Emma Laramie is an art historian and writer based in Brooklyn, NY with a focus on modern and contemporary art. Her writing centers around the intersection of art and spirituality, the social function of art, arts accessibility, and the art market, among other topics. Her time working in for-profit institutions has led her to question the structures that uphold the current art ecosystem, and how it can instead nurture younger talent and attract audiences without art history degrees. Likewise, her longstanding passion for astrology sparked an interest in how spirituality is understood in contemporary art.

Emma received her BA in Art History from Pace University and her MA in Modern and Contemporary Art from Christie’s Education. She has gone on to hold roles in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Department at Christie’s, Luxembourg & Dayan Gallery (now Luxembourg + Co.), Mnuchin Gallery, and Skarstedt Gallery, where she is currently Head of Research.

She has worked on several acclaimed exhibitions such as Chantal Joffe: My dearest dust (2024), In Dialogue with Picasso (2023), Francis Bacon (2022), Mary Lovelace O’Neal: Chasing Down the Image (2020), and Church & Rothko: Sublime (2020), in addition to working on catalogs for some of the most noteworthy auctions of the past decade, including Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi and David Hockney’s Portrait of an Artist (Pool With Two Figures).