S Emsaki is a process-based interdisciplinary artist from Isfahan, Iran, currently living and working bicoastally in the United States. Their practice spans video, printmaking, in-situ drawing, and archival intervention, tracing the temporal and material residues of erasure and domination—and their entanglement with human and nonhuman petro-subjects. Emsaki is a 2025–26 Studio Residency Program artist at Smack Mellon and the 2024–25 recipient of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Residency at the International Studio & Curatorial Program in Brooklyn, NY. They are a recent alum of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and hold an MFA from Yale University and a BA from UC Berkeley, where they received the Wendy Sussman Award and the Eisner Prize. Their work has been exhibited and screened at venues including Smack Mellon, NY; Ashkal Alwan’s aashra Programming in Beirut, Lebanon; the San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries, CA; Provincetown Art Association and Museum, MA; Westbeth Gallery, NY; and Gallatin Galleries at NYU. Emsaki has participated in residencies and fellowships at Yaddo, NY; the Fine Arts Work Center, MA; Atlantic Center for the Arts, FL; the Institute of Contemporary Art; and the Paul Mellon Centre in London, UK. In 2025, they received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.
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