Emily Barker (artist)
Emily Barker (born 1992) is an American multidisciplinary artist and activist based in Los Angeles. Their work focuses on topics related to disability, discrimination, and capitalism. Biography 
Emily Barker was born in 1992 in San Diego, California, and grew up in the state of Georgia. Barker uses the pronouns they/them. They studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Barker is a wheelchair user and chronically ill, she had an accident and was diagnosed as paraplegia at age 19 and with complex regional pain syndrome at age 20. In addition to making art, Barker has worked as a fashion model. Barker's work examines and challenges ableism embedded into contemporary society. In 2020, Murmurs, an art space in Los Angeles, California, presented Barker's first solo show titled Built to Scale. Barker participated in the 2022 Whitney Biennial titled "Quiet as It's Kept" curated by Adrienne Edwards and David Breslin. Her work in the 2022 Whitney Biennial was the only work explicitly about the topic of disability. References

External links 
 The Creative Independent - On accessibility - Emily Barker interview - 2020
 Artillery Mag - A Conversation with Emily Barker - 2021

1992 births
Living people
American contemporary artists
21st-century American artists
21st-century American women artists
American disability rights activists
School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni
American artists with disabilities
American activists with disabilities
Wheelchair users