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Emilie Louise Gossiaux

New York, New York

Fingers and Tongue is a ceramic sculpture of a dog’s snout with its long pink tongue licking the fingers of a hand.

Fingers and Tongue

2023

Londons Dancing with Flowers is a drawing of 3 blonde Labrador Retrievers skipping upright on their hind legs. In each of their raised left hands, they hold onto colorful ribbons that stretches up and off of the top of the page. There are pink, peach, and deep red flowers scattered across the paper around the dogs.

Londons Dancing with Flowers

2023

Whitecane Maypole Dance is an indoor art installation with sculptures of 3 bipedal, human-sized white dogs walking on top of a circular pedestal. Each dog holds onto a colorful ribbon that is attached to the top of a tall whitecane Maypole. There are tree and celestial motifs on the walls in the background, and colorful paper flowers scattered across the central pedestal.

Whitecane Maypole Dance

2023

In a gallery with several works in frames and in vitrines, True Love will Find You in the End is a lifesize sculpture of two standing figures holding hands and looking towards each other, one with the head of a person and the body of a dog, and the other with the head of a dog and the body of a person.

True Love will Find You in the End

2021

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About Emilie Louise Gossiaux

In this photo, Emilie Louise Gossiaux has a beatific smile on her face as she stands in front of her installation at the Queens Museum where paper-mache leaves are affixed to the wall to suggest a tree. Emilie is a petite woman of European and Indonesian descent. She has long dark brown hair, light tan skin, and blue eyes, and is wearing a fuzzy black sweater and black pants with her hands clasped in front of her body.

Born in New Orleans, LA, in 1989, Emilie Louise Gossiaux is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. Gossiaux earned her BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art in 2014, and her MFA in Sculpture from Yale School of Art in 2019. Her solo shows include Other-Worlding at the Queens Museum (2023); Significant Otherness at Mother Gallery Tribeca (2022); Memory of a Body at Mother Gallery Beacon (2020); and After Image at False Flag Gallery (2018). She has shown her work internationally at Tangled Art + Disability, MoCa Cleveland, The John Michael Kohler Art Center, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, The Wellcome Collection, The Aldrich Contemporary, MoMA PS 1, The Krannert Art Museum, The Shed, and SculptureCenter, among others. Gossiaux was awarded the Wynn Newhouse Award, a NYFA Barbara and Carl Zydney Grant, the Colene Brown Art Prize, the 2022-2023 Queens Museum–Jerome Foundation Fellowship Program for Emerging Artists, The Pébéo Production Prize, and The Ida Applebroog Grant. Her work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, FT Magazine, Artnet, ArtReview, Metal Magazine, the Paris Review, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, The New Yorker, Art in America, and Topical Cream Magazine.

Program Participation

Joan Mitchell Fellowship, 2024

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“ In my practice as a multidisciplinary artist who is also blind, the work that has fulfilled me the most has been translating my inner worlds into the physical realm through drawings, ceramics, and sculptural installations. Currently, my work explores themes of interdependence, Disability joy, and the intersectionality between the experiences of disabled people and non-human species, centering on the decade-long relationship I’ve had with my Guide Dog.”