Emily Weiner

Emily Weiner’s practice examines art historical imagery and repeated motifs which she reimagines through new perspectives, in particular investigated these symbols through a feminist and Jungian lens. Weiner seeks to investigate how reconfiguring these symbols can generate new understandings across generations and how imagery and its attached meaning can evolve.

Weiner received a BA from Barnard College, Columbia University before graduating with an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York. She has completed residencies at The Cooper Union, New York, as well as The Banff Center, Canada. In 2022 Weiner was the recipient of The Hopper Prize, as well as the Current Art Fund from the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts & Tri-Star Arts (2021). Her work has been exhibited in the United States, Italy, Norway, China, and Canada, and is held in the permanent collections of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia and Kunsthall Grenland, Porsgrunn, Norway. Weiner lives and works in Nashville.