Born in Liverpool... lived in Liverpool.... lived in Toronto....
...currently living and working in London

Contact
jemma (dot) egan (at) gmail (dot) com

Education
2015 Royal College of Art, MA Sculpture
2005 Liverpool School of Art and Design, BA Fine Art 

Selected Shows
2024 Become an Object – Curated by Martin Holeman and Jonathan Michael Ray, Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Penzance. 
2023 Baggage Claim – Curated by Georgia Stephenson and Rosalind Wilson, Staffordshire Street Gallery, London
2023 Is the image even human? – Curated by Jasone Miranda-Bilbao, Instituto Cervantes, New Delhi
2022 State of Play – Curated by Brooke Benington at Canary Wharf, London
2021 Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer
2021 It Glows Light – Maze Collective, Delhi
2020 Habitual – Castor Projects, London
2020 Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer
2019 Family Member – Lily Brooke, London (solo)
2019 P is for Portrait – Curated by Division of Labour – The Art House, Worcester
2018 Colloquy – Periclo, Wrexham
2018 Every Thing – Assembly Point, London
2017 Turning to dust – Assembly Point, London (solo)
2017 The 15 Cmdments – Curated by Sid and Jim – The Wrong Biennale, online
2017 Identify your limitations, acknowledge the periphery – Vitrine Gallery, Basel
2017 Looking at Art Looking at People – Curated by Division of Labour, Modern Clay, Birmingham
2017 Ultra Sunrise – Curated by It's kind of hard to explain and MILK, SET studios, Bermondsey
2017 Where work happens – Art Lacuna, London (solo)
2017 Sell Yourself – East Street Arts, Leeds
2016 Bloomberg New Contemporaries – ICA, London
2016 Bloomberg New Contemporaries – The Bluecoat, Liverpool
2016 And so it was, and so it is – Turf Projects, Croydon
2016 Gettin' The Heart Ready – The Royal Standard, Liverpool
2016 dip – CBS Gallery, Liverpool
2016 Skin Deep – Seize Projects at STCFTHOTS, Leeds
2016 It means more to me than most people – Invites, Zabludowicz Collection, London (solo)
2016 Is it Heavy or Is it Light? – Assembly Point, London
2016 Digiverb – Cornerstone Gallery, Liverpool
2015 It was a dark and stormy night – Two Queens, Leicester
2015 Cascading Relevant Information – Open Eye Gallery, a project by CBS Gallery, Liverpool
2015 Finals – Raw Art, Tel Aviv
2015 It was a dark and stormy night – Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
2015 Two hundred acres – Pumphouse Gallery, London
2015 Common Bodies – East Street Arts, Leeds 
2015 Screensaver – Dyson Gallery, London
2015 Faux Sho – Curated by (It's All) Tropical, Assembly House, Leeds
2015 Pause Patina – Camden Arts Centre, London
2014 Lore Schuerman: Ruimte voor De Kleine Dingen – Middelheimmuseum, Antwerp
2013 Suh-peer-ee-er – *Queenspecific, Toronto (solo)
2011 Space Exchange – Aid & Abet, Cambridge
2011 Fireplace Gallery – Come To Ours, Plymouth
2011The Space Between Here and There – VSVSVS, Toronto (solo)
2011 Eh? – The Gallery, Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth (solo)
2010 Swiss Dogs – Trade Gallery, Nottingham (solo)
2010 Global Studio – The Bluecoat, Liverpool
2009 Miscellany – Outlet Gallery, Manchester 
2009 All Change  – Rogue Project Space, Manchester
2008 Next Up – The Bluecoat, Liverpool
2006 Haven't You Grown? – The Royal Standard, Liverpool

Screenings and events
2022 Mobile Cinema – Deptford X Fringe (curated)
2019 arebyte on screen – arebyte, London 
2018 Sit Off – The Offy at CBS Gallery, Liverpool 
2017 What a time to be alive – Art Rotterdam, New Art Section, with Tžužjj, Liverpool
2017 Video Social Club – Plymouth Art Weekender 
2017 Big Break – Majorie Barrick Museum, Las Vegas (curated)
2017 NAWKI – Curated by East Bristol Contemporary, 12ocollective, London (and other venues)
2017 Stored in the Depths – Curated by Luke Nairn, Isthisit (online)
2016 Off to Mahogany – Curated by Canan Batur, Rye Lane, London
2016 The Eating Machine – Seen Through, Safehouse, London
2016 Video Social Club, Plymouth Art Weekender
2016 DVD is dead – Curated by Luke Nairn, Instagram, (online)
2015 Film Open – ICA, London 2015
2015 Video de fantaisies – Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
2015 LAUGH Magazine #1 – Publication and launch exhibition, Cheviot House, London
2015 Film Open – Castlefield Gallery, Manchester 
2015 Best In Show – Same Shit Different Day, London
2015 Video Social Club – Plymouth Art Weekender
2015 Manchester Contemporary – with Castlefield Gallery
2015 Film Open – Tramway, Presented by Lux Scotland, Glasgow
2015 Film Open – East Side Projects, Birmingham
2015 OFFM – Frankfurt
2015 Flux - Alserkal Avenue, Dubai
2015 Film Open – Spike Island, Bristol  
2015 Work On The Line – Metal, Liverpool 
2015 Latching Firm – Camden Arts Centre, London 
2015 Sunday Spot – South London Gallery, London 
2014 One I made earlier – Curated by Jude Crilly, Half A Dozen Projects, London
2014 Trivial BBQ – Flat Time House
2014 Hottentottententententoonstelling – Dyson Gallery, London
2012 Ivory Tickler – Mercer Union, Toronto 
2010 Top Dog – Art In Central Park, Plymouth
2010 No Soul For Sale – Tate Modern, London 

Residencies
2018 SILF // Shelf Wales 
2017 Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
2015-16 Supersmashers Artist in Residence, South London Gallery
2015-16 Tate Britain and Tate Modern, Schools and Teachers Artist in Residence
2013 ALLCAPS Artscape Gibralter Point, Toronto
2011 VSVSVS summer residency, Toronto

Collections
Royal College of Art
REMET Collection

Other
2012-13 – VSVSVS member of the collective, Toronto 
2007-10 – The Royal Standard Co-Director, Liverpool 

Awards
2021 Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice
2019 A-N Artist Devleopment Bursary
2019 Arts Council England – Project Grant
2017 Arts Council England – Grants for the Arts
2016 Artist International Development Fund – Arts Council England, The British Council
2015 REMET Casting Prize
2014 Gilbert Bayes Scholarship 
2014 Helen Chadwick Scholarship
2014 Royal College of Art Fine Art Bursary 
2014 South Square Trust Bursary
2013 The Eaton Fund