S Emsaki is an interdisciplinary artist from Isfahan, Iran, currently living and working in New York City. Emsaki’s practice spans collage, printmaking, in-situ drawing, video, and archival intervention, examining petro-subjects, extraction, and material histories. She 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. Emsaki is a recent alum of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and holds an MFA from Yale University and a BA from UC Berkeley, where she received the Wendy Sussman Award and the Eisner Prize. Her 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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