Emily Legleitner is a Detroit-based artist with an interdisciplinary practice focused in print media and installation. Her work examines auto-biographical experiences and emotions associated with anxiety, mortality, longing, and the human condition. Raised in Flint, Michigan within a blue collar family, Legleitner explores the consequences of choice and inaction in her imagery, inspired by the notion of lineage.
Legleitner’s work has shown in group and solo exhibitions throughout North America and abroad, winning notable awards including Best of Show at Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition’s 2021 Prints, Juror’s Choice at Delta National Small Prints Exhibition 2021, and Best of Show at the 58th Annual Greater Michigan Art Exhibition 2019, among others; and funding from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation (2021). Her work is kept in the permanent collections of the International Print Triennial Society, Krakow, Poland and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; and has been published in notable journals like Art in Print (2019) and Printmaking Today (2017). Legleitner received an MFA in printmaking from the University of Alberta (2023) and a BFA in Studio Art from Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan (2019).