Emily Somoskey is a 2-D mixed media artist and painter from Northeast Ohio. She pursued a BA in Art Education/Painting at The University of Akron in Akron, OH (2013) and her MFA at Michigan State University, in East Lansing, MI (2020), where she also earned  a certification in college teaching.

Emily’s mixed-media paintings use representational and abstract methods to explore the ways we simultaneously experience physical and mental space. On a material level, her work is largely built through layering paint and various forms of photographic imagery.  These disparate mediums collectively create a complex and nuanced language that weave together moments of clarity and ambiguity. Through her work she references the shifting and overlapping nature of our experience with the sensate and psychological realms; giving form to the complexity, instability, and enigmatic nature of our lived experiences.

Her work has been exhibited throughout the US at galleries including Site: Brooklyn in Brooklyn, NY, the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences, in Long Beach Island, NJ,  as well as regionally throughout the Midwest at ARC Gallery in Chicago, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, MI, and the Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum in East Lansing, MI. In addition, Emily’s work has been featured in a variety of publications including ctrl+v journal and Studio Break podcast.