About
Emily Roff is a Brooklyn, NY based artist with roots in Houston, TX. Primarily an oil painter, her practice focuses on portraiture and the intersections between perception, distortion, and control (or the lack thereof). She balances painting with her freelance design and illustration practice, ERD.
Available for commissions and inquiries:
︎ EmilyRoffArt@gmail.com
EDUCATION
Wesleyan University, BA 2014Studio Art, Painting concentration, Honors
EXHIBITIONS
2020Virtual Flat Files, Deanna Evans Projects, World Wide Web
2016
Endless Biennial 2016, New York, NY
STooPS, Brooklyn, NY
Walk Sounds, Figment Project, Governors Island, NY
2015
YOURSELF, Local Project, Long Island City, NY
Working Artists, Academic Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2014
Ego: Paintings, Zilkha Gallery, Middletown, CT
2010
PAINT, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
2009
Contents Under Pressure, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
High Art, O'Kane Gallery, Houston, TX
CATALOGUES
Ridgewood Zine, (2), January, 2021.Starry Night Projects, "Emily Roff," Artists To Look Out For Vol. II, December, 2015. 74.
AWARDS
Scholastic Art & Writing Award, National Gold Medal, Photography, Single Entry, 2010SPA Student Visual Art Contest, First Place, 2009