Emily Hermant
Associate Professor, Sculpture + Expanded Practices
- She/Her
- ehermant@ecuad.ca
Bio
Emily Hermant holds a BFA from Concordia University and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been featured in ArtSlant, Espace Sculpture and TimeOut Chicago. Emily has had residencies at the Burrard Arts Foundation, Haystack and the Ox-Bow School of Art. She has received grants from the B.C. Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Emily is represented by Monte Clark Gallery.
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Research Interests
At its core, Emily’s practice examines the materiality of communication. By tracing the afterlives of technological debris, she uncovers tactile ways of seeing and sensing the infrastructures that shape our world. She uses slowness as a methodology, contrasting the rapid flow of information with material forms that require sustained attention. Drawing extensively from textile traditions, Emily repurposes defunct transmission materials—telecommunications wire scrap, recycled data cables, and obsolete components—through labour-intensive hand-making processes.