. . . to delight in the mire.

fragment of Heraclitus, sixth century BCE

Emile Mausner (b. 1990) is an artist and writer based in Orlando, Florida. She received her MFA in 2019 from Yale School of Art, where she was awarded the Carol Schlosberg Memorial Prize for Excellence in Painting. Mausner studied painting at the University of Central Florida (BFA 2017) and critical humanities at New College of Florida (BA 2012). Her work has been featured in Burnaway, Burrow Press, Booooooom, Strangeways, and Superstars Only Magazine. She has exhibited in California, Louisiana, Florida, Illinois, Connecticut, and New York.

WRITING
✳︎ “Inexhaustible of Mystery: An Interview with Jacob Todd Broussard.” Cornelia Magazine, no. 9, May 2022.
✳︎ “Degenerate Utopia: Disney and Disenchantment in Central Florida.” Burnaway, States of Leisure, May 2020. Also published in Laws of Salvage: Burnaway Reader, Atlanta, GA, 2020, pp. 90–101.
✳︎ “Reflections on the Body of Whom.” Body of Work: Yale School of Art 2019, edited by Edi Dai, Willis Kingery, and David Knowles. New Haven, CT, Yale School of Art, 2020, pp. 127–29.
✳︎ “You Are About to Begin Reading”: Accessibility and Postmodernist Performance in Works by Italo Calvino, Christian Jankowski, and Francis Alÿs. Sarasota, FL, New College Division of Humanities, 2012.

EXHIBITIONS
2021 Fantasy II in Exile at Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA
✳︎✳︎✳︎ Fantasy II in Exile reviewed by Veronica Cross for Burnaway
2020 Praying on the Name at Kingfish Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2019 Touch at Moisturizer Gallery, Gainesville, FL
2019 Yale Painting & Printmaking at New Release Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Again, Always: Act One at Green Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2018 Words Cannot Express at Green Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2018 XL Catlin Art Prize, San Francisco Art Institute, Linda Warren Projects Chicago, & New York Academy of Art
2017 You Can Get In & Not Do Anything at Green Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2017 Mirror Phase at University of Central Florida Art Gallery, Orlando, FL
2017 Perennials at University of Central Florida Art Gallery, Orlando, FL
2017 A Memory Wingding at City Arts Factory, Orlando, FL
2016 Florida Noir at University of Central Florida Art Gallery, Orlando, FL
2016 Today for Tomorrow: Art and Climate Change at Orlando Science Center, Fusion Gallery, Orlando, FL
2016 S.T.E.A.M. at University of Central Florida Art Gallery, Orlando, FL

Please send all inquiries to emile.mausner@gmail.com.

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