Emily Small

Projects about myth making, movement, loss, and love. 

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

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Emily Small

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Education

2023    Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program
2022    Columbia University, New York, MA; Art history, critical and curatorial studies
2021    Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn, Artist in Residence
2018    Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island, Concentration; Art history, performance
2018    Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island, BFA; Textiles

Select Projects, Exhibitions, Publications, Programming

2024    Climate Control, Being in life without wanting the world, Fear, San Francisco, CA (partner)
2023-24  Garden of Eden, Climate Control, San Francisco, CA (contriubtor, writer)
2023    Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management, Artists Space, New York, NY (curator)
2023    Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management, Screening Series, E-flux Screening Room, Brooklyn, NY(curator)
2023    “Woven” in Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management, ed. Joshua Lubin-Levy, (New York: Whitney
                        Museum of American Art, 2023). (publication)
2023    Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (research assistant)
2022    A.K. Burns’ Negative Space: Prepositions of the Future, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, New York, NY (curator)
2022    Jack Halberstam, “Unworlding: An Aesthetics of Collapse” as part of A.K. Burns’ Negative
                    Space: Prepositions of the Future at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery,
                    Columbia University, New York, March 30, 2022 (programming)
2021   “The Afterlives of Costumes” Animated Ecologies, (NYU) New York, NY (guest lecturer)
2021    Considering Mass and Density, Textile Arts Center, New York, NY (artist, group exhibition)
2020    Interior Survivalist Theater, Philadelphia, PA (artist, programming)
2020    Dollhouse Philly, Philadelphia, PA (artist, organizer, group exhibition)
2018    Survivalist Theater, Providence, RI (artist, programming)
2015    Textiles Triennial Exhibition, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI (artist, group exhibition)