Sara Emsaki

OPEN TO PUBLIC | Sara Emsaki (b. 1989) is a painter and printmaker who lives and works between the United States and Iran. Her work “interrogates the multiple roles and codes individuals embody at the intersection of contrasting religious, cultural and aesthetic traditions.” Emaski is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and an MFA candidate in Painting and Printmaking at the Yale School of Art. At Berkeley, Emsaki was a recipient of the Eisner Prize—the highest achievement in the creative arts—and the Wendy Sussman Prize in painting. Group exhibitions include SOMArts Cultural Center and Root Division in San Francisco, and Sola Art Gallery in Los Angeles.