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# Emma Sulkowicz

(1992)   Performance Artist

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Emma Sulkowicz is a performance artist.

## Quick Facts About Emma Sulkowicz

Born October 3, 1992

Profession Performance Artist

## About Emma Sulkowicz

American performance artist and activist... \| Emma Sulkowicz is an American political activist and performance artist. While a college student, Sulkowicz developed a national reputation with the performance artwork Mattress Performance (2014–2015). In 2019, she said she had stopped making art and began a master's program in traditional Chinese

##  Quotes by Emma Sulkowicz

> [There's a reason survivors choose not to go to the police, and that's because they're treated as the criminals. The rapists are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-sulkowicz/there-s-a-reason-survivors-choose-not-to-go-to-the-police-and-that-s/)

Emma Sulkowicz

[Civil disobedience](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/civil-disobedience/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efc/emma-sulkowicz-83320_civil-disobedience_there-s-a-reason-survivors-choose-not-to_395603.jpg)

> [Sexual assault is neither a ‘light’ nor ‘fluffy’ matter, and we cannot treat it as if it were.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-sulkowicz/sexual-assault-is-neither-a-light-nor-fluffy-matter-and-we-cannot/)

Emma Sulkowicz

[Assault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/assault/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e88/emma-sulkowicz-83320_assault_sexual-assault-is-neither-a-light-nor-fl_572416.jpg)

> [For me, I was raped in my own dorm bed. Since then, it has basically become fraught for me, and I feel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-sulkowicz/for-me-i-was-raped-in-my-own-dorm-bed-since-then-it-has-basically/)

Emma Sulkowicz

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c5/emma-sulkowicz-83320_bed_for-me-i-was-raped-in-my-own-dorm-bed-si_809576.jpg)

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