage, her own past paintings, and anonymous found photos. With no painting being fully planned out, trust and transformation are important parts of the process and the final images. She is interested in how we are shaped by that which surrounds us, our perceptions of ourselves, and our attachment to the self in relation to the whole: what humanness means personally, socially, ancestrally, and spiritually.
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Kepulis graduated from Portland State University where she studied drawing, painting, printmaking, and creative writing. Her paintings have been shown with galleries throughout the United States, most recently being at Chefas Projects in Portland, Oregon and Maybaum Gallery in San Francisco. She has been commissioned for murals and paintings in both residential and commercial spaces, notably at Teton Lunch Counter in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and a ceiling mural at the entrance of Kimpton Hotel Enso in San Francisco. You can find her writing at the online magazine "The Gravity of the Thing'' as well as in her first solo printed publication "Water Briefed." Her paintings have been featured in Suboart Magazine, I Like Your Work Magazine, and Create! Magazine, among others.
