Amze Emmons is an Associate Professor who joined The College of New Jersey in 2012. He is a multi-disciplinary artist with a background in drawing and printmaking. His studio practice is built on systems of research that draw connections between human migration, community, mobility, transience and the over-arching politics of architecture. In making, He works at the point where drawing and the mechanical language of print intersect. The images and installations he creates have a sense of magical/minimal realism that is inspired by architectural illustration, comic books, vintage cartoons, information graphics, news footage, consumer packaging, instructional manuals and cinematic space/time.

He has held numerous solo and group exhibitions at venues, including, Kesting/Ray, New York, Space 1026, Philadelphia; OHT Gallery, Boston; and Works on Paper Gallery, Philadelphia, EFA Project Space and the International Print Center, New York, the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington; the Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines; Wendy Cooper Gallery, Chicago, and The Print Center, Philadelphia. Emmons has received many awards including a Fellowship in the Arts from the Independence Foundation; an Individual Creative Artist Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Arts Council; and a Fellowship at the MacDowell Colony. Emmons is also a co-founder and regular contributor of the popular art blog, Printeresting.org; which received a 2011 Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. 

Emmons received a BFA from Ohio Wesleyan University and a MA and MFA from the University of Iowa. He has taught at the University of Vermont, University of Iowa, and Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania.