Korina Emmerich presents Material Lineages at The MET
Film by David Tiger-Cortes
Image by Argenis Apolinario
Current work
Material Lineages 2027-2028
Material Lineages marks Emmerich’s transition from fashion designer to multidisciplinary artist, born from the wreckage of personal upheaval, and an industry that demands more than it gives. The saved scraps from a decade of past collections became a reflection of Emmerich’s own fractured reality. Rooted in Indigenous values of no waste, the project refuses fashion’s relentless cycle of production, extraction, consumption and disposability. Reclaiming the freedom to make art without the pressure to sell, scale, or produce endlessly. A practice of memory, survival, and reinvention by piecing together what remains to build something entirely new.
Supported by the Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grant
Exhibitions
McCord Stewart Museum, Sovereign Stitches, 2026-2027
The Textile Museum of Canada, Always in Fashion, 2026-2027
The MoMA Creativity Lab, Weaving Together, 2025
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Dress Up, 2024
MoMA PS1, The Revolution is a School, 2022
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, In America: A Lexicon of Fashion, 2021-2022
EMME Studio
2015-2026
About
Korina Emmerich is a New York–based Indigenous artist, designer, and cultural organizer of Puyallup descent whose multidisciplinary practice explores fashion, art, environmental justice, and Indigenous futurism. She is the founder of EMME Studio and Co-Founder and Executive Director of Relative Arts NYC and Indigenous New York Fashion Week (INYFW), platforms dedicated to advancing Indigenous creativity and cultural sovereignty. She also serves as Materials and Exhibitions Steward with Catalyst Dance, expanding her practice through costume design, performance, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Her work has been exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, MoMA PS1, the Denver Art Museum, MFA Boston, and internationally. A recipient of the 2026 Pratt Fashion Visionary Award and an Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grant, Emmerich's evolving practice moves beyond traditional fashion into experimental textiles, sculpture, and installation, challenging systems of production while exploring material memory, regeneration, and creative sovereignty.
