Emily Mast (born 1976, Cleveland, Ohio) is a Los Angeles–based visual and performing artist. Her video and performance work has been exhibited internationally and was included in the

Hammer Museum The Hammer Museum, which is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles, is an art museum and cultural center known for its artist-centric and progressive array of exhibitions and public programs. Founded in 1990 by the entrepreneur- ...

's "Made in LA" biennial in 2014. She has also performed live at

LACMA The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Page Museum). LACMA was founded in 1961 ...

Human Resources Human resources (HR) is the set of people who make up the workforce of an organization, business sector, industry, or economy. A narrower concept is human capital, the knowledge and skills which the individuals command. Similar terms include ' ...

, the Velaslavasay Panorama, Night Gallery, Public Fiction, and

REDCAT Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater (REDCAT) is an interdisciplinary contemporary arts center for innovative visual, performing and media arts in downtown Los Angeles, California, located inside the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex. Named for ...

. Many of Mast's pieces begin with an abstract text and she says of her work, "I'm someone who's always trying to squeeze things into their very essence." In 2013, she received a grant from the Harpo Foundation to develop a new series of performances. Mast was a contributor to the project

Exhibition 211 ''Exhibition 211'' (at the time referred to as simply Exhibition or 211) was an art exhibition that ran from March to August 2009 in New York City. It was initiated through a series of discussions between Warren Neidich and Mathieu Copelands in 2010 ...

in New York, 2009.

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*http://emilymast.com/ *http://lastagetimes.com/2012/07/experiments-inside-redcat%E2%80%99s-lab-now/ *http://www.simonesubal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/ItsOverThere_ArtNews.pdf *http://blogs.kcrw.com/whichwayla/2014/03/all-the-worlds-a-stage *http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/18/artists-named-for-hammer-museums-los-angeles-biennial/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0 Living people Performance art in Los Angeles American contemporary artists 1976 births {{US-artist-stub