Emily Small works at the intersections of textiles, art history, and social formation. 

She has organized exhibitions and public programs at institutions including Climate Control|Being in life without wanting the world, (2023-ongoing), 500 Capp Street (2025), Olympia (2025), Espace Niemeyer in Paris (2024), Artists Space (2023), the e-flux screening room (2023), the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University (2022), and the Textile Arts Center (2021). She has exhibitied work in San Francisco, New York, Rhode Island, and Venice (Italy). Her writing has been published by KQED, Variable West, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the MODA Critical Review at Columbia University.

She is a former Curatorial Fellow with the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program (ISP) (2023) and a 2022 MODA Curates Fellow at Columbia University. In 2020 she completed a year-long residency at the Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn. She is a graduate of Columbia University (MA, art histroy and curatorial studies) and the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA, textile). 

Alongside her independent practice, Small serves as co-director of curatorial projects at Climate Control, and works in textile design and research with Levi Strauss & Co.


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