Bio

Emily C-D (b. 1983) is a transdisciplinary artist originally from Maryland, based in Mexico for over a decade, and working on both sides of the border. She investigates the tension between social and environmental issues through painting, sculpture, social practice and performance, creating multilayered projects that challenge our human interaction with nature, often while simultaneously weaving people-place connections. Throughout her 20+ year career, she has exhibited her work in numerous solo and group shows, in addition to collaborating with diverse communities to transform public spaces with murals, interactive installations, and urban gardens. Notable solo exhibition venues include the Geology Museum of UNAM (Mexico City, 2025), Charco del Ingenio Botanical Garden (San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, 2025) and Julio Fine Arts Gallery at Loyola University (Baltimore, MD, 2012). Emily received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art (2005) and was a two-time recipient of the Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grant, in the categories of sculpture (2014) and works on paper (2010). In Mexico, she has been an artist-in-residence at Casa Gallina (Mexico City, 2023), the Guapamacátaro Art & Ecology Center (Michoacán, 2012), Gubidxa Gallery (Oaxaca, 2011) and the FARO de Oriente (Iztapalapa, 2010). In 2024, she received 2nd prize in the category of Other Disciplines in Dialogue with Ceramics at the 63rd Annual International Ceramic Art Salon organized by the Argentine Center for Ceramic Art (CAAC). As the visual voice of the Somos Semilla Seed Library since its inception in 2015, her work promoting seed sovereignty through art has been integral to amplifying the agroecology movement in Mexico and beyond. Emily C-D currently lives with her son in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato.