S Emsaki is an interdisciplinary artist from Isfahan, Iran, who lives and works bicoastally in the United States. Emsaki’s practice ranges from video to printing processes, in-situ drawings, and archival interventions to address the material, historical, and ecological narratives of human and non-human petro-subjects. Emsaki is the 2024–25 recipient of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Residency at the International Studio & Curatorial Program and a recent alum of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York. They earned an MFA from Yale University and a BA from UC Berkeley, where they were selected for the Wendy Sussman Award and the Eisner Prize. Emsaki’s work has been exhibited and screened at Ashkal Alwan’s aashra, Beirut, LB; the San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries, CA; Provincetown Art Association and Museum, MA; Westbeth Gallery, NY; and Gallatin Galleries, New York University. They’ve attended fellowships and residencies at Yaddo, NY; the Fine Arts Work Center, MA; The Atlantic Center for the Arts, FL; the ICA, and the Paul Mellon Center in London, UK.