Emily McIlroy

Emily McIlroy is a Lecturer at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, specializing in drawing and painting. She also teaches at the Honolulu Museum of Art School and the Hawaiʻi State Art Museum. Her work bridges inner and outer landscapes through abstraction, exploring themes of love, loss, grief, and wonder via natural world metaphors. McIlroy employs repetitive rendering and erasure techniques in her large-scale works on paper, addressing impermanence and continuity.

• Education:
• MFA, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
• BA (summa cum laude), Studio Art, University of Arizona

Her research focuses on the interplay between environments, minds, and bodies, seeking to connect the enduring with the temporal and the visible with the invisible. Courses taught include Introduction to Drawing, Advanced Drawing, and Life Drawing. No formal grants or awards are listed in the provided text.