Emily Barker is a Los Angeles-based, multidisciplinary artist whose practice emerges from the firsthand experience of navigating multiple severe illnesses and disabilities. The youngest recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2025, they attended Skowhegan residency the previous year in a manual wheelchair with limited mobility due to the large gravel surfaces.

Barker has shown internationally, including solo at Sentiment in Zurich, and Carlye Packer and Murmurs in Los Angeles. Other notable group exhibitions include the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2022 Biennial and Crip Time at Frankfurt’s Museum of Modern Art, alongside artists such as Mike Kelley, Isa Genzken, and Cady Noland. Barker has presented talks at institutions such as MIT, NYU, the Royal College of Art, UCLA, among others, and their work is held in the permanent collections of the MMK and the Akron Art Museum.