Em Kettner

Em Kettner (b. 1988, Philadelphia, PA) is an artist and writer based in Richmond, CA. Recent solo exhibitions include Cyrano at Rebecca Camacho Presents (San Francisco, CA), Homebound at François Ghebaly Gallery (New York, NY), Sick Joke at Chapter NY (New York, NY), Slow Poke at François Ghebaly Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), The Eternal Worm at HARPY (Rutherford, NJ), and Play the Fool at Goldfinch (Chicago, IL). She’s participated in two-person and group exhibitions at F2T Gallery (Milan, Italy), Pangée (Montreal, Canada), Pipeline (London, UK), Outer Space (Concord, NH), the MFA (Boston, MA), Winter Street Gallery (Edgartown, MA), Candice Madey (New York, NY), and Et al. Gallery (San Francisco, CA), among others. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, CA; the Ohana Center, Monterey, CA; the DePaul Art Museum and The Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, both Chicago, IL. She has received the Wynn Newhouse Award, and is one of seven fellows awarded the 2025 inaugural SHACK15 Art Prize for Bay Area Artists.

Kettner’s work has been reviewed and published in the Paris Review, Cultured Magazine, ArtForum, Art in America, Sculpture Magazine, Contemporary Art Review LA (CARLA), HyperAllergic, Institutional Model, and Sixty Inches From Center. In 2023, Fulcrum Arts produced her interactive digital storybook, “Doctor, Doctor," an illustrated journey through history, myth, and patient-hood.

Em Kettner earned her BFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is represented by François Ghebaly Gallery in Los Angeles and New York.