Emma Bergman


Recent Projects
    [     ] Protection
    If It’s Not A Dream
    What I Would Call the Feeling
    Rocko
    Say You’re Sorry
    Visitation

Older Work
    The Yellow Wallpaper   
    Too Day
    Territorial
    Household
    Life Histories of Hamtramck
    THIS CLOSE
    Prints


Emma Bergman is an
interdisciplinary artist
and organizer.
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Emma Bergman (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist and organizer. They make films, performances, installations, and archives, with a focus on relationship-based practices.

Emma believes in a future without prisons and attempts to further that vision in their work. Their collaborations with incarcerated artist James Jones center conversations between people on the inside (prisons and jails) and the outside (the free world). Emma and James’ recent film Rocko premiered at DOC NYC in 2023. Emma also organizes with the Prison Solidarity Project, a word-of-mouth network that has connected more than 700 incarcerated people with pen pals. In 2022, they co-curated Visitation, an exhibition featuring the work of system-impacted artists at All Street Gallery (NYC).

In 2014, Emma co-founded the multimedia performance collective Call Your Mom. The collective makes immersive works that invite audiences to connect interpersonal experiences to larger social/political dynamics. CYM facilitates workshops on collaboration, coalition building, and performance strategies which have been hosted by the School of Making Thinking, Lumina Studio Theatre, the University of Michigan, and the University of Indiana. Their recent work has been shown at Gylleboverket (Gärnäs, Sweden), Centro NAVE (Santiago, Chile), Cucalorus Film Festival (Wilmington, NC), and the 2018 and 2019 Janet and Walter Sondheim Semifinalist Exhibition (Baltimore, MD).  

Emma holds a BFA in Interarts Performance from the University of Michigan. They received the Pritzker Graduate Fellowship to attend the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where they are pursuing an MFA. They were a Y10 Community Member at NEW INC, an incubator for art and technology led by the New Museum.

emmasbergman95 [at] gmail [dot] com

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