Emilie Louise Gossiaux

Emilie Louise Gossiaux (born 1989) is an American multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in New York City. They create drawings, ceramics, and installations.

Gossiaux's work engages with themes of interdependence and the entanglements of humans and animals, in conversation with the scholarship of Donna Haraway They have been recognized with numerous awards. In 2023, Gossiaux and Georgina Kleege held a public conversation on their work. Institutions where their work has been shown include the Whitney Museum, MoMA PS1, the Queens Museum, SculptureCenter, Kunsthall Trondheim, and the Museum Für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt.

Life Gossiaux was born in Metairie, Louisiana, near New Orleans, and raised in the nearby suburb of Terrytown. They became interested in art at a young age, but in high school they preferred printmaking and etching to drawing. which has been recognized for its storytelling and emotional impact. Gossiaux's description of being in a coma had an impact on Ira Glass. In 2016, during their recovery, they were profiled on the Today show.

Gossiaux went on to graduate from Cooper Union in 2014 with a BFA, and began attending graduate school at Yale University in 2017, where they graduated with an MFA in sculpture in 2019. In an Art in America interview, Gossiaux describes their drawings as "giving [London, their dog] a kind of agency, and in daily life, she gives me agency too." Since 2020, Gossiaux has not made any art depicting humans besides themself and their partner, Kirby. Gossiaux has described the imagery in their work as "mainly from touch memories, for example, the feeling of London's tongue on my hand, or the feeling of her claws on my foot".

Gossiaux was a recipient of the Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists at the Queens Museum for the 2022-2023 year.

In 2021, Gossiaux's sculpture piece Dancing with London (2021) was included in the exhibition Crip Time at the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt, Germany. That same year, they contributed several ceramic pieces to Finnegan Shannon’s exhibition "Don’t Mind if I Do" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland.

In 2026, Gossiaux was included in the Whitney Biennial.