Emma Hart FRSS

In 2023 Hart created the permanent artwork Hear Now! for the public entrance of the new UCL East building in London, and in 2024 Hart will realise a major permanent installation for Modern Art Oxford. 

In 2022 she was awarded a Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award. In 2017 she won the Max Mara Art Prize for Women in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery, and in 2015 she was awarded a Paul Hamlyn Foundation award for Visual Art.

Major solo exhibitions include Big Time (Hospitalfield, Scotland 2023 and Frieze Sculpture, London 2022),  Big Mouth, (Barakat Contemporary, Seoul, 2022); Banger (Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, 2018), Mamma Mia! (Whitechapel Gallery, London, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, 2017), Giving It All That (Folkestone Triennial 2014) and Dirty Looks (Camden Arts Cente, 2013). 

She has participated in group exhibitions, notably presenting work in the ceramic survey Strange Clay at the Hayward Gallery (London, 2022-23); Somerset House (London, 2021); Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund (Dortmund, 2019); Kunsthaus Hamburg (Hamburg, 2018). Hart co-curated and took part in the major sculpture group show, Poor Things at Fruitmarket (Scotland, 2023).

Hart was included in the 2017 Phaidon publication Vitamin C, a  global survey of 100 of today's most important clay and ceramic artists.

Hart’s work is held in public collections including the Arts Council Collection, The Government Art Collection and the British Council Collection. 

Hart studied Fine Art at Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, graduating with an MA (2004), and received a PhD degree in Fine Art at Kingston University (2013).