Emma Talbot (b1969) lives and works in London and Italy. She studied at Birmingham Institute of Art & Design and the Royal College of Art. She was the winner of the 8th Max Mara Art Prize for Women and was included in ‘The Milk of Dreams’, curated by Cecilia Alemani, at the 59th Venice Biennale.
Solo exhibitions include (Upcoming) Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL, USA, (2026); (Upcoming) HAM Helsinki, Finland (2026); (Upcoming) Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany (2016); (Upcoming) Arnolfini, Bristol (2026); Compton Verney, UK (2025); ‘Human/Nature’ solo presentation EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece (2025); ‘Mother Earth’ solo presentation ‘Good Mom/Bad Mom’ Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands (2025); ‘Are You a Living Thing that’s Dying or A Dying Thing that’s Living?’ Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark (2025) ‘Talking to Nature’ Museum Hundertwasser KHW, Vienna, Austria (2024); Cremona Contemporanea, ‘The Tragedies’, Solo presentation, Teatro Ponchielli, Cremona, Italy (2024) ‘Visions’, Miucciaccia Project Space, Rome Italy (2024)
Selected Group Exhibitons include Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam NL (2025); ‘New New Babylon’ K21 Den Haag NL (2025); ‘Drawing the Unspeakable’, Towner Eastbourne (2024); Fabric of Life’, Vortic X Koko, Paul Smith, London (2024); The Nature of Things’ Castor Gallery, London (2024); ‘Positions’ ABN AMRO Art Space Amsterdam (2024); ‘True Colours’ Akzo Nobel Art Foundation Collection in Kunstmuseum den Haag NL (2024); True Colours’ Akzo Nobel Art Foundation Collection in Kunstmuseum den Haag (2024); ‘Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood’ Hayward Touring : Arnolfini Bristol, MAC Birmingham, Millenium Galleries Sheffield, DCA Dundee (2024).
Highlights and Collections In 2020, Emma Talbot was the winner of the 8th Max Mara Art Prize for Women. In 2018 she was awarded the Bryan Robertson Trust award. In 1995-6 she was presented with the Rome School Scholarship; supporting her study in Rome. Talbot’s work can be found in a plethora of important and private collections, which include; Arnhem Museum (Netherlands), Art Gallery of Western Australia (Perth, Australia), Arts Council Collection AzkoNobel (Netherlands), British Council Collection City of Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (UK), Collezione Maramotti (Italy), David Roberts Collection Dodrechts Museum (Netherlands), Fried Museum (Netherlands), Guerlain Collection (Paris, France), KRC Collection (Netherlands), Kunstsammlung NRW Dusseldorf (Germany), Louisiana Museum (Denmark), University of the Arts London: Special Collections (UK), Waltham Forest Collection (UK).