Em Rooney received a BA from Hampshire College in 2005 and an MFA from Tyler School of Art in 2011. In 2012 she attended the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture. Recent exhibitions include group shows at Motel (Brooklyn) and Simone Subal (New York). Recent two person and solo projects include: The Vanity East (Los Angeles), Raising Cattle (Montreal), Bodega (New York), Columbus College of Art and Design (Columbus), The Good Press Gallery (Glasgow), Vox Populi (Philadelphia). Her writing has appeared in Art Papers, Performa Magazine, and The St. Claire. Rooney was a resident at the Shandaken Project in 2015, and in 2016 she was part of the Centre for Experimental Lectures annual Labour Day performing her piece Deep Black Lakes.

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