Emily Roysdon

American | 1977

Emily Roysdon is an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1977. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Hammer Museum have featured Emily Roysdon's work in the past.

Emily Roysdon in the news

Emily Roysdon has been featured in articles for ArtDaily, caa.reviews and ARTnews. The most recent article is “List Projects 33: Every Ocean Hughes” at Bakalar Gallery presented by MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge written for MOUSSE Magazine in November 2025.

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Untitled (David Wojnarowicz project) - Emily Roysdon

Untitled (David Wojnarowicz project) , 2001

By Emily Roysdon

Past Exhibitions

On the Passage of a Few People through a Rather Brief Period of Time

UCI Art Gallery

Irvine | California | USA

Jan 20, 2024 - Apr 07, 2024

Witch Hunt

Hammer Museum

Westwood | Los Angeles | California | USA

Oct 10, 2021 - Jan 09, 2022

Groundhog Day

SIC

Helsinki | Finland

Dec 09, 2017 - Jan 21, 2018

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Articles

“List Projects 33: Every Ocean Hughes” at Bakalar Gallery presented by MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge

MOUSSE Magazine Nov 07, 2025

This focused exhibition features the poignant video installation One Big Bag (2021), by artist and writer Every Ocean Hughes, formerly known as Emily Roysdon.

Hammer Museum and ICA LA present 'Witch Hunt'

ArtDaily Oct 12, 2021

The Hammer Museum at UCLA and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles present Witch Hunt, an incisive international survey of 16 critically acclaimed artists.

Otherwise: Imagining Queer Feminist Art Histories

caa.reviews Jul 31, 2020

Why is queer feminism not an established subdiscipline in art history or a more influential politic in curating, art criticism, or visual theory?

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Coverage

“ ..Subsequently, Roysdon collaborated with performance artist MPA to produce a site-specific performance from which she developed a photographic installation and a video diptych... ”
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Art in General

“ ..Throughout her practice, Emily Roysdon’s multidisciplinary approach to art making has incorporated photography, printmaking, performance, and an extensive history of collaboration... ”
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Art in General

“ ..Approaching the site itself, Roysdon conceived of the square as both a panopticon and an abstraction, provoking questions about planned use and the representation of ‘free movement’... ”
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Art in General

“ ..Roysdon’s interdisciplinary practice spans photography, performance, video, printmaking, costume design, text, song writing, and curating... ”
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Higher Pictures

“ ..Roysdon’s photograms are an exercise in abstraction as she composes and discomposes with an inescapable, joyful element of chance in the process... ”
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Higher Pictures