Emilie Louise Gossiaux (b. 1989 New Orleans, LA) is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. Gossiaux earned a BFA from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 2014, and an MFA from Yale School of Art in 2019.
As a visual artist who is also blind, Emilie brings their inner worlds into the physical realm through drawings, ceramics, and sculptural installations. Creating works based on dreams, memories, and their sense of touch, Gossiaux explores themes relating to interdependence, Disability, and interspecies kinship that centers on the decade long relationship with their Guide Dog and animal companion, London.
Gossiaux’s solo shows include Dogs Who Run in Dreams at David Peter Francis Gallery (2025); Votives at CASTLE Gallery (2025); Kinship at Kunsthall Trondheim (2024); Nature from Bed at Wave Hill House (2024); Other-Worlding at the Queens Museum (2023); Significant Otherness at Mother Gallery NYC (2022); Memory of a Body at Mother Gallery Beacon (2020); and After Image at False Flag Gallery (2018).
They have participated in group shows at institutions both domestic and abroad including Busan MoCA (Busan, KOR, 2025); Kunstverein Hannover (Hannover, DEU, 2024); MoCa Cleveland (Cleveland, OH, 2023); The John Michael Kohler Art Center (Sheboygan, WI, 2023); the Wellcome Collection (London, GBR, 2022); The Aldrich Museum (Ridgefield, CT, 2022); MoMA PS 1 (New York, NY 2021); Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt (Frankfurt, DEU, 2021); The Krannert Art Museum (Champagne, IL, 2021); The Shed (New York, NY, 2021); SculptureCenter (New York, NY, 2020); and The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum (New York, NY, 2018), among others.
Gossiaux has been awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship (2024), the Ida Applebroog Grant (2024), the Pébéo Production Prize (2023), the Queens Museum Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists (2022-2023), the Colene Brown Art Prize (2022), a NYFA Barbara and Carl Zydney Grant (2021), the Wynn Newhouse Award (2019), and the John F. Kennedy Center’s VSA Prize (2013).
Their work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, FT Magazine, The New Yorker, Art in America, The Paris Review, The Brooklyn Rail, ArtReview, Hyperallergic, Artnet, Metal Magazine, and Topical Cream Magazine.