Emma Sulkowicz

Performance artist living and working in New York City, most famous for her year-long performance art project Mattress Performance: Carry That Weight where she dragged a mattress around Columbia University in protest at the school’s mishandling of her sexual assault complaint, and becoming one of the faces of the movement against rape culture on college campuses.

Performance artist living and working in New York City, most famous for her year-long performance art project Mattress Performance: Carry That Weight where she dragged a mattress around Columbia University in protest at the school’s mishandling of her sexual assault complaint, and becoming one of the faces of the movement against rape culture on college campuses.