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Emily Harter is a Lecturer in Art Practice at Stanford University and an MFA candidate (Cohort 2023, expected graduation 2025). Her interdisciplinary practice spans painting, printmaking, and ceramics, creating worlds governed by cartoon logic and populated by hedonistic shape-shifters that interrogate identity, obligation, and desire.
She earned a BA in Studio Art and Art History from Oberlin College and is pursuing her MFA at Stanford. Her research critically engages Netherlandish genre painting, Hogarth/Daumier satire, and Golden Age animation to dissect societal roles through visual paradoxes and historical juxtaposition.
Harter's recent output reveals consistent thematic depth across mediums, blending contemporary critique with art historical references. Her 2024-2025 works explore temporal cycles (seasonal gouache series), vulnerability (etchings like 'A Pinch Would Annihilate Him'), and ritualistic social dynamics (paintings such as 'Merrie Company'), unified by satirical narrative and formal experimentation.
Her accolades include:
- 2025-2026 Headlands Graduate Fellowship
- AAF/Seebacher Prize for Fine Arts
- Cadogan Scholarship
- 2020 MAPC Travel Grant
- 2024 Murphy & Cadogan Award
As a lecturer, Harter contributes to Stanford's Art Practice pedagogy while maintaining an active studio. She co-founded Pigeon Hole Press (2020) for intaglio print production and has held residencies at Lighthouse Works, Arts Letters & Numbers, and After 1920, demonstrating sustained engagement with collaborative artistic communities.
