Cook’s practice merges artistry with agricultural allegory, tracing rural America’s uneasy passage through industrialization. Balancing precision with emotive storytelling, she reflects a landscape shaped by both personal memory and the pressures of progress.

Her structured compositions echo agricultural systems while revealing an underlying tension in humanity’s control over nature. As technology distances us from food production, machines replace labor, the “acre eater” supplanting the mule, the city overtaking the farm. Her warped, stretched fields resist traditional landscape, layering fragments of memory into a quiet, deliberate disarray.

Emma cc Cook (b. 1989, Minneapolis, MN, USA) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Recent solo and two person exhibitions include Bucolic cob, Public, London (2025); Caterpillar, Outer space, Concord (2024); Acre Eaters, Anonymous Gallery, New York (2024); Manners, Hayseed, 1226, Dallas (2024); Dibbler stick, Adams & Ollman, Portland (2023); Pilgrim, Public Gallery, London (2022); Flags, Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles (2022); Peeping Tom, Et Al, San Francisco (2022); and Milkman Pigeon, Half Gallery, New York (2021). She has participated in group exhibitions at Sixi Museum, Nanjing; Et al, San Francisco; Almine Rech, Brussels; Harpers, New York; 1226, Los Angeles; Adams & Ollman, Portland and Public Gallery, London. Select residencies include New York School of the Arts at Vytacil and Campos de Gutierrez in Medellin, Colombia. Cook received the MSAB grant, the Carter Prize in Painting and the Gay M. Grossman Memorial Scholarship.