Panels, Talks
2025 upcoming RightsCon 2025 Lighting Talk “Don’t delete art: why content moderation must account for artistic context”
2024 Restrictions on the Risqué: Censorship & Sexual Freedom in 2024, panel, Woodhull Freedom Foundation
2024 THE PANOPTICON EFFECT: A DISCUSSION ON ARTISTIC SELF-CENSORSHIP , workshop in collaboration with Liza Shkirando and BONFIRE
2024 Artists’ and Researcher Talk: The Body Room, Goldsmiths University, London, May 30
2024 Don’t Delete Art: Is Social Media Beyond Our Control? Panel, Dangerous Art, Endangered Artists series presented by Artists At Risk Connection and Art At A Time Like This at the Independent Art Fair
2024 Máster en Mercado Int. de Arte Contemporáneo, Valencia, Spain, Speaker, April 27
2024 Mujeres An Las Artes Visuales, Special Juror, Premio L’libre Artistica Jeronima Giles II
2024. Decentraland Wellness Week, Keynote Panel “Healthier Relationships with Social Media & Online Platforms,” January 24
2023 Woodhull Freedom Foundation, “We Removed Your Post!” , October 24
2023 RightsCon, “Artists Have Digital Rights, Too” workshop with NCAC and EFF, June 6
2023 London Drawing Group “Art Censorship: The Call Is Coming From Inside The House" April 17
2023 Arts Letters and Numbers, Artist Censorship in the Digital World, March 6
2022 Bonfire Artist Residency, Visiting Critic
2022 World Ethical Data Forum 2022, Speaker “Block Mute Report”
2022 Unit London, Navigating Sensitive Content, Panel, London, UK, Sept 20
2022 Washington and Lee University Law School, “Gender and the Law” Guest Lecturer
2021 London Drawing Group, “Who’s Afraid of the Female Nipple?”, Lecturer, London, UK, May 31
2021 London Drawing Group, “Censored Bodies Talk Back”, Panel Moderator, London, UK, June 3
2021 Artists Talk On Art, Artist Talk 53, New York, NY
2021 Agora Digital Art, “Cuerpas: Memory and Identity at the Border of Digital and Physical Art”, Artist Talk, London, UK
2021 The Edward Hopper House, “Model as Storyteller”, Guest Speaker, Nyack, NY
2020 Casa Cabanyal, “A Discussion on Censorship and the Female Body”, Lecturer, Valencia, Spain
2017 Washington and Lee University, Visiting Critic and Lecturer, Lexington, VA
2016 Southern Virginia University, Visiting Critic and Lecturer, Buena Vista, VA
Selected Interviews/Features
2025 Women United podcast
2025 Art Versus the Algorithm, podcast
2024 Electronic Frontier Foundation, Speaking Freely: Interview with Emma Shapiro, March
2024 El Periodico, Catalunya, “20 años después del 'pezongate', las tetas de las mujeres siguen siendo tabú,” Feb 3
2023 Women As/In Art, podcast episode 18
2023 WPANYC Instagram Takeover, Aug 21-23
2023 Hyperallergic, In NYC Protest, Activists Tell Meta to Stop Deleting Art, June 16
2023 Universal Masculino, Featured Interview, June 3
2023 The Art Newspaper, The Week In Art podcast, March 24
2023 Levante, “Mujer, Artista, Y Activista por el Cuerpo Feminino,” March 20
2022 Featured Artist/Activist, Feminist Zine commissioned by WeTransfer
2022 Télam Argentina, “Cuerpos desnudos y activismos Lgbtq+: las redes sociales avanzan con la censura del arte,” Dec 4
2021 Women Photographers History, IG Live Interview, Sept 30
2021 A Punt Media news broadcast, Feature Interview, Sept 14 (begin 44:23)
2021 FreeMuse.org, “Interview with American Visual Artist Emma Shapiro”, “Reclaiming The Space” Campaign, Aug 25
2021 The Valencian, “The Power of Pink”, June 30
2021 Adieu La Censure, Coeur Et Art, June
2021 Agora Digital Art, "A Woman Self-Defined" , March 26
2021 Art Plugged, "The Body Room Examines the Expectations of the Female Anatomy", Verity Babbs, March 11
2021 Creme Guides, Esther Harrison, “Body Positivity? Frauen(-Körper) in der Kunst und Medien”, Esther Harrison, March 3
2021 Micol Hebron, "Other Nipple Artists to Know and Love"
2020 The Rebirth Circle Podcast, "Censorship of the Female Body" Steph Rempel, October 28
2020 Happy Gals Podcast, "Nipples, Censorship, Art Modeling and the Female Gaze" Alessia Galatini, May 18
2020 Curated By Girls, "Emma Shapiro: Artist & Activist", , May
2020 Jessica De La Torre, "Exposure Therapy, A Movement Toward Liberating the Female Body", Medium, April 14
2020 Foto Femme United, "Interview: Emma Shapiro" , March 30
2019 RISD XYZ, "High Time For Exposure Therapy" Sp/Su “Freedom” Issue p8-12
2019 Awesome Without Borders, "Grant #334 Exposure Therapy", January 19
2017 Alina Cohen, “6 Nude Models on What It's Like to Constantly Get Naked in Front of Scrutinizing Strangers” Marie Claire Magazine, June 2