no one leaves home unless

Emily Hass
May 8 – June 26, 2025

About This Exhibition

The Exiles series uses archival architectural plans of Berlin buildings occupied by Jews and persecuted artists of the 1930s to explore identity, place, and a culture’s loss, both of individual citizens and of a creative tradition.

“I began the series with my father’s childhood home,” says Hass. “My father was born in 1934; after the Nazis stripped his family of German citizenship and seized their business and properties, they fled Berlin for London in 1938. Exiles began as a reflection on a painful history, but with the rise of totalitarianism, persecution, and forced migration around the globe, that past is once again our present.”

The exhibition title, no one leaves home unless, comes from “Home” by the Somali-British poet Warsan Shire, which has become a rallying cry for those who work to help alleviate the suffering of today’s refugees.

About the Artist

Emily Hass holds graduate degrees in psychology and design from Harvard University and has had residencies at MacDowell, La Maison Dora Maar, and the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. She has been 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. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Jewish Museum Berlin. A monograph of Hass’ Exiles series was published in 2021. Hass divides her time between Peaks Island, Maine and New York City.