Emily Weiskopf (b. Syracuse, New York) is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and curator. Her work explores themes of phenomenology, spirituality, and healing in relation to the body and landscape while blending philosophical and psychological inquiry with material investigation. These works incorporate futuristic and ancient techniques to connect linages of time creating space for transcendent connections to higher consciousness and unknown phenomena.
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); White Columns (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), Jentel WY (2024) and Albee Foundation NY (2026). 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 2026.
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 has been the Chair of the Curatorial Committee at the Ely Center for Contemporary Art since 2024 and currently lives/works in New Haven CT with her 3 rescue dogs, Bunny, Banana and Bear.
