SESSION 7 - August 10–16

Emma Safir is a New York City-based conceptual artist who has maintained a studio practice since 2012. Safir’s cross-media practice spans painting, photography, digital manipulation, textile techniques, and sculpture. She employs different modes of image generation—rubbings, analog film, digital photography, Photoshop, and embroidery—to explore the gendered labor of textiles and how it relates to the history of computing. These invisibilized formations of domestic and digital labor often share an undervalued status, which Safir seeks to address and mend through her work.

After graduating with a BFA from RISD in Printmaking, Safir continued her education by earning an MFA from the Yale School of Art in Painting & Printmaking, graduating in 2021. The artist has had solo exhibitions at Blade Study, Baxter St at CCNY, with upcoming solo shows at Hesse Flatow and Buffalo Institute for Art. She has also participated in group shows at Jack Barrett, Lyles & King, Hesse Flatow, among others. In 2024, Safir was awarded the Curatorial Spotlight at the NADA NY Art Fair and has been featured in The New York Times, ART News, Artsy.net, and whitewall.

Emma Safir, SEA PEARL (FLOWER GIRL), 2024, Digitally printed silk, upholstery foam, mdf, appliqué, house paint, needlelace, reflective thread, pewter, flashe paint, 28 x 48 x 1.5 inches