Kristen Joy Emack is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, and a Massachusetts Cultural Arts Fellow. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally in both galleries and photo festivals. She has been published in several magazines, including Vogue Italia, OATH, and The Sun. She has been a guest speaker at multiple universities, including Harvard, Hofstra, and the University of Cincinnati, and interviewed on several podcasts, including The Candid Frame and SHADE, in the UK.
Kristen is primarily a self-taught photographer and also works as a public school educator who lives and works in Cambridge,MA. Her work is in multiple private collections here and abroad. Kristen is represented by Gallery Kayafas in SOWA Boston.