Emily Weiskopf (b. Syracuse, New York) is an interdisciplinary artist, educator and researcher based in the Northeast. She received a BFA from the Hartford Art School(CT) and an MFA from the Tyler School of Art & Architecture (Philadelphia /Rome, Italy. Weiskopf’s work has been featured in Artnet, Gallerist NY, DNAinfo, the Contemporist, the Brooklyn Rail and exhibited with M.David&Co(NY); Spring Projects(NY); Shin Gallery(NY); Tiger Strikes Astroid; among others. In 2013, the NYC D.O.T commissioned Weiskopf’s first large scale public installation, Unparallel Way. Weiskopf was nominated for the Rome Prize in 2011, awarded the Robert Rauschenberg Award 2021, Walter Hodes Memorial Award, and numerous fellowships and residencies including the Artist Pension Trust(2013), Vermont Studio Center (2011/2021), the Wassiac Project (2012) the Atlantic Center for the Arts (2023), and ECOCA Keyhole Workspace (2024). She was among the 2021 ReClaim Award winners in Cologne, Germany, selected for Chico Photography Review (2022) and is currently developing a permanent public artwork with the City of Austin, Texas due to debut in 2025.
She has held Faculty positions at Fashion Institute of Technology (NY), Montseratt College of Art(MA), Texas State University(TX) and currently lectures at the Hartford Art School(CT). In 2014 she was in an 18-wheeler car accident that left her with life-altering injuries and permanent mobility and cognitive constrictions that paused her practice until the end of 2019, shifting the direction of her work exponentially. She is currently the Chair of the Curatorial committee at the Ely Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven CT.
