Emily Elisa Halpern

I maintain a studio in an artist colony in Los Angeles, California. Much of my recent work reflects on contemporary society and the political upheaval currently featured on the news. My interpretations are combined with my unconscious and become self-portraits of sorts- of a dark and quirky inner life. No one meaning predominates, only states of ambiguity, where strong undercurrents of emotion combine with murky, dream-like scenes of danger and destruction and contribute to a disjointed sense of unease in an unpredictable world.

MFA San Diego State University, 2012

BFA Pratt University, Brooklyn, NY 2008

Associates in Applied Science, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, 2002

BA Criminology, Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada,1994

Halpern's work has been shown throughout the United States in exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago and Vancouver. She is in private collections in North America, Europe and Shang-hai.