Emily Rose is an interdisciplinary multimedia artist. Themes of home, identity, and memory are central in her paintings, drawings, sculptures, and installations. Surrounded by her family’s oral stories, a blend of cultures, food, celebrations, and spiritual beliefs, Emily Rose infuses these narratives using found objects, textiles, dreams, and memory into her work. In the retelling of these stories and memories, the artist borrows some of the original elements while changing other parts, straddling between reality, make-believe, and nostalgia.
Currently working on her three-part memory installation series, Homecoming (name subject to change), Emily Rose was awarded numerous art residencies to complete her projects, including Mass MoCA, Kala Art Institute and ACTivate residency at the Boston Center for the Arts. Group exhibitions of her work includes: Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Elevated Thought, ShowUp Inc. (formerly Beacon Gallery), Essex Art Center, Stevens-Coolidge House and Garden, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, The Dodge House Gallery, Mary Castelnovo Gallery, Copley Society of Art, The Umbrella Arts Center, Scollay Square Gallery, The Urbano Project, and the Boston Arts Academy. Publications of her work can be found in CENTRO’s RicanWritings, Raandoom, Boston Art Review, and Artscope.
Among her accomplishments, Emily Rose was awarded the Wagner Impact Studio Award, Massachusetts Cultural Council Grants for Creative Individuals, Boston Media Arts Empowerment Award, Edward Mitchell Bannister National Exhibition: Celebrating BIPOC Artists, and the Copley Society of Art National Show: Crossing Borders Grant.