About the artist:
Contact: emilyrensink@gmail.com
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Individual Exhibitions
Passages: A Ceramic Installation By Emily Rensink, Cy-Fair College, Cypress, TX. 2004
Emily Rensink: New Work, Pascal Robinson Galleries, Houston, TX. 2002
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 NAEA Member Exhibition, 12 juror panel, National Art Education Association, www.arteducators.org, 2023
VAA 39th Membership Exhibition, juror Matt Reeves, Reeves Art + Design, Houston, TX 2023
Material World: A Contemporary Fiber Art Exhibition, curator Adrianne Trego, The Arts Council of Fayetteville/Cumberland County, Fayetteville, NC 2023
Hotter N’ Hell, juror Michael W. Howes, Orville Hanchey Gallery, Natchitoches, LA 2023
The 2023 Texas Sculpture Group Members Show, juror Marcie J. Inman, Irving Arts Center, Irving, TX 2023
Visual Arts Alliance 39th Juried Open Exhibition, juror Heidi Vaughan, Sabine Street Studios, Houston, TX 2023
93rd Annual Juried Artists Exhibition, juror Catherine Walworth, Ph.D., San Antonio Art League & Museum, San Antonio, TX 2023
57th Annual Drawing &Small Sculpture Show, juror Barbara Simcoe, Del Mar College, Corpus Christie, TX 2023
CraftForms 2022, juror Jeannine Falino, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA 2022-23
TAEA Annual Members Show, juror el Seed, Galveston, TX 2022
ClayHouston 2022 Member Exhibition “Equation of State”, Rec Room Arts, Houston, TX 2022
Artistic Independence Online Exhibition, Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA, 2022
Southern Miss Ceramics National 2022, Juror George Rodriguez, University of Southern Mississippi Gallery of Art and Design, Hattiesburg, MS 2022
ISC Professional Member Exhibition, International Sculpture Center, Artsy.net, 2022
Texas Sculpture SLTX, Art Museum TX, Sugar Land, TX 2022
2022 NAEA Member Exhibition, National Art Education Association, www.arteducators.org, 2022
Inspired Views, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA, 2022
12th Annual “Figurative” Online Art Exhibition, Light Space Time Online Gallery, www.light space time.art, 2022
It’s OK to Laugh (online), O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, juror M. Louise Stanley, Mill Valley, CA 2022
Spring Exhibition (online), I Like Your Work, guest curator Marcela Florido, 2022
No Man’s Land, Shockboxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA 2022
24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, juror James Watkins, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX 2022
56th Annual National Drawing & Small Sculpture Show, juror Sharon Kopriva, Del Mar College, Corpus Christie, TX 2022
Rock/Paper/Clay, Mossrock Studio, The Woodlands, TX 2021
Broken and Whole, The Museum of Biblical Art, Dallas, TX 2021-23
Twin Cups: National Ceramics Exhibition, Missouri Western State University, Saint Joseph, MO 2020
ClayHouston 2019 Member Exhibition: “Dimensional”, Sabine Street Gallery, Houston, TX 2019-20
Artcrawl: Mother Nature, Human Nature, Back to Nature, Mother Dog Studios, Houston, TX 2019-20
TAEA (Texas Art Education Association) Electronic Gallery, 2nd Place 3D, annual conference, Galveston, TX. 2019
Artcrawl: Body Language, Mother Dog Studios, Houston, TX 2018-19
13th Open Call Exhibition: ANIMALS, Art Car Museum, Houston, TX 2018-19
Tenth Annual Juried Exhibition, Juror: Diane Griffin Gregory, Archway Gallery, Houston, TX 2018
TAEA (Texas Art Education Association) Electronic Gallery, annual conference, Galveston, TX. 2015
I Am, You Are, Art7 Gallery, Fort Worth, TX 2014
Americana, Art7 Gallery, Fort Worth, TX. 2014
Best of Texas Clay, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX. 2013
2006 Annual HCC-Central Faculty Art Exhibition, Houston Community College, Central Campus, Houston, TX. 2006
Alpha/Omega, Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR. 2005
2005 Annual HCC-Central Faculty Art Exhibition, Houston Community College, Central Campus, Houston, TX. 2005
MishMash Redux, The Midland Arts & Antiques Market Building, during the 38th annual NCECA (National Council for Education in the Ceramic Arts), Indianapolis, IN. 2004
Art Crawl 2003, located at The Docks in the studio of Polly Liu, Houston, TX. 2003
Two Daring Artists, two-person show with Gary Thomas, hosted by Alicia Von Greisman and Julie Grayum, Café Noche, Houston, TX. 2003
UD-SFA Exhibition, Curator: Piero Fenci, University of Dallas, Irving, TX. 2003
Two Woman Show, Heights Branch Public Library, Houston, TX. 2000
Working Women Artists & The Legacy of Women’s Art History, a series of exhibitions and programs for Women’s History Month, Houston, TX. 2000
Ya Ya Reboot (On-Line), Houston Women’s Caucus for the Arts’ Annual Membership Exhibition, Houston, TX. 1999
Visual Interlude, Houston Women’s Caucus for the Arts’ Annual Membership Exhibition, Julia Ideson Building, Houston, TX. 1990
Commissions
Fortune Favors the Bold, Apache Corporation, Houston, TX. September 2003
Reviews
Von Greisman, Alicia. “Artist’s Reception Extraordinaire,” Houston’s Best, Movers and Shakers Section, September 2002, p.7.
Lectures
Guest Speaker, East Texas Art League, Jasper, TX. 2002
Related Honors/Publications
Artistonish Contemporary Art Magazine, October 2021
Clay Houston Member Spotlight, November 2021
TAEA (Texas Art Education Association) Electronic Gallery, 2nd Place 3D, annual conference, Galveston, TX. 2019
Inclusion in the Potter’s Council 2009 Calendar – Collection I (May)
From Mud to Music: Making and Enjoying Ceramic Musical Instruments by Barry Hall, 2006, p.160
Collections
2023 Museum of Biblical Art (https://www.biblicalarts.org/), Dallas TX - “A Fork in the Path” (2014)
2002 Bert L. Long Jr. (1940-2013) - “Cabasa” (2002)