Emma Talbot
Exhibitions and Installations
Contact
Biog.
Psyche – Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, 2026
Precious Metals – Kristin Hjellegjerde, Florida, 2026
Always In Transformation – Hales Gallery, London, 2026
New Humans: Memories of the Future – New Museum, New York, 2026
Beyond Surrealism – Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2025
Everything Is Energy – Arnolfini, Bristol, 2025
How We Learn To Love – Compton Verney, Warwickshire, 2025
The Tragedies/Le Tragedie – Cremona Art Week, 2024
Why Look at Animals? A Case for the Rights of Non-Human Lives – ΕΜΣΤ, 2025
Mother Earth – Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2025
Are You a Living Thing That Is Dying or a Dying Thing That Is Living? – Copenhagen Contemporary, 2025
A Journey You Take Alone – Kunsthalle Giessen, 2023-2024
The Irreplaceable Human – Louisiana Museum, Denmark, 2023-2024
In The End, The Beginning – Kesselhaus Kindl Museum, Berlin,
2023-2024
The Human Experience – Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway, 2023
21st Century Herbal – Beiqiu Museum, Nanjing, China, 2023
The Milk of Dreams – Venice Biennale 2022
Special Project – Frieze London 2022
Max Mara Art Prize 2022 – Whitechapel Gallery, London/Collezione
Maramotti, Italy
CIRCA Project – Picadilly Circus, 2021
Ghost Calls – DCA Dundee, 2021
When Screens Break – Eastside Projects, Birmingham, 2020
Sounders of the Depths – Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, 2019
Works
Drawings
Psyche
Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, 17.5.26 – 24.6.26
Psyche
Acrylic on silk / mixed media
2026
Psyche
Acrylic on silk / mixed media
2026
Precious Metals
Acrylic on silk
Kristin Hjellegjerde, West Palm Beach, Miami, 16.4.26 – 23.5.26
Precious Metals
Paintings: acrylic on silk
2026
Precious Metals
Paintings: acrylic on silk
2026
Always In Transformation
Hales Gallery, London, 23.4.26 – 22.5.26
Always In Transformation
Paintings: acrylic on silk
Three-dimensional work: fabric, synthetic hair 2026
New Humans: Memories of the Future
New Museum, New York, 16.3.26 – ongoing
Cosmos
2026
Digital print on vinyl
Beyond Surrealism
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 15.11.25 – 6.4.26
Magical Garden (Spring/Summer, Autumn/Winter)
Acrylic on silk
2025
Everything Is Energy
Arnolfini, Bristol, 18.10.25 – 8.2.26
Everything Is Energy
2025
Everything Is Energy
2025
Everything Is Energy
2025
Everything Is Energy
2025
How We Learn To Love
Compton Verney, Warwickshire, 5.6.25 – 5.10.25
The Tragedies/Le Tragedie
2024
Installation
Grief reveals the most profound love
2023
Installation
Why Look at Animals? A Case for the Rights of Non-Human Lives
ΕΜΣΤ, Athens, 3.4.25 – 15.2.26
Human/Nature
2025
Human/Nature
2025
Human/Nature
2025
You Are Not the Centre (inside the animal mind)
Film still
2025 | Courtesy the artist
Mother Earth
Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands, 29.3.25 – 14.9.25
Mother Earth
2025
Mother Earth
2025
Mother Earth
Film still
2025 | Courtesy the artist
Are You a Living Thing That Is Dying or a Dying Thing That Is Living?
Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark, 01.02.25
– 31.08.25
Generative Plants
2025
Old Tree
2025
Are You a Living Thing That Is Dying or a Dying Thing That Is Living
2025
Are You a Living Thing That Is Dying or a Dying Thing That Is Living
2025
Le Tragedie/The Tragedies
Cremona Art Week, 18.5.24 – 26.5.24
The Tragedies/Le Tragedie
2024 | Photo by Chico/Ercoli/Rossetti
A Journey You Take Alone
Kunsthalle Giessen, 23.12.2023 – 29.03.2024
A Journey You Take Alone
Acrylic on silk
2023
A Journey You Take Alone
2023
A Journey You Take Alone
2023
A Journey You Take Alone
2023
The Irreplaceable Human
Louisiana Museum, Denmark, 23.11.2023 - 1.4.2024
Seeds Grow In Fertile Ground
Acrylic on silk
2023
Microdose Hope
Acrylic on silk
2023
Plunder
Acrylic on silk
2023
In The End, The Beginning
Kesselhaus Kindl Museum, Berlin, 17.9.2023 -
26.5.2024
In The End, The Beginning
Acrylic on silk
2023, photo: c.Jens Ziehe
In The End, The Beginning
Acrylic on silk
2023, photo: c.Jens Ziehe
In The End, The Beginning
Acrylic on silk
2023, photo: c.Jens Ziehe
In The End, The Beginning
Acrylic on silk
2023, photo: c.Jens Ziehe
In The End, The Beginning
Acrylic on silk
2023, photo: c.Jens Ziehe
In The End, The Beginning
Acrylic on silk
2023, photo: c.Jens Ziehe
The Human Experience
Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway, 2023
The Human Experience
Acrylic on silk
2023, photo c.Erik Sæter Jørgensen
The Human Experience
Acrylic on silk
2023, photo c.Erik Sæter Jørgensen
The Human Experience
Acrylic on silk
2023, photo c.Erik Sæter Jørgensen
The Human Experience
Acrylic on silk
2023, photo c.Erik Sæter Jørgensen
The Human Experience
Acrylic on silk
2023, photo c.Erik Sæter Jørgensen
21st Century Herbal
Beiqiu Museum, Nanjing, China, 2023
21st Century Herbal
Acrylic on silk
2023
21st Century Herbal
Acrylic on silk
2023
Venice Biennale 2022
The Milk of Dreams
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We
Going?
Acrylic on silk
2022
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We
Going?
Acrylic on silk
2022
Installation –
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We
Going?/Why Do We Think We Can Outwit Nature?
Detail –
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We
Going?
Acrylic on silk
2022
Detail –
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We
Going?
Acrylic on silk
2022
Detail –
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We
Going?
Acrylic on silk
2022
Detail– Why Do We Think We Can Outwit Nature?
Mixed media, digital knitting
2022
Frieze London 2022
Special Project
21st Century Herbal
Acrylic on silk – 28-metre hanging
2022
21st Century Herbal
Acrylic on silk – 28-metre hanging
2022
Detail – 21st Century Herbal
Acrylic on silk
2022
Detail – 21st Century Herbal
Acrylic on
silk
2022
Detail – 21st Century Herbal
Acrylic on
silk
2022
Max Mara Art Prize 2022,
Whitechapel Gallery, London
and
Collezione Maramotti, Italy
Installation – The Age/L'Età
Acrylic on silk, mixed media, animation
Whitechapel Gallery, London
2022
The Age/L’Età
Mixed media
Whitechapel Gallery, London
2022
Volcanic Landscape
Acrylic on silk
Whitechapel
Gallery, London
2022
Installation – The Age/L'Età
Acrylic on
silk, mixed media, animation
Collezione
Maramotti, Italy
2022
Installation – The Age/L'Età
Acrylic on
silk, mixed media, animation
Collezione
Maramotti, Italy
2022
Detail – The Age/L’Età
Acrylic on silk
2022
Detail – The Age/L’Età
Acrylic on silk
2022
CIRCA Project
Piccadilly Circus, 2021
Four Visions for a Hopeful Future
Digital animation
2021
Four Visions for a Hopeful Future
Digital
animation
2021
Ghost Calls
DCA Dundee, 2021
A Crash in Fast and Slow Motion
Acrylic on silk
2021
Installation – Ghost Calls
2021
Ghost Calls
Acrylic on silk
2021
Installation – Ghost Calls
2021
When Screens Break
Eastside Projects, Birmingham, 2020
Installation – When Screens Break
Acrylic on silk, acrylic on Voile, mixed media, digital
animation
2020
Installation
– When Screens Break
Acrylic on silk,
acrylic on Voile, mixed media, digital animation
2020
Installation – When Screens Break
Acrylic on silk, acrylic on Voile, mixed media, digital
animation
2020
Detail – When Screens Break
Acrylic on
silk, acrylic on Voile, mixed media, digital animation
2020
When Screens Break
Digital animation
2020
Sounders of the Depths
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, 2019
Your Birth, The Epic Historical Moment You Can’t
Remember
Mixed media and sound
2019
Installation – Sounders of The Depths
Mixed media and sound
2019
Installation – Sounders of The Depths
Mixed media and sound
2019
How is Your Own Death So Inconceivable?
Mixed media
2019
Works
Where Do We Come From?
Acrylic on silk
2021
In the End, the Beginning
Acrylic on silk
2021
Talking to Nature
Mixed media
2020
The World in Flames
Acrylic on silk
2021
Drawings
Watercolour on Khadi paper
Approx. 38cm x 42cm
Watercolour on Khadi paper
Approx. 38cm x 42cm
Watercolour on Khadi paper
Approx. 38cm x 42cm
Watercolour on Khadi paper
Approx. 38cm x 42cm
Watercolour on Khadi paper
Approx. 38cm x 42cm
Watercolour on Khadi paper
Approx. 38cm x 42cm
Watercolour on Khadi paper
Approx. 38cm x 42cm
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Contact
Biography
Education
1993 – 1995 Royal College of Art, London, MA Painting.
1988 – 1991 Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, BA Fine Art (first class).
1987 – 1988 Kent Institute of Art & Design, Foundation in Art & Design.
Awards
2020 8th Max Mara Art Prize for Women
2018 Bryan Robertson Trust Award
1998 City of Rochester Award
1995-6 Rome Scholarship, British School at Rome
Forthcoming confirmed exhibitions
Solo
Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany solo exhibition (May 2026)
Centraal Museum Utrecht, NL, solo presentation (March 2025)
K21 Den Haag NL group exhibition (March 2025)
EMST National Museum of contemporary art, Athens, solo presentation (April 2025)
Compton Verney, UK, solo exhibition (July 2025)
Arnolfini, Bristol, UK, solo exhibition (October 2025)
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam NL group exhibition (solo presentation) November 2025
Group
2026
To The Stars! Outer Space and Inner Longing since Modernism
Arp Museum, Germany (July 2026)
K21 Den Haag NL group exhibition (March 2025)
Selected solo exhibitions
2025
Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark
2024
‘Talking to Nature’ Museum Hundertwasser KHW, Vienna
Cremona Contemporanea, ‘The Tragedies’, Solo presentation, Teatro Ponchielli, Cremona, Italy
‘Visions’, Miucciaccia Project Space, Rome Italy
2023
Beiqiu Museum, Nanjing, China
'Model' Sligo, Ireland
KINDL, Kesselhaus, Berlin
'The Human Experience' Kunsthalle Giessen, Germany
‘21st Century Herbal’ Beiqiu Museum, Nanjing, China
Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
‘The Human Experience’ Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway
‘Magical Thinking’ Victoria Miro, Vortic Viewing Room (online)
‘The Age/L’Eta’ The Model, Sligo, Ireland
‘A Journey You Take Alone’ Kunsthalle Giessen, Germany
2022
‘The Age/l’Età’ Max Mara Art Prize solo exhibitions at Whitechapel Gallery, London UK
& Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
‘21st Century Herbal’ Special project, Frieze London
‘Let Poets Speak’ Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam NL
‘Meditations’ Petra Rinck Galerie, Dusseldorf DE
2021
‘Four Visions for a Hopeful Future’, CIRCA Project, Piccadilly Circus
‘Ghost Calls’ DCA Dundee UK
‘Ghost Calls and Meditations’, Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel CH
2020
‘When Screens Break’, Eastside Projects, Birmingham UK
‘Emma/Ursula’, Petra Rinck Galerie Dusseldorf DE
2019
‘Sounders of the Depths’, KM21 (GEM Kunstmuseum), The Hague NL
‘Your Own Authority’ Art Night 2019 Commission William Morris Gallery, London UK
‘Do You See Yourself Projected?’ Art Night 2019 commission, London UK
2018
‘Emma Talbot’, Nicolas Krupp Basel CH
‘21st Century Sleepwalk’, Caustic Coastal Salford UK
‘Woman-Bird-Snake’, Galerie Onrust Amsterdam NL
2017
‘Open Thoughts’, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, DE
‘The World Blown Apart’, Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam NL
‘Stained with Marks of Love’, Arcadia Missa, New York US
2016
‘Time After Time’, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf DE
‘Entrances and Exits’, Gallery 22, Bristol UK
‘Unravel These Knots’, Freud Museum, London UK
2015
‘Step Inside Love’, domobaal, London UK
‘Memories Turn to Dusk’, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE
2013
‘Means of Escape’, Mrs Rick's Cupboard at Primary, Nottingham, UK
2012
‘Bad Objects, Little Deaths’, Transition Gallery, London UK
2011
‘You Would Cry Too If It Happened to You’, Kusseneers Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium BE
The Solo Project, Basel (Kusseneers Gallery, Antwerp) BE
‘A Sheffield Song’, Bloc, Sheffield, UK
2010
‘Pictures From My Heart’, Transition Gallery, London UK
Selected group exhibitions
2023
‘Between Knowing and Understanding’ STUK Arts Center, Leuven, Belgium
‘Dawn of Humanity, Art in societies in transition in the early 20th and 21st centuries’, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
K21, Dusseldorf, Germany
‘Poly’, KINDL, Berlin, Germany
ARoS, Denmark
‘Between Knowing and Understanding’ Group exhibition STUK Arts Center, Leuven, Belgium
‘Dawn of Humanity, Art in Societies in Transition in the Early 20th and 21st Centuries’, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
‘Die unhintergehbare Verflechtung aller Leben (The Inescapable Intertwining of All Lives)’ Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany
‘Poly’, Kindl Museum, Berlin, Germany
‘Neue Gemeinschaften’, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
‘Images of Power’, Museum Rijswijk, Netherlands
‘Cycle, Portal, Path’ Nest, The Hague, Netherlands
‘At Heaven’s Edge, Visions’ Krona Museum, Uden, Netherlands
‘Kiss My Soul’, Dordrechts Museum, Netherlands
‘Irreplaceable Human? The Conditions of Creativity in the Age of AI’ Louisiana Museum, Denmark
‘Close Looking’, The David Roberts Art Foundation, London
‘The Cosmos Within’ ARoS, Denmark (December 2023- June 2024)
2022
‘The Milk of Dreams’ La Biennale di Venezia, Italy
‘Rosa Alcemico’, Minartextil, Villa Olmo, Como, Italy
‘Fantasmagoriana’ LIAF Biennale, Norway
‘Visions Or Waking Dreams’ Kunstverein Friedrichshafen DE
‘Fundamental Occurrences’ Nosbaum Reding, Brussels BE
2021
‘The Great Invocation’, Garage, Rotterdam NL
‘Delights of an Undirected Mind’, Lisson Gallery, London
‘Her Dark Materials’, Eye of the Huntress, online
‘A Temple Most August’, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto
2020
‘Winter Light’, Hayward Gallery, Southbank
‘Warp Threads’ Open Office Arcadia Missa London
‘Unstilled Life’ Ron Mandos Amsterdam
‘We Can’t Go Back’, Galerie Onrust Amsterdam
‘Displacement’, Petra Rinck Galerie
‘Not Without my Ghosts’, (2020-22) Hayward Touring, incl. Grundy Gallery Blackpool, Millenium Galleries Sheffield, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery Swansea,
2019
‘Starhawk’s Backyard’, Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam
‘Do You Keep Thinking There Must Be Another Way?’, Mimosa House, London
‘Just So Stories’, Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg
‘All That the Rain Promises’, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh
2018
‘From the Inside Out’, Drawing Room London
John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
‘Solitary Pleasures’, Freud Museum, London
‘Rumpy Bees & Pumpy Blooms’, Klosterpresse, Frankfurt
‘Journeys with The Wasteland’, Turner Contemporary Margate
‘Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by Her Writings’, Tate St Ives, Pallant House Gallery, Fitzwilliam Museum
‘Some Islands’, Coleman Projects, London
2017
CONDO Arcadia Missa, London
2016
MAC International Ulster Bank Prize, MAC Belfast
‘Telling Tales’, Collyer Bristow, London
‘Ghost On A Wire’, Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore
John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
‘Comic Tragics’, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
‘Endgame’, Turps Gallery, London
‘In Neuen Raumen’, Petra RInck Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany.
2015
DRKRM, DAM gallery, Germany.
Graphics Interchange Format: 25 years of Focal Point Gallery, Southend–on–Sea, UK
‘To Go Too Far’, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany.
‘In Miniature’, Nottingham Contemporary, UK
‘Birmingham Show’, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
2014
‘Mind the Gap’, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
‘Drawn Together: Artist as Selector’, celebrating 20 years of The Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, UK
Notte Bianca Valletta, City Lights, Valletta, Malta
The Manchester Contemporary (domobaal)
‘Art in The Home #2’, York, UK, Contemporary Art Society North
‘Detail’,H Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
‘Outrageous Fortune: Artists Remake the Tarot’,Exeter Phoenix, Hayward Touring, UK
2013
‘Atomic’, Transition Gallery, London
‘Art Britannia’, Madonna Building, Miami, USA
‘Drawing Now’, (Kusseneers Gallery), Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
‘Random House’, Arcadia Missa, London
‘All the Dead Dears’ WW Gallery, London
John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
‘I wish you well’, Vegas Gallery, London
2011
‘Me and My Shadow’, Kate MacGarry, London
‘Told’, Hales Gallery, London
‘The Life of the Mind’, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK (curated by Bob and Roberta Smith) including Louise Bourgeois, Lucia Noguiera, Sarah Lucas, Tracey Emin, Chris Ofili)
‘Outrageous Fortune’, Focal Point Gallery, Southend/Hayward Touring, curated by Andrew Hunt
‘Pulp Fictions’, Transition Gallery, London
Selected Collections
Louisiana Museum, Netherlands, Museum K21, Germany, David Roberts Collection, J. Sainsbury Plc, Saatchi Collection, Stephenson Harwood, TI Group, Unilever, University of the Arts London: Special Collections. Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Fries Museum NL, Arnhem Museum NL, KRC Collection NL, AzkoNobel NL,Bob and Susan Summers Collection USA, Waltham Forest Collection, City of Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Arts Council Collection, Guerlain Collection Paris, British Council Collection, Kunstsammlung NRW Dusseldorf, Studio Floridi Rome, Italy, Collezione Maramotti Italy.
Publications
'New Humans Memories Of The Future’, New Museum, 2026
‘Beyond Surrealism’, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2026
'Everything Is Energy', Arnolfini, Bristol, 2025
‘Emma Talbot ‘The Age/L’età’, Whitechapel Gallery, 2022
‘The Milk of Dreams’ Catalogue, La Biennale di Venezia, 2022
‘Vitamin D3’ Phaidon, 2021
‘Ghost Calls’ DAC Dundee, 2021
‘Sounders of The Depths’, K21/Galerie Onrust, 2019
‘From the Inside Out’, Drawing Room London, 2018
‘Drawing People’ by Roger Malbert Thames and Hudson, 2015
‘100 Painters of Tomorrow’ by Kurt Beers Thames and Hudson, 2014
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Contact
Biog.
Psyche
Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, 17.5.26 – 24.6.26
Psyche
Acrylic on silk / mixed media
2026
Psyche
Acrylic on silk / mixed media
2026
Precious Metals
Acrylic on silk
Kristin Hjellegjerde, West Palm Beach, Miami, 16.4.26 – 23.5.26
Precious Metals
Paintings: acrylic on silk
2026
Precious Metals
Paintings: acrylic on silk
2026
Always In Transformation
Hales Gallery, London, 23.4.26 – 22.5.26
Always In Transformation
Paintings: acrylic on silk
Three-dimensional work: fabric, synthetic hair 2026
New Humans: Memories of the Future
New Museum, New York, 16.3.26 – ongoing
Cosmos
2026
Digital print on vinyl
Beyond Surrealism
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 15.11.25 – 6.4.26
Magical Garden (Spring/Summer, Autumn/Winter)
Acrylic on silk
2025
Everything Is Energy
Arnolfini, Bristol, 18.10.25 – 8.2.26
Everything Is Energy
2025
Everything Is Energy
2025
Everything Is Energy
2025
Everything Is Energy
2025
How We Learn To Love
Compton Verney, Warwickshire, 5.6.25 – 5.10.25
The Tragedies/Le Tragedie
2024
Installation
Grief reveals the most profound love
2023
Installation
Why Look at Animals? A Case for the Rights of Non-Human Lives
ΕΜΣΤ, Athens, 3.4.25 – 15.2.26
Human/Nature
2025
Human/Nature
2025
Human/Nature
2025
You Are Not the Centre (inside the animal mind)
Film still
2025 | Courtesy the artist
Mother Earth
Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands, 29.3.25 – 14.9.25
Mother Earth
2025
Mother Earth
2025
Mother Earth
Film still
2025 | Courtesy the artist
Are You a Living Thing That Is Dying or a Dying Thing That Is Living?
Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark, 01.02.25 – 31.08.25
Generative Plants
2025
Old Tree
2025
Are You a Living Thing That Is Dying or a Dying Thing That Is Living
2025
Are You a Living Thing That Is Dying or a Dying Thing That Is Living
2025
Le Tragedie/The Tragedies
Cremona Art Week, 18.5.24 – 26.5.24
The Tragedies/Le Tragedie
2024 | Photo by Chico/Ercoli/Rossetti
A Journey You Take Alone
Kunsthalle Giessen, 23.12.2023 – 29.03.2024
A Journey You Take Alone
Acrylic on silk
2023
A Journey You Take Alone
2023
A Journey You Take Alone
2023
A Journey You Take Alone
2023
The Irreplaceable Human
Louisiana Museum, Denmark, 23.11.2023 - 1.4.2024
Seeds Grow In Fertile Ground
Acrylic on silk
2023
Microdose Hope
Acrylic on silk
2023
Plunder
Acrylic on silk
2023
In The End, The Beginning
Kesselhaus Kindl Museum, Berlin, 17.9.2023 -
26.5.2024
In The End, The Beginning
Acrylic on silk
2023, photo: c.Jens Ziehe
In The End, The Beginning
Acrylic on silk
2023, photo: c.Jens Ziehe
In The End, The Beginning
Acrylic on silk
2023, photo: c.Jens Ziehe
In The End, The Beginning
Acrylic on silk
2023, photo: c.Jens Ziehe
In The End, The Beginning
Acrylic on silk
2023, photo: c.Jens Ziehe
In The End, The Beginning
Acrylic on silk
2023, photo: c.Jens Ziehe
The Human Experience
Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway, 2023
The Human Experience
Acrylic on silk
2023, photo c.Erik Sæter Jørgensen
The Human Experience
Acrylic on silk
2023, photo c.Erik Sæter Jørgensen
The Human Experience
Acrylic on silk
2023, photo c.Erik Sæter Jørgensen
The Human Experience
Acrylic on silk
2023, photo c.Erik Sæter Jørgensen
The Human Experience
Acrylic on silk
2023, photo c.Erik Sæter Jørgensen
21st Century Herbal
Beiqiu Museum, Nanjing, China, 2023
21st Century Herbal
Acrylic on silk
2023
21st Century Herbal
Acrylic on silk
2023
Venice Biennale 2022
The Milk of Dreams
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We
Going?
Acrylic on silk
2022
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We
Going?
Acrylic on silk
2022
Installation –
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We
Going?/Why Do We Think We Can Outwit Nature?
Detail –
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We
Going?
Acrylic on silk
2022
Detail –
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We
Going?
Acrylic on silk
2022
Detail –
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We
Going?
Acrylic on silk
2022
Detail– Why Do We Think We Can Outwit Nature?
Mixed media, digital knitting
2022
Frieze London 2022
Special Project
21st Century Herbal
Acrylic on silk – 28-metre hanging
2022
21st Century Herbal
Acrylic on silk – 28-metre hanging
2022
Detail – 21st Century Herbal
Acrylic on silk
2022
Detail – 21st Century Herbal
Acrylic on
silk
2022
Detail – 21st Century Herbal
Acrylic on
silk
2022
Max Mara Art Prize 2022,
Whitechapel Gallery, London
and
Collezione Maramotti, Italy
Installation – The Age/L'Età
Acrylic on silk, mixed media, animation
Whitechapel Gallery, London
2022
The Age/L’Età
Mixed media
Whitechapel Gallery, London
2022
Volcanic Landscape
Acrylic on silk
Whitechapel
Gallery, London
2022
Installation – The Age/L'Età
Acrylic on
silk, mixed media, animation
Collezione
Maramotti, Italy
2022
Installation – The Age/L'Età
Acrylic on
silk, mixed media, animation
Collezione
Maramotti, Italy
2022
Detail – The Age/L’Età
Acrylic on silk
2022
Detail – The Age/L’Età
Acrylic on silk
2022
CIRCA Project
Piccadilly Circus, 2021
Four Visions for a Hopeful Future
Digital animation
2021
Four Visions for a Hopeful Future
Digital
animation
2021
Ghost Calls
DCA Dundee, 2021
A Crash in Fast and Slow Motion
Acrylic on silk
2021
Installation – Ghost Calls
2021
Ghost Calls
Acrylic on silk
2021
Installation – Ghost Calls
2021
When Screens Break
Eastside Projects, Birmingham, 2020
Installation – When Screens Break
Acrylic on silk, acrylic on Voile, mixed media, digital
animation
2020
Installation
– When Screens Break
Acrylic on silk,
acrylic on Voile, mixed media, digital animation
2020
Installation – When Screens Break
Acrylic on silk, acrylic on Voile, mixed media, digital
animation
2020
Detail – When Screens Break
Acrylic on
silk, acrylic on Voile, mixed media, digital animation
2020
When Screens Break
Digital animation
2020
Sounders of the Depths
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, 2019
Your Birth, The Epic Historical Moment You Can’t
Remember
Mixed media and sound
2019
Installation – Sounders of The Depths
Mixed media and sound
2019
Installation – Sounders of The Depths
Mixed media and sound
2019
How is Your Own Death So Inconceivable?
Mixed media
2019
Works
Where Do We Come From?
Acrylic on silk
2021
In the End, the Beginning
Acrylic on silk
2021
Talking to Nature
Mixed media
2020
The World in Flames
Acrylic on silk
2021
Drawings
Watercolour on Khadi paper
Approx. 38cm x 42cm
Watercolour on Khadi paper
Approx. 38cm x 42cm
Watercolour on Khadi paper
Approx. 38cm x 42cm
Watercolour on Khadi paper
Approx. 38cm x 42cm
Watercolour on Khadi paper
Approx. 38cm x 42cm
Watercolour on Khadi paper
Approx. 38cm x 42cm
Watercolour on Khadi paper
Approx. 38cm x 42cm
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Contact
Biography
Education
1993 – 1995 Royal College of Art, London, MA Painting.
1988 – 1991 Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, BA Fine Art (first class).
1987 – 1988 Kent Institute of Art & Design, Foundation in Art & Design.
Awards
2020 8th Max Mara Art Prize for Women
2018 Bryan Robertson Trust Award
1998 City of Rochester Award
1995-6 Rome Scholarship, British School at Rome
Forthcoming confirmed exhibitions
Solo
Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany solo exhibition (May 2026)
Centraal Museum Utrecht, NL, solo presentation (March 2025)
K21 Den Haag NL group exhibition (March 2025)
EMST National Museum of contemporary art, Athens, solo presentation (April 2025)
Compton Verney, UK, solo exhibition (July 2025)
Arnolfini, Bristol, UK, solo exhibition (October 2025)
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam NL group exhibition (solo presentation) November 2025
Group
2026
To The Stars! Outer Space and Inner Longing since Modernism
Arp Museum, Germany (July 2026)
K21 Den Haag NL group exhibition (March 2025)
Selected solo exhibitions
2025
Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark
2024
‘Talking to Nature’ Museum Hundertwasser KHW, Vienna
Cremona Contemporanea, ‘The Tragedies’, Solo presentation, Teatro Ponchielli, Cremona, Italy
‘Visions’, Miucciaccia Project Space, Rome Italy
2023
Beiqiu Museum, Nanjing, China
'Model' Sligo, Ireland
KINDL, Kesselhaus, Berlin
'The Human Experience' Kunsthalle Giessen, Germany
‘21st Century Herbal’ Beiqiu Museum, Nanjing, China
Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
‘The Human Experience’ Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway
‘Magical Thinking’ Victoria Miro, Vortic Viewing Room (online)
‘The Age/L’Eta’ The Model, Sligo, Ireland
‘A Journey You Take Alone’ Kunsthalle Giessen, Germany
2022
‘The Age/l’Età’ Max Mara Art Prize solo exhibitions at Whitechapel Gallery, London UK
& Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
‘21st Century Herbal’ Special project, Frieze London
‘Let Poets Speak’ Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam NL
‘Meditations’ Petra Rinck Galerie, Dusseldorf DE
2021
‘Four Visions for a Hopeful Future’, CIRCA Project, Piccadilly Circus
‘Ghost Calls’ DCA Dundee UK
‘Ghost Calls and Meditations’, Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel CH
2020
‘When Screens Break’, Eastside Projects, Birmingham UK
‘Emma/Ursula’, Petra Rinck Galerie Dusseldorf DE
2019
‘Sounders of the Depths’, KM21 (GEM Kunstmuseum), The Hague NL
‘Your Own Authority’ Art Night 2019 Commission William Morris Gallery, London UK
‘Do You See Yourself Projected?’ Art Night 2019 commission, London UK
2018
‘Emma Talbot’, Nicolas Krupp Basel CH
‘21st Century Sleepwalk’, Caustic Coastal Salford UK
‘Woman-Bird-Snake’, Galerie Onrust Amsterdam NL
2017
‘Open Thoughts’, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, DE
‘The World Blown Apart’, Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam NL
‘Stained with Marks of Love’, Arcadia Missa, New York US
2016
‘Time After Time’, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf DE
‘Entrances and Exits’, Gallery 22, Bristol UK
‘Unravel These Knots’, Freud Museum, London UK
2015
‘Step Inside Love’, domobaal, London UK
‘Memories Turn to Dusk’, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE
2013
‘Means of Escape’, Mrs Rick's Cupboard at Primary, Nottingham, UK
2012
‘Bad Objects, Little Deaths’, Transition Gallery, London UK
2011
‘You Would Cry Too If It Happened to You’, Kusseneers Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium BE
The Solo Project, Basel (Kusseneers Gallery, Antwerp) BE
‘A Sheffield Song’, Bloc, Sheffield, UK
2010
‘Pictures From My Heart’, Transition Gallery, London UK
Selected group exhibitions
2023
‘Between Knowing and Understanding’ STUK Arts Center, Leuven, Belgium
‘Dawn of Humanity, Art in societies in transition in the early 20th and 21st centuries’, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
K21, Dusseldorf, Germany
‘Poly’, KINDL, Berlin, Germany
ARoS, Denmark
‘Between Knowing and Understanding’ Group exhibition STUK Arts Center, Leuven, Belgium
‘Dawn of Humanity, Art in Societies in Transition in the Early 20th and 21st Centuries’, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
‘Die unhintergehbare Verflechtung aller Leben (The Inescapable Intertwining of All Lives)’ Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany
‘Poly’, Kindl Museum, Berlin, Germany
‘Neue Gemeinschaften’, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
‘Images of Power’, Museum Rijswijk, Netherlands
‘Cycle, Portal, Path’ Nest, The Hague, Netherlands
‘At Heaven’s Edge, Visions’ Krona Museum, Uden, Netherlands
‘Kiss My Soul’, Dordrechts Museum, Netherlands
‘Irreplaceable Human? The Conditions of Creativity in the Age of AI’ Louisiana Museum, Denmark
‘Close Looking’, The David Roberts Art Foundation, London
‘The Cosmos Within’ ARoS, Denmark (December 2023- June 2024)
2022
‘The Milk of Dreams’ La Biennale di Venezia, Italy
‘Rosa Alcemico’, Minartextil, Villa Olmo, Como, Italy
‘Fantasmagoriana’ LIAF Biennale, Norway
‘Visions Or Waking Dreams’ Kunstverein Friedrichshafen DE
‘Fundamental Occurrences’ Nosbaum Reding, Brussels BE
2021
‘The Great Invocation’, Garage, Rotterdam NL
‘Delights of an Undirected Mind’, Lisson Gallery, London
‘Her Dark Materials’, Eye of the Huntress, online
‘A Temple Most August’, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto
2020
‘Winter Light’, Hayward Gallery, Southbank
‘Warp Threads’ Open Office Arcadia Missa London
‘Unstilled Life’ Ron Mandos Amsterdam
‘We Can’t Go Back’, Galerie Onrust Amsterdam
‘Displacement’, Petra Rinck Galerie
‘Not Without my Ghosts’, (2020-22) Hayward Touring, incl. Grundy Gallery Blackpool, Millenium Galleries Sheffield, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery Swansea,
2019
‘Starhawk’s Backyard’, Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam
‘Do You Keep Thinking There Must Be Another Way?’, Mimosa House, London
‘Just So Stories’, Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg
‘All That the Rain Promises’, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh
2018
‘From the Inside Out’, Drawing Room London
John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
‘Solitary Pleasures’, Freud Museum, London
‘Rumpy Bees & Pumpy Blooms’, Klosterpresse, Frankfurt
‘Journeys with The Wasteland’, Turner Contemporary Margate
‘Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by Her Writings’, Tate St Ives, Pallant House Gallery, Fitzwilliam Museum
‘Some Islands’, Coleman Projects, London
2017
CONDO Arcadia Missa, London
2016
MAC International Ulster Bank Prize, MAC Belfast
‘Telling Tales’, Collyer Bristow, London
‘Ghost On A Wire’, Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore
John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
‘Comic Tragics’, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
‘Endgame’, Turps Gallery, London
‘In Neuen Raumen’, Petra RInck Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany.
2015
DRKRM, DAM gallery, Germany.
Graphics Interchange Format: 25 years of Focal Point Gallery, Southend–on–Sea, UK
‘To Go Too Far’, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany.
‘In Miniature’, Nottingham Contemporary, UK
‘Birmingham Show’, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
2014
‘Mind the Gap’, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
‘Drawn Together: Artist as Selector’, celebrating 20 years of The Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, UK
Notte Bianca Valletta, City Lights, Valletta, Malta
The Manchester Contemporary (domobaal)
‘Art in The Home #2’, York, UK, Contemporary Art Society North
‘Detail’,H Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
‘Outrageous Fortune: Artists Remake the Tarot’,Exeter Phoenix, Hayward Touring, UK
2013
‘Atomic’, Transition Gallery, London
‘Art Britannia’, Madonna Building, Miami, USA
‘Drawing Now’, (Kusseneers Gallery), Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
‘Random House’, Arcadia Missa, London
‘All the Dead Dears’ WW Gallery, London
John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
‘I wish you well’, Vegas Gallery, London
2011
‘Me and My Shadow’, Kate MacGarry, London
‘Told’, Hales Gallery, London
‘The Life of the Mind’, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK (curated by Bob and Roberta Smith) including Louise Bourgeois, Lucia Noguiera, Sarah Lucas, Tracey Emin, Chris Ofili)
‘Outrageous Fortune’, Focal Point Gallery, Southend/Hayward Touring, curated by Andrew Hunt
‘Pulp Fictions’, Transition Gallery, London
Selected Collections
Louisiana Museum, Netherlands, Museum K21, Germany, David Roberts Collection, J. Sainsbury Plc, Saatchi Collection, Stephenson Harwood, TI Group, Unilever, University of the Arts London: Special Collections. Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Fries Museum NL, Arnhem Museum NL, KRC Collection NL, AzkoNobel NL,Bob and Susan Summers Collection USA, Waltham Forest Collection, City of Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Arts Council Collection, Guerlain Collection Paris, British Council Collection, Kunstsammlung NRW Dusseldorf, Studio Floridi Rome, Italy, Collezione Maramotti Italy.
Publications
'New Humans Memories Of The Future’, New Museum, 2026
‘Beyond Surrealism’, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2026
'Everything Is Energy', Arnolfini, Bristol, 2025
‘Emma Talbot ‘The Age/L’età’, Whitechapel Gallery, 2022
‘The Milk of Dreams’ Catalogue, La Biennale di Venezia, 2022
‘Vitamin D3’ Phaidon, 2021
‘Ghost Calls’ DAC Dundee, 2021
‘Sounders of The Depths’, K21/Galerie Onrust, 2019
‘From the Inside Out’, Drawing Room London, 2018
‘Drawing People’ by Roger Malbert Thames and Hudson, 2015
‘100 Painters of Tomorrow’ by Kurt Beers Thames and Hudson, 2014
Website designed January 2023. All rights reserved.
Images not to be reproduced without permission of their
owner.
Seeds Grow In Fertile Ground
Acrylic on silk
2023
Microdose Hope
Acrylic on silk
2023
Plunder
Acrylic on silk
2023
In The End, The Beginning
Kesselhaus Kindl Museum, Berlin, 17.9.2023 - 26.5.2024
In The End, The Beginning
Acrylic on silk
2023, photo: c.Jens Ziehe
In The End, The Beginning
Acrylic on silk
2023, photo: c.Jens Ziehe
In The End, The Beginning
Acrylic on silk
2023, photo: c.Jens Ziehe
In The End, The Beginning
Acrylic on silk
2023, photo: c.Jens Ziehe
In The End, The Beginning
Acrylic on silk
2023, photo: c.Jens Ziehe
In The End, The Beginning
Acrylic on silk
2023, photo: c.Jens Ziehe
The Human Experience
Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway, 2023
The Human Experience
Acrylic on silk
2023, photo c.Erik Sæter Jørgensen
The Human Experience
Acrylic on silk
2023, photo c.Erik Sæter Jørgensen
The Human Experience
Acrylic on silk
2023, photo c.Erik Sæter Jørgensen
The Human Experience
Acrylic on silk
2023, photo c.Erik Sæter Jørgensen
The Human Experience
Acrylic on silk
2023, photo c.Erik Sæter Jørgensen
21st Century Herbal
Beiqiu Museum, Nanjing, China, 2023
21st Century Herbal
Acrylic on silk
2023
21st Century Herbal
Acrylic on silk
2023
Venice Biennale 2022
The Milk of Dreams
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We
Going?
Acrylic on silk
2022
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We
Going?
Acrylic on silk
2022
Installation –
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We
Going?/Why Do We Think We Can Outwit Nature?
Detail –
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We
Going?
Acrylic on silk
2022
Detail –
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We
Going?
Acrylic on silk
2022
Detail –
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We
Going?
Acrylic on silk
2022
Detail– Why Do We Think We Can Outwit Nature?
Mixed media, digital knitting
2022
Frieze London 2022
Special Project
21st Century Herbal
Acrylic on silk – 28-metre hanging
2022
21st Century Herbal
Acrylic on silk – 28-metre hanging
2022
Detail – 21st Century Herbal
Acrylic on silk
2022
Detail – 21st Century Herbal
Acrylic on
silk
2022
Detail – 21st Century Herbal
Acrylic on
silk
2022
Max Mara Art Prize 2022,
Whitechapel Gallery, London
and
Collezione Maramotti, Italy
Installation – The Age/L'Età
Acrylic on silk, mixed media, animation
Whitechapel Gallery, London
2022
The Age/L’Età
Mixed media
Whitechapel Gallery, London
2022
Volcanic Landscape
Acrylic on silk
Whitechapel
Gallery, London
2022
Installation – The Age/L'Età
Acrylic on
silk, mixed media, animation
Collezione
Maramotti, Italy
2022
Installation – The Age/L'Età
Acrylic on
silk, mixed media, animation
Collezione
Maramotti, Italy
2022
Detail – The Age/L’Età
Acrylic on silk
2022
Detail – The Age/L’Età
Acrylic on silk
2022
CIRCA Project
Piccadilly Circus, 2021
Four Visions for a Hopeful Future
Digital animation
2021
Four Visions for a Hopeful Future
Digital
animation
2021
Ghost Calls
DCA Dundee, 2021
A Crash in Fast and Slow Motion
Acrylic on silk
2021
Installation – Ghost Calls
2021
Ghost Calls
Acrylic on silk
2021
Installation – Ghost Calls
2021
When Screens Break
Eastside Projects, Birmingham, 2020
Installation – When Screens Break
Acrylic on silk, acrylic on Voile, mixed media, digital
animation
2020
Installation
– When Screens Break
Acrylic on silk,
acrylic on Voile, mixed media, digital animation
2020
Installation – When Screens Break
Acrylic on silk, acrylic on Voile, mixed media, digital
animation
2020
Detail – When Screens Break
Acrylic on
silk, acrylic on Voile, mixed media, digital animation
2020
When Screens Break
Digital animation
2020
Sounders of the Depths
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, 2019
Your Birth, The Epic Historical Moment You Can’t
Remember
Mixed media and sound
2019
Installation – Sounders of The Depths
Mixed media and sound
2019
Installation – Sounders of The Depths
Mixed media and sound
2019
How is Your Own Death So Inconceivable?
Mixed media
2019
Works
Where Do We Come From?
Acrylic on silk
2021
In the End, the Beginning
Acrylic on silk
2021
Talking to Nature
Mixed media
2020
The World in Flames
Acrylic on silk
2021
Drawings
Watercolour on Khadi paper
Approx. 38cm x 42cm
Watercolour on Khadi paper
Approx. 38cm x 42cm
Watercolour on Khadi paper
Approx. 38cm x 42cm
Watercolour on Khadi paper
Approx. 38cm x 42cm
Watercolour on Khadi paper
Approx. 38cm x 42cm
Watercolour on Khadi paper
Approx. 38cm x 42cm
Watercolour on Khadi paper
Approx. 38cm x 42cm
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Contact
Biography
Education
1993 – 1995 Royal College of Art, London, MA Painting.
1988 – 1991 Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, BA Fine Art (first class).
1987 – 1988 Kent Institute of Art & Design, Foundation in Art & Design.
Awards
2020 8th Max Mara Art Prize for Women
2018 Bryan Robertson Trust Award
1998 City of Rochester Award
1995-6 Rome Scholarship, British School at Rome
Forthcoming confirmed exhibitions
Solo
Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany solo exhibition (May 2026)
Centraal Museum Utrecht, NL, solo presentation (March 2025)
K21 Den Haag NL group exhibition (March 2025)
EMST National Museum of contemporary art, Athens, solo presentation (April 2025)
Compton Verney, UK, solo exhibition (July 2025)
Arnolfini, Bristol, UK, solo exhibition (October 2025)
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam NL group exhibition (solo presentation) November 2025
Group
2026
To The Stars! Outer Space and Inner Longing since Modernism
Arp Museum, Germany (July 2026)
K21 Den Haag NL group exhibition (March 2025)
Selected solo exhibitions
2025
Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark
2024
‘Talking to Nature’ Museum Hundertwasser KHW, Vienna
Cremona Contemporanea, ‘The Tragedies’, Solo presentation, Teatro Ponchielli, Cremona, Italy
‘Visions’, Miucciaccia Project Space, Rome Italy
2023
Beiqiu Museum, Nanjing, China
'Model' Sligo, Ireland
KINDL, Kesselhaus, Berlin
'The Human Experience' Kunsthalle Giessen, Germany
‘21st Century Herbal’ Beiqiu Museum, Nanjing, China
Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
‘The Human Experience’ Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway
‘Magical Thinking’ Victoria Miro, Vortic Viewing Room (online)
‘The Age/L’Eta’ The Model, Sligo, Ireland
‘A Journey You Take Alone’ Kunsthalle Giessen, Germany
2022
‘The Age/l’Età’ Max Mara Art Prize solo exhibitions at Whitechapel Gallery, London UK
& Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
‘21st Century Herbal’ Special project, Frieze London
‘Let Poets Speak’ Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam NL
‘Meditations’ Petra Rinck Galerie, Dusseldorf DE
2021
‘Four Visions for a Hopeful Future’, CIRCA Project, Piccadilly Circus
‘Ghost Calls’ DCA Dundee UK
‘Ghost Calls and Meditations’, Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel CH
2020
‘When Screens Break’, Eastside Projects, Birmingham UK
‘Emma/Ursula’, Petra Rinck Galerie Dusseldorf DE
2019
‘Sounders of the Depths’, KM21 (GEM Kunstmuseum), The Hague NL
‘Your Own Authority’ Art Night 2019 Commission William Morris Gallery, London UK
‘Do You See Yourself Projected?’ Art Night 2019 commission, London UK
2018
‘Emma Talbot’, Nicolas Krupp Basel CH
‘21st Century Sleepwalk’, Caustic Coastal Salford UK
‘Woman-Bird-Snake’, Galerie Onrust Amsterdam NL
2017
‘Open Thoughts’, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, DE
‘The World Blown Apart’, Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam NL
‘Stained with Marks of Love’, Arcadia Missa, New York US
2016
‘Time After Time’, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf DE
‘Entrances and Exits’, Gallery 22, Bristol UK
‘Unravel These Knots’, Freud Museum, London UK
2015
‘Step Inside Love’, domobaal, London UK
‘Memories Turn to Dusk’, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE
2013
‘Means of Escape’, Mrs Rick's Cupboard at Primary, Nottingham, UK
2012
‘Bad Objects, Little Deaths’, Transition Gallery, London UK
2011
‘You Would Cry Too If It Happened to You’, Kusseneers Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium BE
The Solo Project, Basel (Kusseneers Gallery, Antwerp) BE
‘A Sheffield Song’, Bloc, Sheffield, UK
2010
‘Pictures From My Heart’, Transition Gallery, London UK
Selected group exhibitions
2023
‘Between Knowing and Understanding’ STUK Arts Center, Leuven, Belgium
‘Dawn of Humanity, Art in societies in transition in the early 20th and 21st centuries’, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
K21, Dusseldorf, Germany
‘Poly’, KINDL, Berlin, Germany
ARoS, Denmark
‘Between Knowing and Understanding’ Group exhibition STUK Arts Center, Leuven, Belgium
‘Dawn of Humanity, Art in Societies in Transition in the Early 20th and 21st Centuries’, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
‘Die unhintergehbare Verflechtung aller Leben (The Inescapable Intertwining of All Lives)’ Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany
‘Poly’, Kindl Museum, Berlin, Germany
‘Neue Gemeinschaften’, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
‘Images of Power’, Museum Rijswijk, Netherlands
‘Cycle, Portal, Path’ Nest, The Hague, Netherlands
‘At Heaven’s Edge, Visions’ Krona Museum, Uden, Netherlands
‘Kiss My Soul’, Dordrechts Museum, Netherlands
‘Irreplaceable Human? The Conditions of Creativity in the Age of AI’ Louisiana Museum, Denmark
‘Close Looking’, The David Roberts Art Foundation, London
‘The Cosmos Within’ ARoS, Denmark (December 2023- June 2024)
2022
‘The Milk of Dreams’ La Biennale di Venezia, Italy
‘Rosa Alcemico’, Minartextil, Villa Olmo, Como, Italy
‘Fantasmagoriana’ LIAF Biennale, Norway
‘Visions Or Waking Dreams’ Kunstverein Friedrichshafen DE
‘Fundamental Occurrences’ Nosbaum Reding, Brussels BE
2021
‘The Great Invocation’, Garage, Rotterdam NL
‘Delights of an Undirected Mind’, Lisson Gallery, London
‘Her Dark Materials’, Eye of the Huntress, online
‘A Temple Most August’, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto
2020
‘Winter Light’, Hayward Gallery, Southbank
‘Warp Threads’ Open Office Arcadia Missa London
‘Unstilled Life’ Ron Mandos Amsterdam
‘We Can’t Go Back’, Galerie Onrust Amsterdam
‘Displacement’, Petra Rinck Galerie
‘Not Without my Ghosts’, (2020-22) Hayward Touring, incl. Grundy Gallery Blackpool, Millenium Galleries Sheffield, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery Swansea,
2019
‘Starhawk’s Backyard’, Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam
‘Do You Keep Thinking There Must Be Another Way?’, Mimosa House, London
‘Just So Stories’, Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg
‘All That the Rain Promises’, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh
2018
‘From the Inside Out’, Drawing Room London
John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
‘Solitary Pleasures’, Freud Museum, London
‘Rumpy Bees & Pumpy Blooms’, Klosterpresse, Frankfurt
‘Journeys with The Wasteland’, Turner Contemporary Margate
‘Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by Her Writings’, Tate St Ives, Pallant House Gallery, Fitzwilliam Museum
‘Some Islands’, Coleman Projects, London
2017
CONDO Arcadia Missa, London
2016
MAC International Ulster Bank Prize, MAC Belfast
‘Telling Tales’, Collyer Bristow, London
‘Ghost On A Wire’, Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore
John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
‘Comic Tragics’, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
‘Endgame’, Turps Gallery, London
‘In Neuen Raumen’, Petra RInck Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany.
2015
DRKRM, DAM gallery, Germany.
Graphics Interchange Format: 25 years of Focal Point Gallery, Southend–on–Sea, UK
‘To Go Too Far’, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany.
‘In Miniature’, Nottingham Contemporary, UK
‘Birmingham Show’, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
2014
‘Mind the Gap’, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
‘Drawn Together: Artist as Selector’, celebrating 20 years of The Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, UK
Notte Bianca Valletta, City Lights, Valletta, Malta
The Manchester Contemporary (domobaal)
‘Art in The Home #2’, York, UK, Contemporary Art Society North
‘Detail’,H Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
‘Outrageous Fortune: Artists Remake the Tarot’,Exeter Phoenix, Hayward Touring, UK
2013
‘Atomic’, Transition Gallery, London
‘Art Britannia’, Madonna Building, Miami, USA
‘Drawing Now’, (Kusseneers Gallery), Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
‘Random House’, Arcadia Missa, London
‘All the Dead Dears’ WW Gallery, London
John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
‘I wish you well’, Vegas Gallery, London
2011
‘Me and My Shadow’, Kate MacGarry, London
‘Told’, Hales Gallery, London
‘The Life of the Mind’, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK (curated by Bob and Roberta Smith) including Louise Bourgeois, Lucia Noguiera, Sarah Lucas, Tracey Emin, Chris Ofili)
‘Outrageous Fortune’, Focal Point Gallery, Southend/Hayward Touring, curated by Andrew Hunt
‘Pulp Fictions’, Transition Gallery, London
Selected Collections
Louisiana Museum, Netherlands, Museum K21, Germany, David Roberts Collection, J. Sainsbury Plc, Saatchi Collection, Stephenson Harwood, TI Group, Unilever, University of the Arts London: Special Collections. Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Fries Museum NL, Arnhem Museum NL, KRC Collection NL, AzkoNobel NL,Bob and Susan Summers Collection USA, Waltham Forest Collection, City of Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Arts Council Collection, Guerlain Collection Paris, British Council Collection, Kunstsammlung NRW Dusseldorf, Studio Floridi Rome, Italy, Collezione Maramotti Italy.
Publications
'New Humans Memories Of The Future’, New Museum, 2026
‘Beyond Surrealism’, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2026
'Everything Is Energy', Arnolfini, Bristol, 2025
‘Emma Talbot ‘The Age/L’età’, Whitechapel Gallery, 2022
‘The Milk of Dreams’ Catalogue, La Biennale di Venezia, 2022
‘Vitamin D3’ Phaidon, 2021
‘Ghost Calls’ DAC Dundee, 2021
‘Sounders of The Depths’, K21/Galerie Onrust, 2019
‘From the Inside Out’, Drawing Room London, 2018
‘Drawing People’ by Roger Malbert Thames and Hudson, 2015
‘100 Painters of Tomorrow’ by Kurt Beers Thames and Hudson, 2014
Website designed January 2023. All rights reserved.
Images not to be reproduced without permission of their
owner.
The Human Experience
Acrylic on silk
2023, photo c.Erik Sæter Jørgensen
The Human Experience
Acrylic on silk
2023, photo c.Erik Sæter Jørgensen
The Human Experience
Acrylic on silk
2023, photo c.Erik Sæter Jørgensen
The Human Experience
Acrylic on silk
2023, photo c.Erik Sæter Jørgensen
The Human Experience
Acrylic on silk
2023, photo c.Erik Sæter Jørgensen
21st Century Herbal
Beiqiu Museum, Nanjing, China, 2023
21st Century Herbal
Acrylic on silk
2023
21st Century Herbal
Acrylic on silk
2023
Venice Biennale 2022
The Milk of Dreams
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
Acrylic on silk
2022
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
Acrylic on silk
2022
Installation – Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?/Why Do We Think We Can Outwit Nature?
Detail –
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We
Going?
Acrylic on silk
2022
Detail – Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
Acrylic on silk
2022
Detail – Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
Acrylic on silk
2022
Detail– Why Do We Think We Can Outwit Nature?
Mixed media, digital knitting
2022
Frieze London 2022
Special Project
21st Century Herbal
Acrylic on silk – 28-metre hanging
2022
21st Century Herbal
Acrylic on silk – 28-metre hanging
2022
Detail – 21st Century Herbal
Acrylic on silk
2022
Detail – 21st Century Herbal
Acrylic on
silk
2022
Detail – 21st Century Herbal
Acrylic on
silk
2022
Max Mara Art Prize 2022,
Whitechapel Gallery, London
and
Collezione Maramotti, Italy
Installation – The Age/L'Età
Acrylic on silk, mixed media, animation
Whitechapel Gallery, London
2022
The Age/L’Età
Mixed media
Whitechapel Gallery, London
2022
Volcanic Landscape
Acrylic on silk
Whitechapel
Gallery, London
2022
Installation – The Age/L'Età
Acrylic on
silk, mixed media, animation
Collezione
Maramotti, Italy
2022
Installation – The Age/L'Età
Acrylic on
silk, mixed media, animation
Collezione
Maramotti, Italy
2022
Detail – The Age/L’Età
Acrylic on silk
2022
Detail – The Age/L’Età
Acrylic on silk
2022
CIRCA Project
Piccadilly Circus, 2021
Four Visions for a Hopeful Future
Digital animation
2021
Four Visions for a Hopeful Future
Digital
animation
2021
Ghost Calls
DCA Dundee, 2021
A Crash in Fast and Slow Motion
Acrylic on silk
2021
Installation – Ghost Calls
2021
Ghost Calls
Acrylic on silk
2021
Installation – Ghost Calls
2021
When Screens Break
Eastside Projects, Birmingham, 2020
Installation – When Screens Break
Acrylic on silk, acrylic on Voile, mixed media, digital animation
2020
Installation
– When Screens Break
Acrylic on silk,
acrylic on Voile, mixed media, digital animation
2020
Installation – When Screens Break
Acrylic on silk, acrylic on Voile, mixed media, digital
animation
2020
Detail – When Screens Break
Acrylic on
silk, acrylic on Voile, mixed media, digital animation
2020
When Screens Break
Digital animation
2020
Sounders of the Depths
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, 2019
Your Birth, The Epic Historical Moment You Can’t Remember
Mixed media and sound
2019
Installation – Sounders of The Depths
Mixed media and sound
2019
Installation – Sounders of The Depths
Mixed media and sound
2019
How is Your Own Death So Inconceivable?
Mixed media
2019
Works
Where Do We Come From?
Acrylic on silk
2021
In the End, the Beginning
Acrylic on silk
2021
Talking to Nature
Mixed media
2020
The World in Flames
Acrylic on silk
2021
Drawings
Approx. 38cm x 42cm
Approx. 38cm x 42cm
Approx. 38cm x 42cm
Approx. 38cm x 42cm
Approx. 38cm x 42cm
Approx. 38cm x 42cm
Approx. 38cm x 42cm
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Biography
Education
1993 – 1995 Royal College of Art, London, MA Painting.
1988 – 1991 Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, BA Fine Art (first class).
1987 – 1988 Kent Institute of Art & Design, Foundation in Art & Design.
Awards
2020 8th Max Mara Art Prize for Women
2018 Bryan Robertson Trust Award
1998 City of Rochester Award
1995-6 Rome Scholarship, British School at Rome
Forthcoming confirmed exhibitions
Solo
Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany solo exhibition (May 2026)
Centraal Museum Utrecht, NL, solo presentation (March 2025)
K21 Den Haag NL group exhibition (March 2025)
EMST National Museum of contemporary art, Athens, solo presentation (April 2025)
Compton Verney, UK, solo exhibition (July 2025)
Arnolfini, Bristol, UK, solo exhibition (October 2025)
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam NL group exhibition (solo presentation) November 2025
Group
2026
To The Stars! Outer Space and Inner Longing since Modernism Arp Museum, Germany (July 2026)
K21 Den Haag NL group exhibition (March 2025)
Selected solo exhibitions
2025
Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark
2024
‘Talking to Nature’ Museum Hundertwasser KHW, Vienna
Cremona Contemporanea, ‘The Tragedies’, Solo presentation, Teatro Ponchielli, Cremona, Italy
‘Visions’, Miucciaccia Project Space, Rome Italy
2023
Beiqiu Museum, Nanjing, China
'Model' Sligo, Ireland
KINDL, Kesselhaus, Berlin
'The Human Experience' Kunsthalle Giessen, Germany
‘21st Century Herbal’ Beiqiu Museum, Nanjing, China
Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
‘The Human Experience’ Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway
‘Magical Thinking’ Victoria Miro, Vortic Viewing Room (online)
‘The Age/L’Eta’ The Model, Sligo, Ireland
‘A Journey You Take Alone’ Kunsthalle Giessen, Germany
2022
‘The Age/l’Età’ Max Mara Art Prize solo exhibitions at Whitechapel Gallery, London UK
& Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
‘21st Century Herbal’ Special project, Frieze London
‘Let Poets Speak’ Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam NL
‘Meditations’ Petra Rinck Galerie, Dusseldorf DE
2021
‘Four Visions for a Hopeful Future’, CIRCA Project, Piccadilly Circus
‘Ghost Calls’ DCA Dundee UK
‘Ghost Calls and Meditations’, Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel CH
2020
‘When Screens Break’, Eastside Projects, Birmingham UK
‘Emma/Ursula’, Petra Rinck Galerie Dusseldorf DE
2019
‘Sounders of the Depths’, KM21 (GEM Kunstmuseum), The Hague NL
‘Your Own Authority’ Art Night 2019 Commission William Morris Gallery, London UK
‘Do You See Yourself Projected?’ Art Night 2019 commission, London UK
2018
‘Emma Talbot’, Nicolas Krupp Basel CH
‘21st Century Sleepwalk’, Caustic Coastal Salford UK
‘Woman-Bird-Snake’, Galerie Onrust Amsterdam NL
2017
‘Open Thoughts’, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, DE
‘The World Blown Apart’, Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam NL
‘Stained with Marks of Love’, Arcadia Missa, New York US
2016
‘Time After Time’, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf DE
‘Entrances and Exits’, Gallery 22, Bristol UK
‘Unravel These Knots’, Freud Museum, London UK
2015
‘Step Inside Love’, domobaal, London UK
‘Memories Turn to Dusk’, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE
2013
‘Means of Escape’, Mrs Rick's Cupboard at Primary, Nottingham, UK
2012
‘Bad Objects, Little Deaths’, Transition Gallery, London UK
2011
‘You Would Cry Too If It Happened to You’, Kusseneers Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium BE
The Solo Project, Basel (Kusseneers Gallery, Antwerp) BE
‘A Sheffield Song’, Bloc, Sheffield, UK
2010
‘Pictures From My Heart’, Transition Gallery, London UK
Selected group exhibitions
2023
‘Between Knowing and Understanding’ STUK Arts Center, Leuven, Belgium
‘Dawn of Humanity, Art in societies in transition in the early 20th and 21st centuries’, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
K21, Dusseldorf, Germany
‘Poly’, KINDL, Berlin, Germany
ARoS, Denmark ‘Between Knowing and Understanding’ Group exhibition STUK Arts Center, Leuven, Belgium
‘Dawn of Humanity, Art in Societies in Transition in the Early 20th and 21st Centuries’, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
‘Die unhintergehbare Verflechtung aller Leben (The Inescapable Intertwining of All Lives)’ Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany
‘Poly’, Kindl Museum, Berlin, Germany
‘Neue Gemeinschaften’, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
‘Images of Power’, Museum Rijswijk, Netherlands
‘Cycle, Portal, Path’ Nest, The Hague, Netherlands
‘At Heaven’s Edge, Visions’ Krona Museum, Uden, Netherlands
‘Kiss My Soul’, Dordrechts Museum, Netherlands
‘Irreplaceable Human? The Conditions of Creativity in the Age of AI’ Louisiana Museum, Denmark
‘Close Looking’, The David Roberts Art Foundation, London
‘The Cosmos Within’ ARoS, Denmark (December 2023- June 2024)
2022
‘The Milk of Dreams’ La Biennale di Venezia, Italy
‘Rosa Alcemico’, Minartextil, Villa Olmo, Como, Italy
‘Fantasmagoriana’ LIAF Biennale, Norway
‘Visions Or Waking Dreams’ Kunstverein Friedrichshafen DE
‘Fundamental Occurrences’ Nosbaum Reding, Brussels BE
2021
‘The Great Invocation’, Garage, Rotterdam NL
‘Delights of an Undirected Mind’, Lisson Gallery, London
‘Her Dark Materials’, Eye of the Huntress, online
‘A Temple Most August’, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto
2020
‘Winter Light’, Hayward Gallery, Southbank
‘Warp Threads’ Open Office Arcadia Missa London
‘Unstilled Life’ Ron Mandos Amsterdam
‘We Can’t Go Back’, Galerie Onrust Amsterdam
‘Displacement’, Petra Rinck Galerie
‘Not Without my Ghosts’, (2020-22) Hayward Touring, incl. Grundy Gallery Blackpool, Millenium Galleries Sheffield, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery Swansea,
2019
‘Starhawk’s Backyard’, Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam
‘Do You Keep Thinking There Must Be Another Way?’, Mimosa House, London
‘Just So Stories’, Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg
‘All That the Rain Promises’, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh
2018
‘From the Inside Out’, Drawing Room London
John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
‘Solitary Pleasures’, Freud Museum, London
‘Rumpy Bees & Pumpy Blooms’, Klosterpresse, Frankfurt
‘Journeys with The Wasteland’, Turner Contemporary Margate
‘Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by Her Writings’, Tate St Ives, Pallant House Gallery, Fitzwilliam Museum
‘Some Islands’, Coleman Projects, London
2017
CONDO Arcadia Missa, London
2016
MAC International Ulster Bank Prize, MAC Belfast
‘Telling Tales’, Collyer Bristow, London
‘Ghost On A Wire’, Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore
John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
‘Comic Tragics’, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
‘Endgame’, Turps Gallery, London
‘In Neuen Raumen’, Petra RInck Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany.
2015
DRKRM, DAM gallery, Germany.
Graphics Interchange Format: 25 years of Focal Point Gallery, Southend–on–Sea, UK
‘To Go Too Far’, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany.
‘In Miniature’, Nottingham Contemporary, UK
‘Birmingham Show’, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
2014
‘Mind the Gap’, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
‘Drawn Together: Artist as Selector’, celebrating 20 years of The Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, UK
Notte Bianca Valletta, City Lights, Valletta, Malta
The Manchester Contemporary (domobaal)
‘Art in The Home #2’, York, UK, Contemporary Art Society North
‘Detail’,H Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
‘Outrageous Fortune: Artists Remake the Tarot’,Exeter Phoenix, Hayward Touring, UK
2013
‘Atomic’, Transition Gallery, London
‘Art Britannia’, Madonna Building, Miami, USA
‘Drawing Now’, (Kusseneers Gallery), Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
‘Random House’, Arcadia Missa, London
‘All the Dead Dears’ WW Gallery, London
John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
‘I wish you well’, Vegas Gallery, London
2011
‘Me and My Shadow’, Kate MacGarry, London
‘Told’, Hales Gallery, London
‘The Life of the Mind’, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK (curated by Bob and Roberta Smith) including Louise Bourgeois, Lucia Noguiera, Sarah Lucas, Tracey Emin, Chris Ofili)
‘Outrageous Fortune’, Focal Point Gallery, Southend/Hayward Touring, curated by Andrew Hunt
‘Pulp Fictions’, Transition Gallery, London
Selected Collections
Louisiana Museum, Netherlands, Museum K21, Germany, David Roberts Collection, J. Sainsbury Plc, Saatchi Collection, Stephenson Harwood, TI Group, Unilever, University of the Arts London: Special Collections. Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Fries Museum NL, Arnhem Museum NL, KRC Collection NL, AzkoNobel NL,Bob and Susan Summers Collection USA, Waltham Forest Collection, City of Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Arts Council Collection, Guerlain Collection Paris, British Council Collection, Kunstsammlung NRW Dusseldorf, Studio Floridi Rome, Italy, Collezione Maramotti Italy.
Publications
'New Humans Memories Of The Future’, New Museum, 2026
‘Beyond Surrealism’, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2026
'Everything Is Energy', Arnolfini, Bristol, 2025
‘Emma Talbot ‘The Age/L’età’, Whitechapel Gallery, 2022
‘The Milk of Dreams’ Catalogue, La Biennale di Venezia, 2022
‘Vitamin D3’ Phaidon, 2021
‘Ghost Calls’ DAC Dundee, 2021
‘Sounders of The Depths’, K21/Galerie Onrust, 2019
‘From the Inside Out’, Drawing Room London, 2018
‘Drawing People’ by Roger Malbert Thames and Hudson, 2015
‘100 Painters of Tomorrow’ by Kurt Beers Thames and Hudson, 2014
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