Dustin Emory’s paintings are meditations on isolation, memory, and the recursive patterns that shape our lives. In grayscale interiors, figures inhabit spaces that hover between reality and dream, their presence simultaneously intimate and estranged. Emory works under strict formal limits—repeated figures, fixed clothing, a disciplined palette—transforming constraint into invention, producing scenes that oscillate between psychological precision and illogical suspense. His compositions evoke cinematic noir, devotional imagery, and the charged stillness of domestic interiors, capturing moments where vulnerability, longing, and inherited social cycles converge. These are spaces where the personal meets the systemic, where grief, desire, and agency are both revealed and withheld.

Dustin Emory (b. 1999, Atlanta, Georgia) lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. Recent solo exhibitions include Mourning Sun, Margot Samel, New York, NY (2025); Mourning Sun, Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY (2025); Days Before Remembering, Primary, Miami, FL (2023); Limbo, Long Story Short, Paris, France (2023); and Light Source, Ojiri Gallery, London, England (2022). Group exhibitions include Blank Space, Primary, Miami, FL (2024); Not Invited, Ojiri Gallery, London, England (2024); 4 artists, Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY (2024); Double Take, LVH Art, London, England (2024); OMGWTF, Primary, Miami, FL (2023) Summer Mix Vol.1, Tuesday to Friday, Valencia, Spain (2023) Sizzlin Summer, Gr Gallery, New York, NY Double Trouble, Long Story Short, Paris, France (2022); Equilibrium, FreeMarket, Atlanta, GA (2021); Paper Trail, ABV Gallery, Atlanta, GA, (2020); One by One, ABV Gallery, Atlanta, GA (2020); and 20 Somethings, DK Gallery, Marietta, GA (2020). Emory’s works are in the public collections of High Museum, Atlanta, GA; X Museum, Beijing, China; and MAP, Miami, FL.


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