Born in 1989 in Encinitas, CA, USA
Lives and works in Los Angeles

Emma  WEBSTER

Emma Webster’s landscape paintings teleport viewers into the otherworldly. The places she depicts, convincing and hallucinatory, merge spatial expectations with mystifying fantasy. The paintings come from a hybrid sketching-sculpting process within screen-space. Webster first constructs scenes in virtual reality, which she then embellishes with theatrical illumination, to create natural vistas that relish in artifice, drama, and distortion. Of her VR models, Webster says: “Working from within the still-life is more akin to how we go about the world. There can be no ‘outside.’”

Emma Webster (b. 1989) is a graduate of Stanford University (BA, 2011) and Yale University, where she received an MFA in Painting in 2018. In 2021, Webster published Lonescape: Green, Painting, & Mourning Reality, a collection of musings on landscape and image-making in an increasingly digital world.
 

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education

2018
MFA in Painting, Yale School of Art

2011
BA in Art Practice, Stanford University

solo shows

​2023
Intermission, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA 
The Dolmens, Perrotin, Tokyo, Japan

2022
Illuminarium, Perrotin, Seoul, South Korea

2021
Ready the Lanterns!, Stems Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Green Iscariot, Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY
Weltlandschaft, Carl Kostyál, London, United Kingdom

2019
Arcadia, Diane Rosenstein, Los Angeles CA

group shows

2023
Time Travel: Italian Masters through a Contemporary Lens, Petzel, New York, NY
das gelbe Licht 6 Uhr nachmittags, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany

2022
BodyLand, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Fire Figure Fantasy: Selections from ICA Miami’s Collection, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, FL
Figurative Vocabularies: Recent Acquisition, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA
Life in an Ivory Tower curated by Jack Siebert, New York, NY (pop-up)
Natural World, Part II, Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY

2021
Sweet Jane in Fields of Daisies curated by Joan Tucker, Phillips (online)
The Talking Stone, Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles, CA
The Ridiculous Sublime, SFA Advisory, New York, NY
Stockholm Sessions, Carl Kostyál, Stockholm, Sweden

2020
Show me the Signs (Auction for AAPF's #SayHerName campaign), Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Animal Kingdom, Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY (online)
All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go: New American Paintings Alumni, Steven Zevitas (online)

2019
Untitled, Booth B27, Diane Rosenstein, Miami, FL
Plastic Garden, Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York, NY
New American Paintings 2019 Pacific Coast Review, Zevitas Marcus, Los Angeles, CA
LA Painting, Museum of Art & History, Lancaster, CA
Your Favorite Artist’s Favorite Artist, Joshua Liner, New York, NY

2018
Re_Arrange, Mana Contemporary, New Jersey, NJ
Spirited Densities, Thomas Erben, New York, NY
Heads / Tails, Next to Nothing, New York ,NY
Way Out Now, Diane Rosenstein, Los Angeles, CA
Calico Sunset, Pt.2 Gallery, Oakland, CA
Wild Seed, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

2016
First Year Show, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
Deal With It, Woskob Gallery with Maake Magazine, Penn State, PA
Origins, Spinnerei (Pilotenkueche), Leipzig, Germany

2015
Crank, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
First Person Once Removed, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA
She Wolf, Present Works Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Friends with Karma, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA

2014
Endless Summer, Bergelli Gallery, Larkspur, CA

public collections

Insitute of Contemporary Art, Miami
Pérez Art Museum Miami
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
Columbus Museum of Art
Yuz Museum Shanghai
Xiao Museum, Rizhao, China
Groeninghe Art Collection, Brugges, Belgium

awards

2022
Jericho Fellowship, Venice, Italy 

2018
Anderson Ranch Painting Residency, Snowmass CO

2017
Royal Drawing School at Dumfries House, Scotland

2015
Vermont Studio Center Residency, Johnson VT

2014
Ox-Bow Artist Residency, Saugatuck MI

2011
Raina Giese Award in Creative Painting

2010
Undergraduate Academic Research Angel Grant for Painting

2006
Academy of Art University Award for Best Figure Drawing

  • September 2, 2022
    Artnews — 2 PAGES

  • August 29, 2022
    Whitewall — 5 PAGES

  • August 23, 2022
    W Magazine — 9 PAGES

  • December 28, 2021
    Whitewall — 6 PAGES

  • February 1, 2019
    Artforum — 1 PAGE

EMMA WEBSTER ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH

EMMA WEBSTER ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH

Nick DOYLE, Danielle ORCHARD, Jean-Michel OTHONIEL, Paola PIVI, Emily Mae SMITH, Josh SPERLING, Emma WEBSTER

ARTIST TALK: EMMA WEBSTER AT PERROTIN TOKYO

ARTIST TALK: EMMA WEBSTER AT PERROTIN TOKYO

Emma WEBSTER

"THE DOLMENS" AT PERROTIN TOKYO

"THE DOLMENS" AT PERROTIN TOKYO

Emma WEBSTER

PERROTIN X META: DIGITAL CREATION TOOLS AT SERVICE OF CONTEMPORARY ART

PERROTIN X META: DIGITAL CREATION TOOLS AT...

Emma WEBSTER

TALK BETWEEN EMMA WEBSTER AND JADE KEUNHYE LIM

TALK BETWEEN EMMA WEBSTER AND JADE KEUNHYE LIM

Emma WEBSTER

Postcards for places you can’t visit: Emma Webster, landscapes, and VR

Postcards for places you can’t visit: Emma...

Emma WEBSTER

Emma Webster: Illuminarium at Perrotin Dosan Park

Emma Webster: Illuminarium at Perrotin Dosan Park

Emma WEBSTER

PERROTIN SEOUL OPENING 2022

PERROTIN SEOUL OPENING 2022

Emma WEBSTER

podcasts

PERROTIN

Closed for installation

Perrotin Los Angeles is closed for installation through Friday, April 5.

We look forward to welcoming you at our next exhibition, Art 2 by MSCHF. Join us at the opening on Saturday, April 6, 2024 between 3pm to 8pm! The exhibition will continue through June 1.
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