Emmy Esquerre is a South Florida born and raised artist currently residing in Atlanta GA. In 2022, she received her B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Southern California where she took a hand-building ceramic class on a whim in her senior year. She has been making ceramic sculptures professionally since 2023 and her work has been shown in multiple exhibitions in Atlanta. She was awarded the MINT Leap Year Residency in 2024 and the Hambidge Artist Residency in 2025. In August of 2025, Emmy completed her first solo exhibition, "Hairhood: The Strands that Connect Us."

Emmy uses clay to explore the infinite beauty of Black hair and features through shape, structure, and texture. By hand-building natural material-stoneware clay, she aims to recreate and exaggerate the ornamental forms of Black hairstyles across the diaspora. Through an afro-futurist aesthetic and structurally intricate forms, Emmy’s work plays with the limits of what Black hair can do visually and culturally.