Frieze London 2025
Emma Rose Schwartz
15–19 October 2025
For Frieze London, Emma Rose Schwartz reimagines a domestic scene, centred around rituals of sleeping and waking. We see paired figures, caught in between these states of consciousness, intertwined with their surrounding furniture. Schwartz views these transition cycles as a form of revival, a temporary end that leads to another beginning. Sleep mimics death, while waking is its return.
These twin bodies, Schwartz notes, are ‘fractals’ of herself – merged with various imagery sourced from art history, pop culture, literature, cartoons and family photographs. Celestial and awkward, their limbs are multiplied and interwoven in paint and pencil. Often mirroring one another, Schwartz is interested in the doubleness of the self, past and future, and the possibility for multiple realities to exist within one frame.
Emma Rose Schwartz (b. 1992, Toronto, Canada) lives and works in New York. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014 and her MFA from Columbia University in 2019. Recent exhibitions include: The Missing Link in Modern Spiritualism, Derosia, New York (2025), Old Mortality, Brunette Coleman, London (2024), Thank You, I'm Rested Now..., Margot Samel, New York (2024), Ditto, Hesse Flatow, New York (2024), I Would Not Think To Touch The Sky With Two Arms, Paulina Caspari, Munich (2024), Naked Name, Derosia, New York (2024), who's who, In Lieu, Los Angeles (2023), True Alchemy, Thierry Goldberg, New York (2023), The Same Room, Shoot the Lobster, New York (2023), only joking, Annarumma Gallery, Naples (2022), Fiction or Fictions, Christian Andersen, Copenhagen (2022), A Somewhat Thin Line, In Lieu, Los Angeles (2022), see you in the funny papers, Chapter, New York (2021). In 2019 she received the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Venice Award and was the artist-in-residence at Xenia Creative Retreat in 2025.
