Emily Babette Gross

Emily Babette Gross is a Canadian-born interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Thematically her work explores belonging, psychoanalysis, queer subcultures, gender, internet personas, and concepts around “home.” Emily studied at California State University, Long Beach and graduated with my BFA in 2015. During those years she was interested in figurative drawing and painting, and the work she was making focused on the outward expression of musical and queer subcultures amongst her friends. In 2023, Emily attained her MFA in Studio Art from the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at University of California, Irvine. Her current work involves making dolls, video, music, and installation.

As part of an expanded studio practice, Emily Babette Gross’ work interweaves personal histories, concepts of home and belonging, queer and feminist theory, and psychoanalysis. Her creative practice is continually expanding, crossing the boundaries of many disciplines including, but not limited to, painting, performance, video, music, installation, sculpture. At the core of her artistic inquiry lies an engagement with traditional and non-traditional portraiture along with a pursuit on researching how the subjective concept of home affects the concept of our-selves.