Ema Ri
Ema Ri is a queer identified, Cuban-American, Miami-based artist. They earned their Bachelor in Fine Art at New World School of the Arts (2017) and were a finalist for the CINTAS Fellowship the following year. Their work has been exhibited in the following group shows: Cifo Gallery – Unbound (2017), Mindy Solomon Gallery – Make It Nice Again (2017), The Fountainhead – Everyday is Summer (2018), Spinello Projects – FREE! (2018), Dimensions Variable – Ouroboros (2020), and Spinello Projects – TIME-SENSITIVE (2020), Locust Project – A landscape longed for: the garden as disturbance, (2021) and had their first debut at Spinello Projects – Undercurrent (2021), and was awarded a Wavemaker Grant for research and development (2021) Oolite Arts – Lean – to (2022)
Artist Statement
“A sense of homelessness and exile have been profoundly impactful forces in my life. Naturally, they are woven deeply into the fabric of my artistic practice. I’m a second-generation Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist. I am also queer, though my queerness is less a function of my sexuality than it is a question of exile. Exile from the boundaries of the Normal, the Moral, even the Real. I am the child of first-generation Cuban migrants. I am brown. I live with physical and learning disabilities. Though vital, none of these things wholly encapsulate me. I am more than the total sum of my categories. But they’re nevertheless significant, even central, to who I am, and subsequently, to my artistic practice.”
Program
- 2022 Studio Resident
- 2022 Home + Away
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