Emily Weiskopf (b. Syracuse, New York) is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and researcher based in Connecticut. Her work explores themes of trauma, spirituality, and healing in relation to the body and landscape. She blends philosophical and psychological inquiry with material investigation, incorporating both futuristic and ancient techniques. Her telepathic and intuitive abilities, which she has had since adolescence, along with her experiences supporting others—and herself—through disaster, pain, and disability, deeply inform her practice. Weiskopf often uses resin to create 3D transparent paintings that function simultaneously as objects, viewfinders, portals to other worlds, and sources of light. These works mediate between interior and exterior realms, creating space for transcendent connections to higher consciousness and unknown phenomena where the future is not solely defined by its past. A pathway of consciousness leads through the material to the spiritual where she can aid others who are processing trauma.
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.
