Em Kettner (b. 1988, Philadelphia, PA) is an artist and writer based in Richmond, CA. Her intricately crafted porcelain and textile works blend humor, storytelling, and social critique.
Kettner received her BFA from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia in 2011 and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in 2014. Recent solo exhibitions include François Ghebaly, New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA (2024, 2022, 2021); Chapter, New York, NY (2022); Specialist, Seattle, WA (2022); and Goldfinch, Chicago, IL (2020).
Her work has been included in two-person and group exhibitions at F2T Gallery, Milan, Italy (2025); Pangée, Montreal, Canada (2025); Pipeline, London, UK (2024); Outer Space, Concord, NH (2024); the MFA, Boston, MA (2023); Candice Madey, New York, NY (2022); and Et al. Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2025, 2022); among others.
Kettner's work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; the Ohana Center, Monterey, CA; the DePaul Art Museum and The Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Chicago, IL.
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Lucky Number Seven
30 Jun - 15 Aug 2026Seven colors in a rainbow, seven continents and seven seas, seven notes in a scale, seven wonders of the world, seven celestial bodies, God resting on the seventh day and...Read more -
Project Room | Em Kettner
Cyrano 18 Sep - 1 Nov 2025Em Kettner’s first solo project room exhibition at Rebecca Camacho Presents, Cyrano , includes small-scale tapestries, ceramic sculptures with delicate weavings, and glazed porcelain tiles inset into hand carved walnut...Read more
