1976 Born in Glasgow, Scotland
Education
2008 Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. MA Fine Art with Distinction.
1998 Clare College, University of Cambridge. BA (Hons) English. Upper Second..
Awards
2007 Red Mansion Foundation Art Prize.
Runner-Up for the Rolex Mentor & Protégé Arts Initiative Apprenticeship in Theatre Arts.
Fellowships/Stipends
2008 Lux Associate Artists Programme, UK.
2004 Arts Council London Emerging Artists Bursary, UK.
Solo Exhibition
2008 A Brush for Robben Island
Butcher's Projects at Rokeby Gallery, London, UK.
Group Exhibitions, Festivals & Screenings
2010 Públicos y Contrapúblicos
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo (CAAC), Seville, Spain.
LUX Genealogies (Online Project: http://www.lux.org.uk/blog/lux-genealogies)
Whose Map Is It? New Mapping by Artists. (Commission)
Iniva, London, UK.
2009 ArtSway Open 2009
ArtSway, Sway, UK.
Night Sessions: Indirect Speech
Intermediae, Madrid, Spain.
East End Collaborations Tenth Anniversary Platform
Live Art Development Agency/Queen Mary, University of London, UK.
Complex Financial Instruments
S1/Salon '09, S1 Artspace, Sheffield, UK.
'Where is Now?'
Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany.
2008 Red Mansion Art Prize Exhibition
Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London, UK.
2007 Kinomuseum: 7 Guided Tours
53rd International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany. (exh. cat.)
Spill Festival of Performance, London, UK. (Commission)
2006 Bang Hwang Ha Num Byul (Wandering Star): British-Korean Landscape
Gana Art Gallery, Seoul, South Korea. (exh. cat.)
For One Night Only
Camden Arts Centre, London, UK.
2005 The Kinship International Strategy on Surveillance & Suppression
Conical Inc. Gallery, Melbourne, Australia. Touring in 2008 to the Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK.
Ephemeral Cities: Deptford X Open Exhibition
Deptford X Festival, London, UK.
Residencies
2010 Camden Arts Centre, London, UK.
2007 Beijing International Artists Platform, Beijing, China.
Performance Space, Sydney, Australia.
Artist’s Writings
‘On Inappropriate Use’. Unpublished conference paper presented at Crossing Boundaries,
Royal Geographical Society, London, UK, 2 June 2010.
‘(W)ohnort’, in Tobias Kaspar (ed.), Used Future #19: Professione. Reporter., Basel:
Used Future, 2007. Edition of 100.
Bibliography
Deborah Schultz, 'Whose Map Is It? New Mapping by Artists: Iniva, London', Art Monthly,
no. 338 (July/August 2010), pp. 32 - 3.
Patricia Bickers, ‘Selected Pieces: A Brush for Robben Island (2008) by Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa’, Catalogue,
Issue 3, March 2010.
Sacha Craddock, 'Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa', Wandering Star, Seoul: Gana Art Gallery, 2006, pp. 30 - 33.
Collections
Gana Art Gallery, Seoul, South Korea