Emily Endo

Emily Endo (1984) works across sculpture, scent, and installation, pursuing a research-driven practice grounded in material experimentation and sensory experience.

Their work sits at the intersection of science and mysticism. Through sculptural forms and systems, Endo investigates how bodies, environments, and materials evolve and co-constitute one another. Bringing together visual, chemical, and physical processes, they create layered material compositions in which elements complement and contrast, producing objects and installations that blur the boundaries between living and nonliving, real and imagined. Through these exchanges, they consider interdependence across biological, geological, and cultural scales, foregrounding circulation, accumulation, and temporal change as generative forces.

Glass serves as both a conceptual anchor and a primary medium. For Endo, it embodies preservation, erosion, and accretion – a material capable of holding time while remaining perpetually in flux. Within their work, scent operates as an invisible counterpart to form. Drawing on perfume’s connections to chemistry and botany, they create aromatic works from plant extracts and fragrance molecules that evoke spaces, materials, textures, volumes, and atmospheres. These ephemeral compositions activate memory and perception, inviting intimate, multisensory encounters that unfold over time.

Endo holds an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art (2010) and a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art (2006). Their work has been exhibited at Somerset House; Massey Klein; John Michael Kohler Art Center; Marta, Harkawik, and Neutra VDL House; LVL3; and Bullseye Projects. Recent press includes Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, The New York Times Style Magazine, Wallpaper, and Architectural Digest. Endo lives and works in Joshua Tree, United States.

The residency is supported by the Alexander tutsek-stiftung.

Photos by: Margeaux Walter,  Erik Benjamins and  John Michael Kohler Art Center