Emily Small is an artist based in San Francisco.
She is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Columbia University, and The Whitney Independent Study Program. Through textiles, exhibition making, and theater, the forms of her work primarily explore cycles of grief and optimism as they exist within political, structural, and social ecosystems.
She has co-organized exhibitions at Artists Space in New York, the e-flux screening room in Brooklyn, and the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University. In 2019 along with Elise Nichols, she mounted Dollhouse Philly, a community-curatorial project that took over a house in South Philadelphia. Her writing has been published by Variable West, the MODA Critical Review, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. From 2020-2021 she was an artist in residence at the Textiles Arts Center in Brooklyn. From 2023-2025 she served as director of Micki Meng. She is also a partner at Climate Control.
Wherever and whenever possible, everything is low-impact. All materials are reused, salvaged, and local. No new plastics.