16 Facts About Emma Sulkowicz

Emma Sulkowicz was born on October 3,1992 and is an American political activist and performance artist.

Emma Sulkowicz is the child of Sandra Leong and Kerry Emma Sulkowicz, who are both psychiatrists in Manhattan.

Emma Sulkowicz attended the Dalton School on the Upper East Side, where they were an A student and competitive fencer.

In May 2014, Emma Sulkowicz filed a report against Nungesser with the New York Police Department.

Emma Sulkowicz declined to pursue criminal charges further, saying that NYPD officers were dismissive and had mistreated Emma Sulkowicz.

Emma Sulkowicz subsequently focused their senior thesis on a work of performance art entitled Mattress Performance.

The performance and their allegations received considerable media attention, with Emma Sulkowicz becoming known as "Mattress Girl".

Emma Sulkowicz created Mattress Performance in the summer of 2014 as a senior thesis while at Yale University Summer School of Art and Music.

Emma Sulkowicz's first effort was a video of themself dismantling a bed, accompanied by the audio of them filing the police report, which they had recorded on a cellphone.

From February to March 2016 at Coagula Curatorial in Los Angeles, Emma Sulkowicz exhibited a piece, Self-Portrait.

Emmatron plays prerecorded answers to several questions Sulkowicz has been repeatedly asked, which they will no longer respond to.

In 2017, Emma Sulkowicz performed a bondage performance piece titled The Ship Is Sinking.

Emma Sulkowicz portrayed being able to express the pain they felt and endured, putting themself physically within the artwork.

On January 30,2018, Emma Sulkowicz was documented protesting at two New York City museums and a subway station.

Emma Sulkowicz wore black lingerie, with home-made pasties made of tape, and covered their body with drawn-on asterisks.

The relationship of the ropes and the orbs is the metaphor for the love and support Emma Sulkowicz received from loved ones and the community.