Emily Small

Emily received a Bachelors of Fine Arts from The Rhode Island School of Design and a Masters of Arts in Modern and Contemporary Art History, Critical and Curatorial Studies from Columbia University. Between 2022 and 2023 she was a Helena Rubinstein Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program (ISP). 

Recent projects have taken place at Artists Space in New York, Textiles Art Center in Brooklyn, and the Wallach Art Gallery, in New York. Most recently she has written contributions for Climate Control in San Francisco; Performa Biennial in New York; Margot Samel Gallery in New York; and The MODA Critical Review in New York, where she also served as editor-in-chief. 

Emily (she/her) is currently based in San Francisco, California.

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Climate Control: Garden of Eden

Being in life without wanting the world / Climate Control / Fear Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Included in, The Garden of Eden, an approximately one-year project at Climate Control in San Francisco, I am writing with the works on view, having an ongoing conversation in time and space with the project and its artists.
2023-24


Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management 
Artist Space, New York

Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management challenges the dominant modern conception of time as objective, divisible, and linear. Situating the global imposition of this naturalized temporal order alongside the advent of Western capitalist modernity and the implementation of standardized clock time, the exhibition explores how time is represented, lived, and contested in the catastrophic present

Kobby Adi, Julieta Aranda, Julieta Aranda & Anton Vidokle, Yto Barrada, Black Quantum Futurism, Helen Cammock, Maria Chávez, Kajsa Dahlberg, Kevin Jerome Everson, Brendan Fernandes, ektor garcia, Hicham Gardaf, Gerard & Kelly, Simon Gush, Sky Hopinka, Clare Hu, Samson Kambalu, Karrabing Film Collective, Victor Masayesva, Jr., Rosalind Nashashibi, Katie Paterson, Dario Robleto, Finnegan Shannon, and Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor
2023


Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management, Catalog 

Designed by Jonathan Gorman with The Whitney Museum of American Art.  
2023




Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management, film program at E-flux 

Image: Rosalind Nashashibi, Denim Sky (2022)
2023



A.K. Burns’ Prepositions of the Future

This exhibition worked with artifacts from artist A.K. Burns’ ten year epic Negative Space to link a re-articulation of a politics of representation to the ongoing contemporary environmental crisis.

Accompanying the exhibition was a speaker series which featured a presentation with A.K. Burns, as well as a talk by historian and theorist Jack Halberstam. A short publication on A.K. Burns’ work was published by Columbia University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and The Wallach Art Gallery.
2022