Selected Publications, Interviews, etc.
On Mark Alice Durant’s “Maya Deren” for Los Angeles Review of Books
“Full Stop Call Them Paintings” for X-TRA Online 2022
“Out Past the Eye-Mark” for X-TRA Spring/Summer 2021
The Rise of the Clickbait Restaurant (The Culture Journalist Podcast)
“When you cut into the present, the future leaks out.” for X-TRA Online
Little House of Flowers: Al Larvick National Grant
“AUTOFICCIÓN Laida Lertxundi + Emma Kemp In Conversation,” Now Instant
Urgency Reader 1 & 2 edited by Paul Soulellis
REMOTE/CONTROL, East of Borneo
“GUSHGUSHGUSH,” Reading Machines by Tiger Dingsun
Ghost Ops: Counterfeit Kitchens in the Pandemic Age (PDF)
“Wednesdays at 5PM,” iTi Thesis Sampler
Blue Pool, Cecelia (iTi Press, 2018)
Rockhaven: A History of Interiors feat. Johanna Hedva and Suzanne Scanlon
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Emma Kemp is a professor at Otis College of Art & Design in Los Angeles. She received an MFA in Writing from California Institute of the Arts and a BA from Central Saint Martins in London, U.K. She designed and led the CalArts Summer Institute.
Her current project is an authorized critical biography of musician Conor Oberst.
Awards include a CalArts Faculty Research Grant; Utah Humanities Research Fellowship; Image-Text-Ithaca Residency; and the Ithaca College New Voices award. Her work has been exhibited, hosted and screened at institutions in the U.S. and Europe.
b.1988 London, U.K.
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For more information please contact:
ekemp@calarts.edu
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Los Angeles, 2023
On Mark Alice Durant’s “Maya Deren” for Los Angeles Review of Books
“Full Stop Call Them Paintings” for X-TRA Online 2022
“Out Past the Eye-Mark” for X-TRA Spring/Summer 2021
The Rise of the Clickbait Restaurant (The Culture Journalist Podcast)
“When you cut into the present, the future leaks out.” for X-TRA Online
Little House of Flowers: Al Larvick National Grant
“AUTOFICCIÓN Laida Lertxundi + Emma Kemp In Conversation,” Now Instant
Urgency Reader 1 & 2 edited by Paul Soulellis
REMOTE/CONTROL, East of Borneo
“GUSHGUSHGUSH,” Reading Machines by Tiger Dingsun
Ghost Ops: Counterfeit Kitchens in the Pandemic Age (PDF)
“Wednesdays at 5PM,” iTi Thesis Sampler
Blue Pool, Cecelia (iTi Press, 2018)
Rockhaven: A History of Interiors feat. Johanna Hedva and Suzanne Scanlon
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Emma Kemp is a professor at Otis College of Art & Design in Los Angeles. She received an MFA in Writing from California Institute of the Arts and a BA from Central Saint Martins in London, U.K. She designed and led the CalArts Summer Institute.
Her current project is an authorized critical biography of musician Conor Oberst.
Awards include a CalArts Faculty Research Grant; Utah Humanities Research Fellowship; Image-Text-Ithaca Residency; and the Ithaca College New Voices award. Her work has been exhibited, hosted and screened at institutions in the U.S. and Europe.
b.1988 London, U.K.

For more information please contact:
ekemp@calarts.edu
