Emily K. Holmes is a Sacramento, California-based arts writer and editor whose interests include queer and feminist art. Her contemporary art writing focuses on issues of gender, race, the intersection of art and technology, photography, and performance art. She has been a regular freelance contributor for PBS/NPR-affiliate KQED Arts since 2015.
Emily was a recipient of the Art Writing Workshop award from the Arts Writer Grant Program (The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Creative Capital). Her scholarship was featured in San Francisco's Queer Cultural Center's Emerging Scholars Program through a QCCA (Queer Conversations on Culture and the Arts) panel, "Queer Technologies." In 2016, she was a guest curator for The News at SOMArts in San Francisco, a performance arts showcase featuring new and experimental works-in-progress by queer and trans artists.
As an editor, she has worked extensively with emerging and student writers at California College of the Arts, as well as with established critics, artists, and private clients. She was recently the editor of Generations, an artist's book by Klea McKenna that was named one of Art in America's Best Photography Books of 2018.
Emily holds a MA in Visual and Critical Studies from California College of the Arts and a BA in Visual Art from The Evergreen State College.
Emily was a recipient of the Art Writing Workshop award from the Arts Writer Grant Program (The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Creative Capital). Her scholarship was featured in San Francisco's Queer Cultural Center's Emerging Scholars Program through a QCCA (Queer Conversations on Culture and the Arts) panel, "Queer Technologies." In 2016, she was a guest curator for The News at SOMArts in San Francisco, a performance arts showcase featuring new and experimental works-in-progress by queer and trans artists.
As an editor, she has worked extensively with emerging and student writers at California College of the Arts, as well as with established critics, artists, and private clients. She was recently the editor of Generations, an artist's book by Klea McKenna that was named one of Art in America's Best Photography Books of 2018.
Emily holds a MA in Visual and Critical Studies from California College of the Arts and a BA in Visual Art from The Evergreen State College.
