Iñupiaq artist Susan Ringstad Emery features
contemporary native artwork including woodcarvings, paintings and digital artwork.
Descended from Iñupiaq and Scandinavian hunters, fisherman,
ship builders, carvers and artists.
Susan currently resides in Tucson, Arizona where she teaches beginning woodcarving and art.
Arizona Biennial Artist 2024-2025
Susan’s artwork has been exhibited at Grand Central Terminal
NYC, Tucson Museum of Art (Oct 19, 2024-Feb 9, 2025), Peabody Essex Museum, Alaska Native Heritage Center, Alaska Native Arts
Foundation, Seattle Municipal Tower, National Nordic Museum and corporate and private collections
around the world, including Dena'ina Wellness Center Kodiak, corporate boardrooms
at Bering Straits Native Corporation and the Native Village of Eklutna. Her work is in the permanent collection at
the Nordic Museum, Seattle. Seattle Ethnic Heritage Artist
Roster, Public Art Roster at Seattle’s Office of Arts and Culture
2018 graduate of Seattle Office of Arts and Culture Public
Art Boot Camp. Studied Indigenous woodcarving with Master Carver Stephen Madison, Tulalip. Associates of Fine Arts, Studio Art, Everett, Washington
Susan is an enrolled tribal member of Native Village of
Shishmaref (Alaska)
