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Ema Harris-Sintamarian (San Jose) is an artist originally from Romania whose work is informed by the relationship of her identity to her sense of displacement, and the ways she has devised to reconcile these incongruous elements. Her intricate yet expansive drawings tackle the dichotomy between containment and liberation by infusing a static diagram with a charge that propels it into motion.  Ema is represented by Jack Fischer Gallery in San Francisco, and her work have shown in solo and group shows at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, Niklas Belenius Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden, Triton Museum, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, Swarm Gallery, Oakland-to enumerate just a few. She was the recipient of the 2013 Eureka Fellowship/ Fleishhacker Foundation, the 2010 Silicon Valley Arts Council Award the 2008 ArtShift Award and has participated in residency programs at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Vermont Studio Center and San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art.  She received an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Delaware (2002), and an MFA in Painting from San Jose Sate University (2005).