Emily Roysdon (1977) is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist and writer. Her work is invested in language, memory, collectivity and the processes of history and she uses video, photography, text, and performance to that aim. She is editor and co-founder of the queer feminist journal and artist collective, LTTR. Roysdon's work has been shown at the Power Plant (Toronto); Participant, Inc. (NY); Generali Foundation (Vienna); Studio Voltaire (London); and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. Her videos have been screened at Whitechapel Gallery (London); De Appel (Amsterdamn); The Kitchen (NY); and at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. Her writings have been published in numerous books and magazines, including Cabinet Magazine, the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, and Women & Performance: a Journal of Feminist Theory. Roysdon completed the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 2001 and an Interdisciplinary MFA at UCLA in 2006. For six months in 2008 she was a resident at the International Artists Studio Program in Sweden (IASPIS). She is a recipient of a 2008-9 Art Matters grant. |