Emilia Kabakov (born 1945) is an American artist born in Dnepropetrovisk, USSR (now Dnipro, Ukraine), whose work is most closely associated with conceptualism and installation art.

With the exception of painting, Emilia has shared the credit for all of Ilya's projects since 1997.

[2] In 1973 she immigrated to Israel, after which she settled in New York City in 1975 to pursue a career as a gallerist and curator.

In 1988 she began collaborating with Ilya Kabakov[2] who is both her husband and her uncle.

In 2000, the Kabakovs were commissioned by the Public Art Fund to create a major installation, The Palace of Projects, at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City consisting of 65 separate projects within a large spiral configuration 80 feet in diameter by 40 feet high.