Emily Legleitner is a Detroit area 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.
Legleitner’s work has shown in group and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally, winning notable awards and grant funding. Her work is included in the permanent collections of Arkansas State University (Jonesboro, AR), International Print Triennial Society (Krakow, Poland) and National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taichung, Taiwan); and published in Art in Print (2019) and Printmaking Today (2017). Legleitner has a 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). Beyond her art practice, Legleitner is an educator and curator.