EMILIE ODEILE

Selected Public Art & Installations

Space Cowboy — Ten-foot fiber sculpture fusing cowboy culture with aerospace fantasy through scale and motion.
Stampede — Site-specific suspended fiber installation using barbed wire and fishing line to evoke the material and social polarities present in the contemporary rural West.
Goodnight Moon: A Fiber Tale — 500-sq-ft immersive textile environment that revisits childhood memory—familiar, vivid, and always just out of reach.
FROG: A Fiber Situation — 13-ft knitted sculpture exploring frogging—the act of unraveling and starting over—as release, reinvention, and the courage to begin again.
Tom Mix Wept — Fiber sculpture examining the tension between grit and vulnerability within Western myth.

Selected Exhibitions & Presentations

2026
Goodnight Moon: A Fiber Tale — PACE Center, Parker, CO (solo, touring)
Space Cowboy — Colorado Creative Industries Conference, Trinidad, CO (solo, touring)
Space Cowboy — Public installation, Ignacio, CO (solo, touring)
Contemporary Fiber — PACE Center, Parker, CO

2025
Goodnight Moon: A Fiber Tale — Dairy Arts Center, Boulder, CO (solo, touring)
Stampede — A.R. Mitchell Museum of Western Art, Trinidad, CO (long-term installation)
Icons for a New West — Gallery 1261, Denver, CO

2024
Latitude 37 — Arvada Center, Arvada, CO
Badass Women of the West — Gallery 1261, Denver, CO
Resonance ’24 — A.R. Mitchell Museum of Western Art, Trinidad, CO

2023
Goodnight Moon: A Fiber Tale — Space to Create, Trinidad, CO (solo, touring)
Resonance ’23 — A.R. Mitchell Museum of Western Art, Trinidad, CO

2022
FROG: A Fiber Situation — Space to Create, Trinidad, CO (solo)
True West — BRDG Project, Denver, CO
Rural Art Show — The Garage, Branson, CO
First Friday Art Walk — VFW Post 1 Gallery, Denver, CO

2014
Vogue Knitting Live — Los Angeles, CA

Awards, Grants & Honors

NEA Grant — FROG
Fiber Art Now Grant — Stampede
Arts in Society Grant — Goodnight Moon: A Fiber Tale
Startup Colorado — Artist-in-Residence
Certificate of Recognition — City of Los Angeles

Scale & Technical Practice (Selected)

Line-based fabrication using yarn, string, wire, and industrial materials such as fishing line and barbed wire
Structural textile construction ranging from garments to large-scale installations
Pattern development and iterative problem-solving for complex forms
Integration of soft fiber materials with rigid armatures and spatial supports

Publications

Arm Knitting: 30 No-Needle Projects for You and Your Home — Penguin Books, contributing artist
Sheep & Emilie — Picture book by Maria Loewenstein, illustrated by Amir Roumie, inspired by Emilie Odeile’s fiber work
The World According to Wonder — Commissioned crocheted Pee-Wee Herman doll

Press & Media (Selected) — Fiber & Installation (2022–present)

Rocky Mountain PBS
Westword
Fiber Art Now
Colorado Public Radio
Knit Nation
Fiber Talk Podcast
Arvada Center — Artist Feature Video
Fox 21 News
Boettcher Foundation
Tenet Podcast

Press & Media (Selected) — Fashion & Wearables (2008–2015)

Italian Vogue
Elle
Lucky
RackedLA
Daily Candy
Fuego Magazine
CDSavoia — Short Film featuring Emilie Odeile

Professional Background

Co-Founder & Lead Artist — Dundee & Lee (2022–present), Colorado
Large-scale fiber installations and public art.

Founder & Designer — ARTSTRING (2010–2015), Hollywood, CA
Custom knitwear shown on runways in New York, Paris, and Los Angeles.
Commercial clients include Target, Walmart, Axe, AT&T, Verizon, Weight Watchers, Pinnacle Vodka, Cinnabon, Infiniti, Converse, Old Navy, Sonic Drive-In, Wonderful Pistachios, Lenovo, TRESemmé, RadioShack, Citizens Bank, CDW.
Selected commissions include Wish I Was Here, RENT, Cinnamon Girl, Dust.

Selected Work with MarcoMarco (2008–2013), Hollywood, CA
Black Eyed Peas, The E.N.D. World Tour; RuPaul’s Drag Race; American Idol; music videos and runway shows.

Professional Service & Talks

Juror — Contemporary Fiber Art Exhibition, PACE Center, Parker, CO (2026)
Artist Talk — Goodnight Moon: A Fiber Tale, Parker Arts / Schoolhouse Theater, Parker, CO (2026)