Emma Rose Schwartz

EMMA ROSE SCHWARTZ (b. 1992, Toronto, Canada) lives and works in New York. She received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2014) and an MFA from Columbia University (2019). Through a process of layering, erasing, and carving into un-stretched canvas, Schwartz builds paintings that hold both image and sediment, where the surface becomes a record of touch and revision. Her compositions often unfold in folkloric or suburban settings, drawn from memory, myth, and the architecture of her Nashville upbringing, where figures appear as recurring archetypes of the self. Her work examines how identity, inheritance, and fiction coalesce in the act of depiction.

Relevant exhibitions include Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York (2026); Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2026, solo); Derosia, New York (2025, solo); Brunette Coleman, London (2024, solo); In Lieu, Los Angeles (2023, solo); Annarumma Gallery, Naples (2022, solo); Chapter, New York (2021, solo); Margot Samel, New York (2024); Hesse Flatow, New York (2024); Paulina Caspari, Munich (2024); Thierry Goldberg, New York (2023); Christian Andersen, Copenhagen (2022); and In Lieu, Los Angeles (2022). She received the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Venice Award (2019) and was artist in residence at Xenia Creative Retreat (2025).