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Yantra VI, 1985, 60" x 60", woven, shaped, pieced.
Talk Story, 2010, detail, ink, pen, tapa.
Fig Leaf, 2007, 10x8x3", woven thread, stiffened.
Scottish Game Feather, 4 1996, 10x8"
RESUME SELECTIONS
COLLECTIONS
Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museums, Washington, DC.
Mingei International Museum, San Diego, CA.
San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI.
Hawai’i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Honolulu, HI.
M.H. deYoung Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA.
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA.
The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM.
Hastings School of Law, San Francisco, CA.
Aichi Shibori Archive, Nagoya, Japan.
City of Loveland Offices, Loveland, CO.
Niwako Kimono Company, Nagoya, Japan.
Pfizer Inc., New York, NY.
Private collections throughout the world.
AWARDS
Jurors Awards, Hawaii Craftsmen ASJE, Honolulu Museum of Art, 2017 and 2015.
Paul Loo Memorial Award, Hawaii Craftsmen ASJE, Honolulu Museum of Art, 2014.
American Bamboo Societies Award, 2013.
Hawai’i State Foundation for Culture and the Arts, 2011.
California Arts Council Fellowship in Visual Arts, 1990.
Fashion Foundation Award, Japan, 1989.
National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, 1984.
NEA/Fiberworks Exhibits/Projects Grant, 1983.
U.C. Berkeley Professional Studies Program in India Fellowship, 1980-81.
EXHIBITIONS
2022 New Directions, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose CA, USA.
2017 Abstractions, Honolulu Museum of Art First Hawaiian Center, Honolulu HI.
2017 Hawaii Craftsmen 50th Annual Juried Statewide Exhibition, Honolulu, HI.
2017 Abstracts Only! Wailoa Art and Cultural Center, Hilo, HI.
2016 Fiber Hawaii, Honolulu Museum of Art School Gallery, Honolulu, HI.
2016 Abstracts Only! Wailoa Arts & Cultural Center, Hilo, HI.
2015 Poetry Scores Hawaii: Look Like What It Is, Invitational, University of Hilo, Hilo HI.
2014 36 Views of Leahi, Arts at MARKS Garage, Honolulu, HI.
2012 Fiber Philadelphia, Crane Arts Building, Philadelphia, PA.
2011 GREEN: the Color and the Cause, Textile Museum, Washington, DC.
2010 Earth Tones, Pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific Grove, CA.
2009 Towards the Divine, Maui Hands Gallery, Paia, HI
2008 6th International Fiber Biennial Snyderman-Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
2007 Intimate Apparel, Pi Gallery Kansas City MO, toured US to 2009.
2006 Emily DuBois: Fiber Art, Artsplace, Ponca City, OK.
2005 Beauty, Prestige and Power, deYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA, to 2006.
2005 High Fiber, from permanent collection, Renwick Gallery, SAAM, Washington, DC.
2005 Fibre: a New World View, Irish Craft Council, Kilkenny, Ireland.
2004 Emily DuBois: The Richness of Nature, TNCA Gallery, Tainan, Taiwan, R.O.C.
2003 Future Heirlooms, Mingei Museum, works from permanent collection, San Diego, CA.
2002 Shibori Now, Red Brick Warehouse, Yokohama, Japan.
2001 E-textiles, Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal, toured Canada and Australia to 2002.
2001 Fiber Art, Art in Embassies Program, Consulate, Ankara, Turkey.
2001 Annual International Exchange Exhibition, Daegu Culture and Art Center, Daegu, Korea.
2000 7th Annual Shoebox Sculpture, UH Manoa Art Gallery, toured US and Taiwan.
1997 Orimono: Emily DuBois, Yoko Arai, ArtSpace, Tokyo, Japan.
1996 Textiles and New Technology, London Crafts Council, toured Europe.
1995 Possibilities of Weaving, Alaska Pacific University and Fairbanks Arts Council, AK.
1994 Biennial Internationale de la Tapestry, Museum de Beaux Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland.
1992 7th International Triennale of Tapestry, Central Museum of Textiles, Lodz, Poland.
1992 Contemporary Shibori Citizens Gallery, Nagoya, Japan.
1991 Woven Structures in the Computer Age, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN, toured US.
1990 Arte Textil Fibers, Florida State University, Tallahassee, toured Colombia, SA.
1989 International Textile Design, Fashion Foundation, Tokyo, Japan.
PUBLICATIONS
Fiber Arts Now, Vol 7 Issue 2 Winter, fiberartnow.net, 2017.
Made in Code: Digital Visions, Clarke and Harris, Thames & Hudson, 2012.
Emily DuBois, Artists Magazine, Vol. 3, Taipei, Taiwan, 2004.
Emily DuBois: Portfolio Collection, Telos Art Publishing, UK, 2003.
Memory on Cloth, Yoshiko Wada, Kodansha, 2002.
Emily DuBois: The Cosmogenic Weave, Surface Design Journal, April Kingsley, Fall, 1998.
Nouvel Objet III, Design House, Seoul, Korea, 1997.
Bridging Worlds, School of Materials Technology, PCTS, Philadelphia, PA, 1996.
Textiles & New Technology: 2010, O'Mahony & Braddock Eds., London Crafts Council, 1994.
American Fiber Now, Artists Magazine, Teresa Huang, Taipei, Taiwan, August, 1993.
Transforming Textiles, Fiberarts, Donna Larsen Endlich & Sylvia Seventy, Jan/Feb, 1992.
Shibori II, Unsodo Co., Ltd., Japan, front and back book covers and color plate 3, 1990.
Culture and Power in Banaras, Freitag, Sandria B., editor Berkeley: Univ of Calif Press,1989
Ars Textrina, Banaras Brocade Weaving, Vol 3, Winnnipeg, Canada, 1986.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Workshops, US, Canada, Europe, Asia, 1983 - 2007.
Speaker, TAFTA, Volcanoes National Park, HI, 2006.
Keynote Speaker, Sustainable Culture conference, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C., 2005.
Speaker, Friends of Fiber Arts, SOFA, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL, 2000 and 2005.
Visiting Artist, Taiwan National University of Applied Arts, Tainan, 2004.
Faculty, Textile Department, California College of Arts, Oakland, CA, 1983-2001.
Faculty, Department of Environmental Design, UC Davis, CA 1995-2000.
Visiting Artist, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, 1994-1995.
Faculty, Fort Mason Art Center/City College, San Francisco CA 1988-1994.
Visiting Artist, Summer Session, Chicago Art Institute, 1992.
Speaker and Workshop, International Shibori Symposium, Nagoya, Japan, 1992.
2010 - present
2010 - present
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