Emily Weiskopf (b. Syracuse, New York) creates a multifaceted body of work that shifts across mediums that include sculpture, ceramics, drawing, and photography. She received a BFA from the Hartford Art School(CT) and an MFA from the Tyler School of Art(PA) /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); David Hall Fine Art (MA); Shin Gallery(NY); Tiger Strikes Astroid; among others including Deanne Evans Projects Flatfile (2022). In 2013, the NYC D.O.T commissioned Weiskopf’s first large scale public installation, Unparallel Way, which debuted in conjunction with the debut exhibition of Brooklyn Utopias.
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), ECOCA Keyhole Workspace(2024), Jentel (WY) 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 2024.
She has held Lecturing positions at Fashion Institute of Technology (NY), Monseratt College of Art(MA) and Texas State University(TX). 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 and shifted the direction of her work exponentially. Weiskopf currently lives and works in the Northeast and teaches at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts.
