Emma Hart

Born 1974, London, UK

Lives and works in London, UK

 

Education

2013 PhD Fine Art, Kingston University

2004 MA Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art

2000 BA (Hons) Photography, Croydon College of Art

 

Selected solo exhibitions

Big Time, Hospitalfield, Angus, Scotland, UK 2023 

Big Mouth, Barakat Contemporary, South Korea 2021

Be Some Body, The Sunday Painter, London, UK 2020

Vanity Fair, Liste Art Fair with The Sunday Painter, Basel, Switzerland 2019 

Banger, The Edge, Bath, UK 2019

Banger, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK 2018

Commercial Breakz, Frieze London with The Sunday Painter, London, UK 2017

Mamma Mia!, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK 2017

Mamma Mia!, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy 2017

Love Life: Act III with Jonathan Baldock, De La Warr Pavilion, UK 2017

Love Life: Act II with Jonathan Baldock, The Grundy Arts Centre, Blackpool, UK 2017

Love Life: Act I with Jonathan Baldock, Peer Gallery, London, UK 2016

Car Crash, Gallery Lejeune, London, UK 2016

Suckerz with Jonathan Baldock, L’Etrangere, London UK 2015

Big MOUTH, Grand Union, Birmingham, UK 2015

Sticky, Austrian Cultural Forum, London, UK 2015

Spread Art Exchange, Colchester, UK 2015

Giving It All That, Folkestone Triennial, Folkestone, UK 2014

Dirty Looks, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK 2013

M20 Death Drives, Art Exchange, Colchester, UK 2013

Word Processor, Stanley Picker Gallery, London, UK 2012

TO DO, Circa Projects, Newcastle, UK 2012

TO DO, Outpost Gallery, Norwich, UK 2012 

M20 Death Drives, Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable, UK 2012

TO DO, Matt’s Gallery, London, UK 2011

Jam, Cell Project Space, London, UK 2011

All Action No Mouths, Banner Repeater, London, UK 2011

For Arrows part of ‘Night and Day’, Modern Art Oxford, UK 2010

The Holes Lecture, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK 2010  

For Arrows, Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable, UK 2010

The Fake Fake Slideshow, SE8 Gallery, London, UK 2010 

       

Selected group exhibitions 

Big Time, Frieze Sculpture, London, UK 2022

The Weight of Words, The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK 2023

Red and green should never be seen, Contemporary Art Fulmer, Fulmer, UK 2022

Beano: The Art of Breaking the Rules, Somerset House, London, UK 2021

Breathing the Light, Art Exchange, Colchester, UK 2021

Room With A View, Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany 2019

Ways of Seeing, Government Art Collection, Leytonstone Library, London, UK 2019

The Lie of The Land, Milton Keynes Gallery (catalogue), London, UK 2019

Condo, The Sunday Painter / A Central Galeriea, Sᾱo Paolo 2019

Further Thoughts on Earthy Materials, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Germany 2018

Taking Up Space, Government Art Collection, London, 2018

In My Shoes, Arts Council Touring Exhibition, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire, UK 2018

The Film London Jarman Award: A Journey Through the First Decade, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK 2018

Condo, The Sunday Painter, London, UK 2017

An Ear Severed, Listens, ChertLeudde, Berlin, Germany 2017

Sticky Intimacy, Chapter, Cardiff, UK 2016

Still Life with Flying Objects, Rhubaba Gallery, Edinburgh, UK 2016

Notes on Boredom, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland 2016

With Institutions Like These…, The Averard Hotel, London, UK 2016

The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery (catalogue), London, UK 2015

Ceramics and Graphite, Chert, Berlin, Germany 2015

The Drawing Room Biennale, Drawing Room, London, UK 2015

The Whole Wide World, The International 3, Manchester, UK 2015

Only the Lonely, La Galerie CAC, Noisy Le Sec, France 2015

Dear Luxembourg, Nosbaum Reding Project, Luxembourg 2015

A Machine Aesthetic, Transition Gallery, London, UK 2014

Bloody English, OHWOW Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA 2014

Hey I’m Mr.Poetic, Wysing Arts Centre, Caimbridge, UK 2014

The World Turned Upside Down, Mead Gallery, Warwick, UK 2013

Relatively Absolute, Wysing Arts Centre, Caimbridge, UK 2013

A Machine Aesthetic, Gallery North, Northumbria, UK 2013

Film in Space, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK 2012

Tomorrow Never Knows, Jerwood Space, London, UK 2012

Reclaim the Mural with The Work in Progress, Whitechapel Gallery (catalogue), London, UK 2011

Seeing in the Dark, Circa Projects, Newcastle, UK 2011

Their Wonderlands, MAC Birmingham, UK 2011

Bloomberg New Contemporaries, A Foundation, Liverpool and ICA, London. (catalogue), UK 2010

Untitled Seven, with Benedict Drew, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, UK 2010

Running and Standing with Melanie Stidolph, The Agency, London, UK 2010

Album, Five Years, London, UK 2010

 

Residencies, Commissions and Projects

Club Together, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK, 2024

Hear Now! commission for UCL East, London, UK 2022

Max Mara Art Prize for Women, residency at Via Farini and Museo Carlo Zauli, Italy 2016

Random Acts, commission for Channel 4, UK 2013

The Forest, residency at Wysing Arts Centre, Caimbridge UK 2012

Imagine Art Is Not Taught In School, commission for Tate Modern, 2011

Reclaim The Mural, collaborative commission for Whitechapel Gallery (offsite), London UK 2011

The Question Department, residency at Camden Arts Centre, London, UK 2009

Outhouse, residency at Outpost Gallery, Norwich, UK 2009

Rules and Regs, residency at a space, Southampton, UK 2008

 

Awards

2016 Winner,  The Max Mara Art Prize for Women, Whitechapel Gallery

2015 Winner, Paul Hamlyn Foundation Visual Arts Award

2013 Shortlist, Jarman Award,

2011 Shortlist, Tomorrow Never Knows, Jerwood Film and Video Umbrella Award

 

Public Collections

Arts Council Collection, UK

The Government Art Collection, UK

British Council Collection, UK

The Grundy Art Gallery Collection, UK