Emily Coan is a painter and drawer inspired by the lineage of women as tale-tellers, particularly the weavers of myth and literature, Coan’s work examines the art of creating the tale itself. From the Moirai of Greek myth and Ovid’s tale of Philomena, to the German Spinnerinnen and the Brothers Grimm, the connection between weaving and the female voice in fairytale remains at the heart of her recent work. Considering herself “a storyteller painter” – she creates visual fairy tales that will, in her lifetime, build out an entire world.
Emily Coan (b. 1991, St. Petersburg, Florida) lives and works in Hudson Valley, New York. In 2024, Emily Coan presented her fourth solo exhibition in New York and her first with DIMIN titled “Spider Silk”, featured in Interview Magazine and the New York Times Style Magazine. In 2025, Coan is presenting work at the Ponds Society, Shanghai; and a solo exhibition at A Long Story Short, Paris. She was a resident at the Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy (2024), and has participated in group exhibitions at DIMIN, New York; Nino Mier, New York; Monya Rowe Gallery, New York; De Boer, Los Angeles; Gowen Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland; and Kutlesa, Goldau, Switzerland. Coan holds a BA from the University of Florida.