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