Emily Oliveira is an interdisciplinary artist who uses textiles, video, installation, and performance to explore the relationship between craft, labor, and queer futurity. Her work overflows with the promise and precariousness of a future just out of reach. These works are portals, veils, thin membranes between our word and the world as it might be. They challenge capitalist constraints on the abundant human imagination, and frame labor as a tool to access the divine. She draws upon imagery from science fiction, Mexican muralism, prehispanic textiles, and psychedelia.  

Oliveira has exhibited and performed widely in venues, including Vox Populi, Wave Hill, The Java Project, Disclaimer Gallery, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Paradice Palase, SOHO20, Judson Memorial Church, and Ars Nova. She has received awards and residencies from the Museum of Arts and Design, AIR Gallery, Yaddo, BRIC, and Ars Nova. She was a 2019 NYCT Van Lier Fellow at Wave Hill, and will be the Abbey Awards Fellow at the British School at Rome in 2023. She has an upcoming solo show at BRIC in January 2021. Oliveira is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, and is currently an MFA candidate at Yale University.