Emmy Mikelson

contact: ekmikelson@gmail.com




Night Vision series 2022 - present



Emmy Mikelson is an interdisciplinary artist, arts administrator, and educator. She was raised in Iowa and lives in New York City, where she received her MFA from Hunter College, CUNY.  She also holds an MA in Industrial/Organizational Psychology at the CUNY School for Professional Studies. Her research is focused on errors in cognitive reasoning, such as the misrepresentation of chance and the inability to perceive randomness.  These common errors in judgement render us stuck and inflexible -- not unlike a deer frozen in the headlights.  

Her artwork investigates the strangeness embedded in familiar environments, revealing speculative worlds within our own.  Through references to microbial landscapes and dense forest ecosystems, her artwork and studies in psychology support an exploration of the unseen and unexpected in both environmental contexts and human interactions. 
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