Emmett Moore is a Miami-based artist and designer whose interdisciplinary practice moves fluidly between art, design, and architecture. His work examines the shifting relationship between the built and natural environments, using functionality as both a structural premise and a conceptual provocation.
Working with the forms of everyday objects, Moore explores the universality and endurance of the utilitarian, reframing the familiar through shifts in material, color, and context. His material language often draws from secondhand goods, repurposed construction components, and found refuse, strategically employed to collapse traditional hierarchies between the refined and the commonplace. Within this framework, functional objects become vessels for broader cultural, and ecological narratives, ultimately transcending their intended purpose to occupy an elevated role.
His work has been shown institutionally at the RISD Museum, the Frost Art Museum, the Miami Art Museum, the Bass Museum of Art, and is in the permanent collection of the Perez Art Museum Miami. He was the first Miami-based designer to exhibit a solo exhibition at Design Miami. Moore’s work has been covered by Art in America, The Guardian, The Miami Herald, Cultured Magazine, Architectural Digest, Artsy and The Art Newspaper among others. Moore was named the Miami New Times’ Best Visual Artist in 2015 and 2021.