b. 1976, Glasgow, Scotland.
Education
2008 Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, UK.
1998 Clare College, University of Cambridge, UK.
Awards
2010 Shortlisted for a Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network Production Award.
2007 Red Mansion Foundation Art Prize.
2004 Runner-Up for the Rolex Mentor & Protégé Arts Initiative Apprenticeship in Theatre Arts.
Fellowships/Stipends
2011 Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral, Bad Ems, Germany.
2010 Film & Video Umbrella Artist Development Programme.
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
2011 Chewing the Scenery
Swiss Off Site Pavilion, 54th International Exhibition of Art – la Biennale di Venezia, Italy.
Iceploitation
Kunstforening Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway.
Nothing Personal
Marcelle Alix, Paris, France.
2010 Públicos y Contrapúblicos
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo (CAAC), Seville, Spain.
Whose Map Is It? New Mapping by Artists. (Commission)
Iniva, London, UK.
2009 ArtSway Open 2009
ArtSway, Sway, UK.
Indirect Speech
Night Sessions, Intermediae, Madrid, Spain.
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.
Residencies
2010 Camden Arts Centre, London, UK.
2007 Beijing International Artists Platform, Beijing, China.
Performance Space, Sydney, Australia.
Talks & Presentations
2010 Serpentine Gallery Map Marathon
Serpentine Gallery, London, UK.
Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa & Gayle Chong Kwan
Iniva (Institute for International Visual Art), London, UK.
Crossing Boundaries
Royal Geographical Society, London, UK, 2 June 2010.
Artist’s Writings & Conference Papers
‘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 Unpublished conference paper presented at Crossing Boundaries,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