EDUCATION 

1993-1995  

Royal College of Art, M.A. Painting

1988-1991  

Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, B.A. Fine Art (First Class)

1987-1988  

Kent Institute of Art & Design, Foundation in Art & Design


ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2020  

When Screens Break Eastside Projects, Birmingham

   

Emma Talbot at DCA Dundee November 2020

   

Kunsthalle Giessen Germany September 2020

2019  

Sounders of The Depths, GEM Kunstmuseum voor Actuele Kunst, The Hague NL

   

Art Night Commission, William Morris Gallery London

   

Emma Talbot, Petra Rinck Galerie Düsseldorf

2018  

21st Century Sleepwalk, Caustic Coastal, Salford

   

Emma Talbot Nicolas Krupp Basel

   

Woman-Bird-Snake Galerie Onrust Amsterdam

2017  

Open Thoughts Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Germany

   

Stained With Marks Of Love, Arcadia Missa, New York USA

   

The World Blown Apart, Galerie Onrust Amsterdam

2016  

Time after Time, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf

   

Entrances & Exits, Gallery Twenty Two, Bristol, UK

   

Unravel These Knots, Freud Museum, London

2015  

Step Inside Love, domobaal, London

   

Memories Turn to Dusk, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany

2013  

Means of Escape Primary, Nottingham

2012  

Bad Objects, Little Deaths, Transition Gallery, London

2011  

You Would Cry Too If It Happened To You, Kusseneers Gallery Antwerp

  

The Solo Project, Basel (Kusseneers Gallery, Antwerp) 

  

A Sheffield Song, Bloc, Sheffield

2010  

Pictures From My Heart, Transition Gallery, London


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

2020

Starhawk's Backyard, Galerie Onrust Amsterdam NL

2019

All That The Rain Promises, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh

   

Do You Keep Thinking There Must be Another Way? Mimosa House London

  

The Dark Night of The Soul, Lewisham Art House London

2018

From the Inside Out, Drawing Room London

  

Solitary Pleasures, Freud Museum, London

  

Journeys Through The Wasteland, Turner Contemporary Margate

  

Solitary Pleasures, Freud Museum, London

  

Rumpy Bees and Pumpy Blooms, Klosterpresse, Frankfurt

  

Virginia Woolf, Tate St Ives, (touring in 2018 to Pallant House Gallery, Fitzwilliam Museum)

  

Some Islands, Coleman Projects, London

2017

CONDO Arcadia Missa, London 

  

Art Cologne (Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam)

2016

MAC International Ulster Bank Prize, MAC Belfast, Northern Ireland

  

Telling Tales, Collyer Bristow, London

  

Ghost On The Wire, Objectifs, Centre For Photography and film, Singapore

  

John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

  

Art Cologne (Petra Rinck Galerie)

  

Charlie Dutton Gallery, Beijing, China

  

William N Copley, Emma Talbot, Ina Van Zyl, Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam, Netherlands

  

Comic Tragics, Art Gallery Of Western Australia, Perth

  

Endgame, Turps Gallery, London

  

In Neuen Raumen, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf

2015

DRKRM, DAM Gallery, Berlin

  

Graphics Interchange Format : 25 Years of Focal Point Gallery, Southend on Sea

  

To Go Too Far, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf

  

In Miniature, Small Collections Room, Nottingham Contemporary

  

Birmingham Show, Eastside Projects, Birminhgam UK

2014

Mind The Gap, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf

  

Drawn Together, Artist as Selector, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings

  

The Manchester Contemporary (domobaal)

  

Detail, H Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand

  

Outrageous Fortune, Artists Remake the Tarot, Focal Point Gallery and Exeter Phoenix, Hayward Touring

2013

Atomic, Transition Gallery London

  

Art Britannia, Madonna Building, Miami 

  

Drawing Now, (Kusseneers Gallery), Carrousel Du Louvre, Paris 

  

Random House Arcadia Missa London

  

All The Dead Dears WW Gallery, London

2012

John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery Liverpool

  

I Wish You Well Vegas Gallery, London

  

The Perfect Nude, Wimbledon Space, London, SPACEX, Exeter 

2011

Me And My Shadow, Kate MacGarry, London

  

TOLD Hales Gallery, London 

  

The Life Of The Mind The New Art Gallery, Walsall (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 

  

Pulp Fictions, Transition Gallery, London 

2010

Party! The New Art Gallery, Walsall

  

Dough & Dynamite, (curated by KobetsVasey)

  

McAslan + Partners, London


FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 

1996  

Bob and Susan Kasen Summers Studio Award

1995  

Rome Scholarship, British School at Rome


COLLECTIONS

Saatchi Collection, David Roberts Collection, University of The Arts, London, J. Sainsbury PLC, Unilever, City of Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery,Ministry of Heritage, Stephenson Harwood

Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Bob & Susan Summers Collection of British Art, Fries Museum NL, Arnhem Museum NL, KRC Collection NL, AkzoNobel Art Foundation NL, Guerlain Foundation Paris
Arts Council Collection