Silk scrunchies hand sewn from remnants from Emma’s paintings. A tiny painting! Edition of 23.

Emma Safir (b. 1990 NYC) Safir makes paintings that utilize fabric manipulation, lens–based media, smocking, rasterization, upholstery, and digitization. Her paintings function as screen simulations, proxies and portals. Safir is interested in hierarchies of labor in relation to gender and digitization, and in image making apparatus and distribution. Safir holds a BFA from RISD in Printmaking and an MFA from Yale in Painting & Printmaking. She has had solo exhibitions at Blade Study, Baxter St at CCNY, SHIN HAUS at Shin Gallery and Bunker Projects; and has participated in group shows at Galerie Nicolas Robert, RAINRAIN, Charles Moffett, Jack Barrett, Nazarian / Curio, Lyles & King, Hesse Flatow, among others. She has upcoming solo exhibitions with Hesse Flatow (2025) and Buffalo Institute for Art (2026). Safir lives and works in New York.