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Emma Bergman


Projects
    Rocko
    Visitation
    Say You’re Sorry
    Forgivability Scale
    The Yellow Wallpaper   
    Too Day
    Territorial
    Household
    Life Histories Of Hamtramck
    THIS CLOSE
    The Skriker
    Prints


Emma Bergman (she/they)
is an interdisciplinary artist
and organizer based in
Brooklyn, NY. 
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Visitation: Abolitionist Creations For and Far From Home (2022) is a gallery show I organized in collaboration with Lauren Matrka and Caren Holmes at All Street NYC. The exhibition featured work by incarcerated artists, formerly incarcerated artists, and artists impacted by the prison industrial complex.

Featured artists: Harold Beard, Billie Allen, Kristina Bivona, James Jones, Mon M, Grace Rother, and Rodney Slayton.

Movement Shoes by James Jones Fighting To Live, While Waiting To Die! by Billie Allen (work-in-progress) Untitled (jewelry box made of commissary items) by Rodney Slayton Untitled (jewelry box made of commissary items) by Rodney Slayton Abortion Altar by Kristina Bivona Abortion Altar by Kristina Bivona Domme by Kristina Bivona Master’s XxX by Kristina Bivona Abolition Quilting Bee by Grace Rother and collaborators Fighting To Live, While Waiting To Die! by Billie Allen (work-in-progress) Fighting To Live, While Waiting To Die! by Billie Allen (work-in-progress) Facing the Truth by Billie Allen Bond by Mon M Untitled (Rikers interiors on commissary sheets) by Harold Beard Untitled (Rikers interiors on commissary sheets) by Harold Beard

“Altering the boots that were intended to walk the yard on the feet of the oppressed and powerless, and making them beautiful with powerful presentations of color and messages of hope is a form of resistance that really resonates with my comrades inside.” - James Jones

To request a commission from one of the inside artists, click here. To begin corresponding with someone inside, click here.

Press: Advocates use fashion to promote abolition and illustrate the toll of incarceration (Tamar Sarai for Prism Reports)
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