Emily Hass was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and lives and works in New York City. In 2019 she was a Howard Foundation Fellow and has been awarded the McCloy Fellowship in Art and grants from the Jerome Foundation, the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Hass is a MacDowell Fellow and has received residencies at La Maison Dora Maar and the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. Selections from her series Altonaer Straße were included in the 2011 Heimatkunde exhibition at the Jewish Museum Berlin and are now part of the museum’s permanent collection. Her work has been reviewed in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and featured in WallpaperThe New York Times, The New York Review of BooksDer TagesspiegelThe Berlin JournalDesign Observer and on NPR’s Berlin Stories. Hass holds graduate degrees in psychology and design from Harvard University.