EMMA BERGMAN
Placement ScreeningIf It’s Not A Dream
[ ] Protection
Rocko
Say You’re Sorry
Visitation
Forgivability Scale
Too Day
Emma believes in a future without prisons and attempts to further that vision in their work. They organize with the Prison Solidarity Project, a word-of-mouth network that has connected more than 700 incarcerated people with pen pals. Rocko, a film they directed with incarcerated artist James Jones, premiered at DOC NYC in 2023. 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 with Elif Cadoux, Sophie Goldberg, and Mia Massimino. For 10 years, CYM facilitated workshops on collaboration, coalition-building, and performance strategies hosted by the School of Making Thinking, Lumina Studio Theatre, the University of Michigan, and the University of Indiana. Their performance work has been shown at Gylleboverket (Gärnäs, Sweden), Centro NAVE (Santiago, Chile), Cucalorus Film Festival (Wilmington, NC), the Sondheim Art Prize Semifinalist Exhibition (Baltimore, MD), and more.
They were recently a Y10 Community Member at NEW INC, an incubator for art and technology affiliated with the New Museum. Emma received the Pritzker Graduate Fellowship to attend the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where they are finishing their MFA. They hold a BFA in Interarts Performance from the University of Michigan.