Emily Ludwig Shaffer
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Liquidity
4/10
How easily works can be bought and sold at auction
Institutional
4/10
Museum collections, biennials, and institutional recognition
Momentum
7/10
Recent price trends, gallery moves, and market buzz
Discovery
0/10
Undervaluation opportunity relative to peer artists
Risk
4/10
Investment risk factors — higher means more volatile
Market Position
- Pricing
- Note
- Auction prices reflect smaller-to-mid scale acrylic-on-canvas and works on paper (Arches); record set by a 2018 canvas.
- Primary Market
- Gallery-controlled / 'Request Price & Availability' on Ocula via Peres Projects and Anat Ebgi; no public primary list prices. Contact Galerie PACT (Paris), Peres Projects, or Anat Ebgi for current pricing.
- Historical Auction Range
- 2022-2024: ~$9,500 - $40,320
- Current 2025 Auction Range
- approx. $4,500 - $34,000 (hammer+premium) for paintings at Phillips in 2025
- Liquidity
- Limited depth — roughly 6-8 lifetime auction lots, ~3-4 lots in 2025. Phillips is effectively the sole secondary venue. Single-house concentration constrains liquidity.
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- Collector Base
- Contemporary collectors of emerging feminist/figurative-surrealist painting; works held in private collections such as the Thomas-Suwall Collection (exhibited at Plains Art Museum, 2024).
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- Auction History
- Sell Through
- Strong recent sell-through (3 of 3 in 2025 per partial database; ~75% overall).
- Market Trajectory
- Secondary market remains thin but is concentrated and active at Phillips. Notably, all three 2025 Phillips lots sold and exceeded their high estimates, a reversal from the September 2024 below-estimate result — signaling renewed collector demand and upward momentum.
- Recent Sales 2024
Title Year Date Venue Estimate Hammer Price New Fence Finials 2021 September 25, 2024 Phillips New York $10,000-15,000 $9,525 New Fence Finials 2021 September 25, 2024 Phillips New Now New York $10,000-15,000 $9,525 - Recent Sales 2025
Title Date Venue Estimate Outcome Sold for GBP Sold for USD Approx Hiding Away April 10, 2025 Phillips, New Now London GBP 15,000-20,000 sold, exceeded high estimate 26670 33871 Just Before Spring June 18, 2025 Phillips, Modern & Contemporary Online New York sold, exceeded high estimate — 24130 Caryatid Denied II June 24, 2025 Phillips, Modern & Contemporary Online London GBP 1,500-2,500 sold, exceeded high estimate 3556 4516 - Sell Through Meta
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- Geographic Markets
- US (New York) and UK (London) auction presence; European/Asian exposure via gallery network.
- Auction Record High
- 40320
- Auction Record Details
- 'Bay Leaf Wrapped Night' (2018), sold $40,320 at Phillips New Now New York, Sept 28, 2022 (estimate $5,000-7,000) — record remains the high as of mid-2025.
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- Market Position
- Discovery-tier emerging painter; price points and clientele comparable to peers in Phillips 'New Now' day/online sales (e.g., Sophie Larrimore, Nikki Maloof cohort).
- Investment Outlook
- Positive near-term momentum: 2025 auction results consistently beat estimates, two active galleries plus a new 2026 gallery relationship (Future Gallery, Berlin). Risk: very thin, single-house secondary market and no confirmed permanent museum holdings cap liquidity and institutional validation.
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Institutional Presence
- Exhibitions
- Significant Group
Title Year Venue Audit(s) (forthcoming) 2026 Galerie PACT, Paris Weak Signal (forthcoming) 2026 Dio Horia, Athens Full Disclosure: Selections from the Thomas-Suwall Collection 2024 Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND The New, New 2023 Peres Projects, Seoul In Response: The Arcades 2017 The Jewish Museum, New York art fair 2018 NADA Miami (Galerie PACT booth) - Solo and Two Person
Title Year Venue Two-person with Amalie Jakobsen (forthcoming) 2026 Future Gallery, Berlin The Fosse Way 2025 Galerie PACT, Paris Five Ways to See 2024 Peres Projects, Milan Mary in Heaven and Joan in Bordeaux 2023 Galerie PACT, Paris In Stead of Me 2022 Peres Projects, Berlin An Island Refrain 2021 Dio Horia, Mykonos with Françoise Grossen 2021 L'Inconnue, New York Wall-to-Wall 2020 Galerie PACT, Paris From the Ha-Ha Wall Comes The No-No Dance 2019 Institute 193, Lexington, KY Stone Tapestry 2018 Galerie PACT, Paris - Significant Group Meta
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- Publications
- Case Studyo released a sculptural multiple 'Boxed Body Thought' (2022); JRP/Next collaborative print edition with Galerie PACT. No monograph/catalogue raisonné identified.
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- Museum Collections
- Status
- No confirmed permanent museum acquisitions identified as of May 2026.
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- Curatorial Attention
- Group exhibitions at established institutions
- Private Collection Visibility
- Included in 'Full Disclosure: Selections from the Thomas-Suwall Collection', Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND (2024) — a museum exhibition of a private collection, indicating institutional-adjacent visibility but not a permanent acquisition.
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- Awards and Recognition
- No major prizes/fellowships identified. Editorial recognition includes Artsy's 2017 '12 Artists in Summer Group Shows Who Deserve Solo Shows'.
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Career & Biography
- Career
- Personal Milestones
- Became a mother in 2021; Peres Projects notes this directly reshaped her recent work, leading her to 'rediscover the world through the eyes and physical experiences of a child' (Five Ways to See, 2024).
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- Identity
- Name
- Emily Ludwig Shaffer
- Note
- Galerie PACT confirms b. 1988 San Francisco, lives and works in New York; Peres Projects and the artist's CV corroborate identity.
- Gender
- Female
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- Birth Year
- 1988
- Birthplace
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Key Themes
- Female statues, domestic spaces, gardens, architectural forms, feminist perspective on space
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- Nationality
- American
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- Current Location
- Brooklyn / New York, USA
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- Artistic Practice
- Surrealist paintings exploring gender, domestic space, architecture
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- Education
Institution Year Degree Rhode Island School of Design 2010 BFA Painting Columbia University 2017 MFA Visual Arts - Career Meta
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- Artistic Context
- de Chirico-style spatial metaphysics, classical statuary, proto-feminist writing (Christine de Pizan); flattened architectural perspective and contemporary feminist surrealism.
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Artistic Profile
- Style
- Hard-edge acrylic painting of flattened, surreal domestic and garden architectures populated by anonymous stone-colored female figures (caryatids/statues); muted cool palettes with strategic saturated accents.
- Evolution
- 2025
- The Fosse Way (Galerie PACT) — landscape/place-based conceptual framing.
- 2018 2020
- Stone Tapestry series — established stone-figure and architectural vocabulary.
- 2021 2022
- Motherhood (2021) expands domestic themes; mural-based dissolution of pictorial vs. physical space (In Stead of Me).
- 2023 2024
- Five Ways to See — sensory/'five senses' exploration, more graphic and colorful, dollhouse-like structures, childhood/embodied perception.
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- Visual Language
- Medium to large format (typically 30-72 inches) Muted, cool tones with strategic color accents Architectural precision with surreal spatial logic
- Themes and Subjects
- How women occupy concrete and symbolic space; domesticity, gardens, fences/walls, architecture, the body and the five senses, motherhood, and hierarchies within art history.
- Movements and Periods
- Contemporary feminist surrealism; metaphysical/de Chirico spatial lineage; post-minimalist domestic-space exploration.
- Techniques and Mediums
- Acrylic on canvas and on Arches paper; precise architectural rendering, flat colourwashes, hard edges; occasional site-specific murals and a sculptural multiple ('Boxed Body Thought', Case Studyo 2022).
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Critical Reception
- Critical Reception
- Anchor Review
- Date
- December 2022 (online) + print Issue 233
- Title
- Emily Ludwig Shaffer Dissolves the Domicile
- Critic
- Eliza Levinson
- Summary
- Praised her site-specific murals and exclusively female stone figures for a 'liberating redefinition of place' that grows past the stereotypically feminine.
- Publication
- Frieze
- Major Reviews
Title Date Critic Publication Emily Ludwig Shaffer Dissolves the Domicile December 2022 Eliza Levinson Frieze — June 2021 Madeleine Seidel The Brooklyn Rail Visiting the Secret Gardens of Emily Ludwig Shaffer May 2021 — Elephant Magazine - Discourse Themes
- Gender, domestic space, architecture, the senses, motherhood, contemporary surrealism.
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- Critical Trajectory
- Growing attention from major art publications
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- Recent Exhibitions Covered
- Year
- 2025
- Coverage
- Listed/featured in French art press (Meer).
- Exhibition
- The Fosse Way, Galerie PACT, Paris
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- Publications and Media
- Frieze, Brooklyn Rail, Elephant, Juxtapoz, Hypebeast, Numéro, Metal Magazine, Kaltblut, Artsy ('12 Artists Who Deserve Solo Shows', 2017), Maff.TV artist spotlight. Coverage skews toward art-press features/interviews rather than scholarly/academic writing.
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Gallery & Representation
- Fair Presence
- Art Brussels and NADA Miami via Galerie PACT; Sunday Art Fair London.
- Representation
- Primary
Gallery Relationship Start Tier Galerie PACT 2018 Tier 2 (established Paris gallery) Peres Projects 2022 Emerging Tier 1 / strong Tier 2 - Secondary
Location Locations Note Gallery — Los Angeles (Mid-Wilshire), New York (Tribeca) Works available via Anat Ebgi (e.g., 'Shaded Parts I', 2021) and group inclusion ('Good Company Pt. 2', 2022); a museum-caliber program gallery — represents a meaningful US gallery touchpoint. Anat Ebgi Berlin — Forthcoming 2026 two-person exhibition with Amalie Jakobsen — new gallery relationship. Future Gallery — Mykonos, Athens Solo 2021; forthcoming 2026 group 'Weak Signal' (Athens). Dio Horia New York / Montréal — Two-person with Françoise Grossen, 2021. L'Inconnue - Gallery Tier
- Strong Tier 2 with international reach and one emerging Tier 1 (Peres Projects); growing US presence via Anat Ebgi.
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- Secondary Galleries
Year Location Exhibition Gallery 2021 Mykonos An Island Refrain Dio Horia 2021 New York Two-person with Françoise Grossen L'Inconnue
- Geographic Reach
- International — France, Germany, Italy, South Korea, Greece, and USA (NY/LA).
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