emily d'achiardi → b. 2001 → she/her → born in georgia → based in california → how do we archive a feeling → typing, deleting, typing again → thinking about memory, media, + interfaces can the internet be tender? ← text as touch → archiving as care ←

education

ba. art history → reed college 2024
mfa → university of california, santa barbara 2026

experience

production intern → tre native
atlanta, ga 2021
visual media intern → maison arts publishing
los angeles, ca 2022
production intern → desert island studios
portland, or 2023
contemporary art curatorial intern → portland art museum
portland, or 2024

curatorial

anything but this, 7th edition → the wrong biennale
co-curator with jiaqi liu
online 2025
common thread: undergraduate exhibition
assistant curator with alexis childress
art, design, & architecture museum, santa barbara, ca 2025
the locker residency
guest juror
university of california, santa barbara, ca 2025

teach / workshop

glass box gallery coordinater + intern mentor
fall ta for glass box gallery (ucsb) 2025
teaching sensitive topics in ss/hums
workshop for ta orientation (ucsb) 2025
html day 2025: los angeles
workshop / hang organized for html.energy2025
lower division printmaking
summer ta for kate saubestre (ucsb) 2025
visual literacy
summer ta for helen taschian (ucsb) 2025
hand coding the web (part i + ii)
workshop for sb creative lab 2025
introduction to contemporary practice III - art, science, and technologies
winter ta for sarah rosalena brady (ucsb) 2025
introduction to computer programming in the arts
fall ta for lisa jevbratt (ucsb) 2024

artist talk

artist talk
art 1a visual literacy, uc santa barbara2025

selected group exhibitions

tender machines → new media art club + the wrong biennale
online 2025
premiere showcase → gloze museum
houston, tx 2025
first year review: convergence → red barn project space
santa barbara, ca 2025
no thing, season 4 → thing.tube + museum of moving image
nyc, ny 2025
no thing, season 4 → thing.tube + nguyen wahed gallery
nyc, ny 2025
fever dreams → glass box gallery
santa barbara, ca 2024
NEW WORLDS → recspec gallery + museum of human achievement
austin, tx 2024
films by very young people → life world
nyc, ny 2022

awards / fellowships

lead ta → university of california, santa barbara 2025
israel levitan graduate fellowship → university of california, santa barbara 2025
regents' special fellowship → university of california, santa barbara 2024
summer internship award → reed college 2023

publications

skrew magazine, issue 5 2025
skrew magazine, issue 4 2025
digital america, issue 24 2024
reed college creative review, issue 24 2024
digital america, issue 22 2023

press

digital america, q + a with emily d'achiardi 2024