Emily Furr

Emily Furr(b. 1978, St. Louis, MO) is a New York based visual artist who received her MFA from Hunter College, NY in 2018. Furr has had four solo exhibitions at Sargent’s Daughters. In 2019, she was an artist in residence at the Watermill Center(Watermill, NY). She has exhibited at 12.26 (Dallas, TX; Los Angeles, CA); Rebecca Camacho Presents (San Francisco, CA); Maria Bernheim Gallery (Zurich, Switzerland); Achenbach Hagemeier (Berlin, Germany); Galerie Hussenot (Paris, France); Office Baroque (Antwerp, Belgium); as well as being featured on the cover of New American Paintings’ 25th Anniversary Edition. In February of 2021, Furr opened her first museum solo exhibition at the SCAD Museum (Savannah, GA), curated by Ariella Wolens, assistant curator of SCAD exhibitions. Furr’s work is in the permanent collection of the Orange County Museum of Art (Costa Mesa, CA) and the Denver Art Museum (Denver, CO). Her work has been reviewed in Artnet, Artforum, Hyperallergic, Burnaway, The New York Times, Time Out New York, amongst others. In September 2022, Furr presented a solo booth of new work at The Armory Show (New York) coinciding with her solo presentation Metal Heart at Sargent’s Daughters, which was reviewed by The New York Times. She is represented bySargent’s Daughters.