Emily Fussner
Emily Fussner is a multidisciplinary artist whose work highlights peripheral patterns in everyday spaces and explores questions of transience and presence, fragility and strength, perception and care.
Fussner has had solo exhibitions at Freight Gallery (Washington, DC, 2026), Arlington Arts Center (Arlington, VA, 2021), IA&A at Hillyer (Washington, DC, 2019), 1920 Gallery and Williams Gallery, Indiana Wesleyan University (Indiana, VA, 2019), and two-person shows at Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah University (Mechanicsburg, PA, 2026) and Cody Gallery, Marymount University (Arlington, VA, 2022). She created site-specific public art installations for Georgetown Glow (2021) and The Foggy Bottom Outdoor Sculpture Biennial (2018) and has participated in numerous group shows throughout the Washington, DC metro area and beyond. Fussner holds an MFA in Visual Arts from George Mason University (2019), and during that time was awarded a 2018-2019 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Graduate Fellowship, and a summer residency at GlogauAIR through American University’s MFA Studio Berlin in 2019. Enjoying a variety of arts-related work, she managed large-scale artist and collector events for Washington Project for the Arts for six years, occasionally teaches and curates, and regularly freelance designs publications and exhibition catalogs. After growing up in Indonesia, Indiana, and New Zealand, Emily now lives in Northern Virginia.
