Emilie Louise Gossiaux
Born 1989 in New Orleans, LA
Currently based in New York City
Contact
gossiaux.studio@gmail.com
Education
2019 MFA, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2014 BFA, The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Significant Otherness, Mother Gallery, New York, NY
2020 Memory of a Body, Curated by Emily Watlington, Mother Gallery, Beacon, NY
2018 After Image, False Flag Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Spaghetti Dinner, False Flag Gallery, New York, NY
2014 The Box, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Becoming Kin, The John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
2022 In Plain Sight, The Wellcome Collection, London, UK
2022 8th Contemporary Art Biennale, Organized by the Once Foundation, CentroCentroCibeles, Madrid, ESP
2022 Pure Joy, Curated by Chella Man, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY
2022 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2022 Crip*, Curated by Liza Sylvester, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
2021 Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York, NY
2021 Crip*, Curated by Liza Sylvester, Krannert Art Museum, Champagne, IL
2021 Crip Time, Curated by Susanne Pfeffer and Anna Sailer, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, DE
2021 Open Call, The Shed, New York, NY
2020 Total Disbelief, curated by Kyle Dancewicz, SculptureCenter, New York, NY
2019 The Intuitive Language of an Extended Hand, Julius Caesar Gallery, Chicago, IL
2019 But My Heart Was Awake, Golestani, Dusseldorf, GER
2019 Too Full To Cry, Shin Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Access+Ability, Cooper Hewitt, New York, NY
2017 Dis, Dedalus Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Unfixtures, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Interlochen, MI (with Nathan Abbe)
2015 Indigo Mind, StoreFrontLab, San Francisco, CA
2014 99¢ Plus, HANDJOB Gallery/Store, Brooklyn, NY
2013 In/finite Earth, The Smithsonian Institute’s S. Dillon Ripley Center, Washington, DC
2011 Curiouser, Curiouser, Recess Art, New York, NY
Collections
2021 Sketchbook 2020-2021, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, DE
2021 Dancing with London, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, DE
Grants, Fellowships, and Residencies
2022-2023 Queens Museum Jerome Fellowship for Emerging Artists, New York, NY
2022 BRIC Colene Brown Art Prize, New York, NY
2021 NYFA Barbara and Carl Zydney Grant for Artists with Disabilities, New York, NY
2021 Wave Hill Winter Workspace, New York, NY
2020 Commission for The Shed 2021 Open Call, New York, NY
2019 Commission from SculptureCenter 2020 In Practice, Open Call, New York, NY
2019 Wynn Newhouse Award, New York, NY
2018 Dumfries House Artist Residency, Royal Drawing School, Cumnock, Scotland
2016-2017 Artist and Disability Institute Fellowship Program, Art Beyond Sight, New York, NY
2014 Elliot Lash Memorial Prize, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
2013 Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Award of Excellence, Washington DC
Selected Talks and Events
2021 Artist Talk, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2021 CU@Lunch The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY
2021 Beyond Sight, Meet the Artist with Jesse Firestone, Wave Hill. New York, NY
2020 Total Disbelief Artist Talk, SculptureCenter, New York, NY
2019 Abilities / Inclusion Panel Discussion, Yale School of Art, New Haven, NY
Teaching and Workshops
2021 Guest Lecturer, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2021 In the Mind’s Eye: Online Non-Visual Learning and Accessibility Workshop with Stephanie Jeanjean, Center for Arts and Learning at Goldsmiths University, London, UK
2020 Tactile Art Club, Workshop Instructor, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver Denver, CO
2020 Art Beyond Sight Art History Guest Lecturer, The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY
2019, Queerness & Disability In Art, Guest Lecture, The New School, New York, NY
2016 Multi-sensory Art Workshop Instructor, New World School for the Arts, Miami, FL
2016 Multi-sensory Art Workshop Instructor, Interlochen Art Academy, Interlochen, MI
2015 Multi-sensory Art Workshop Instructor, Dreyfoos School of the Arts, West Palm Beach, FL
2015-2020, Museum Educator for Seeing Through Drawing and Picture This!, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Selected Bibliography
- Stadler, Bert, Emilie Louise Gossiaux, Working with a Dreaming Body, Institutional Model 22 January, 2023.
- Watlington, Emily, Emilie L. Gossiaux, Drawing Beyond Sight, Art In America, 12 October, 2022.
- Leland, Andrew, Ways of Not Seeing, Art in America, 6 October, 2022.
- Packard, Cassie, ArtSeen, The Brooklyn Rail, 1 June, 2022.
- Packard, Cassie, Your Concise New York Art Guide for May 2022, Hyperallergic, 1 May, 2022.
- David Zwirner Gallery, An artist’s profound relationship with her guide dog, Platform Art, November, 2021.
- Andrea K. Scott, Total Disbelief, The New Yorker, 2020
- Emily Watlington, Observing by Touch, Blind Artist Emilie L. Gossiaux Sculpts Tattoos and Dancing Dogs, Art in America, 2020
- Jillian Billard, Emilie Gossiaux’s ‘After Image’ at False Flag, Topical Cream, 2018.
- Cooper Hewitt, Access+Ability: BrainPort, Featuring Emilie Gossiaux (with Audio Description), Cooper Hewitt, 2017
- Jennifer Smith, Artist Refuses to Let Blindness Derail Her Career, Wall Street Journal, 2016
- Lumpkin, Daniel, An Artist: How Technology Helped Emilie Gossiaux Overcome Blindness to Rediscover Her Process, Paste Magazine, 2015.
- Radiolab, Seeing in Tongues, WNYC Studios, 2014.
- Cooper Union, Emilie Gossiaux, School of Art Senior Blinded in 2010, Wins National Art Award, Cooper Union School of Art News, 2013
- Claire Barliant, An Irrational Feeling, Paper Monument, 2011
- Radiolab, Finding Emilie, WNYC, 2011