Dr. Emilia Telese – List of exhibitions and events

Selected Solo Exhibitions and Events

  • 2025: Dust Forest, Solo event, Royal Festival Hall, London, UK.
  • 2025: Terre Incise, Solo Exhibition, Museo Ecclesiastico Diocesano Museum, Troia, Italy.
  • 2025: Emilia Telese, Framsækin Eyding/Progressive Decay, Solo Exhibition, Grafiksalurinn - The Icelandic Printmakers Association, Reykjavík, Iceland.
  • 2024: World Rebirth Online Performance, World Rebirth Day, Fondazione Michelangelo Pistoletto, Biella, Italy.
  • 2024: Emilia Telese, presented by Rotary Club Foggia Capitanata, Civic Museum, Foggia Italy.
  • 2023: Emilia Telese, Hringfari, Solo Exhibition, Hotel Berjaya Marina, Reykjavík, Iceland.
  • 2023: Emilia Telese, Ferna, Solo Exhibition, Grafiksalurinn - The Icelandic Printmakers Association, Reykjavík, Iceland.
  • 2022: Emilia Telese, Hringfari - The Circumnavigator, Solo Exhibition, Gallery Grásteinn, Reykjavík, Iceland.
  • 2020: Heimsálfa, Performance Broadcast, World Rebirth Day, Fondazione Michelangelo Pistoletto, Biella, Italy.
  • 2019: Dissipation I, Performance, Brighton, UK.
  • 2017: Il Canto dell'Emigrante, Multimedia Installation, TESTT Space, Durham, UK.
  • 2013: Everyday Icons, Solo Show, Rizhoma Gallery, Milan, Italy.
  • 2006: Emilia Telese, Solo Exhibition, Contemporary Visual Art Projects - Vestjylland, Denmark.
  • 2003: Solo Exhibition, Artsway Gallery, New Forest, UK.

Selected Duo and Group Exhibitions and Events

  • 2025: selected for the Ironbridge Printmaking Competition, Ironbridge, UK.
  • 2025: selected for the Curated Hang, Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, UK.
  • 2025: Art without Borders Group Exhibition, Alcozer &J, Florence, Italy.
  • 2025: Panel Discussion, group exhibition, The Bomb Factory, Archway, London.
  • 2025: Breathing Space, Printmaking series, at the Dust 9th High Latitude Dust Workshop, Agricultural University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland.
  • 2024: Selected prints, International Original Prints Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, London, UK.
  • 2024: Selected prints, The RBSA Prize, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Birmingham, UK.
  • 2024: Selected prints, The Summer Exhibition, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Birmingham, UK.
  • 2024: Selected prints, IS/POL Printmaking Exhibition, Fine Arts Academy, Warsaw, Poland.
  • 2023: Luna Rossa, Print and Performance Installation, Surroundings/Environment, curated by Magma, Palazzo Grifoni, San Miniato, Italy.
  • 2023: Selected print, Curated Hang, Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, UK.
  • 2023: Selected prints, IS/POL Printmaking Exhibition, SÍM - The Association of Icelandic Artists, Reykjavík, Iceland.
  • 2022: Artstops 2022, Public Art Exhibition, 80 Public Bus Stops, Durham, UK. Funded by Arts Council England.
  • 2022: Samkoma - Gathering IG, Íslensk Grafík - The Association of Icelandic Printmakers, Group Exhibition, IG Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland.
  • 2022: Migraciones Pedagogicas (Circular Museum), with Isidro Lopez-Aparicio, Portable Installation about European Migration, Museo Lazaro Galdiano, Madrid, Spain.
  • 2021: Torg Listamessa 2021, Art Fair, Galleri Körpulfsstaðir, Reykjavík, Iceland.
  • 2021: Artstops 2021, Public Art Exhibition, 80 Public Bus Stops, Durham, UK. Funded by Arts Council England.
  • 2020: LockdownRanga, Online Art Event, UK/Iceland.
  • 2020: Artstops 2020, Public Art Exhibition, 80 Public Bus Stops, Durham, UK. Funded by Arts Council England.
  • 2015: The Yak Attitude, Underdog Gallery, London, UK.
  • 2013: Drawing the Line, Drawing Exhibition, Millennium Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall, UK.
  • 2013: Life Begins at Land's End, Participatory Public Art Performance, commissioned by Michelangelo Pistoletto, Rebirth Day, Musee du Louvre, Paris, France.
  • 2013: Wavy Banners, Public Art Project, Contemporary Visual Art Projects - Vestjylland, Denmark.
  • 2011: Beyond The Commission, Installation, The Gallery, Art Institute Bournemouth, UK.
  • 2011: Freud Museum 25th Anniversary Exhibition, London, UK.
  • 2010: Calm Bafferment, The Language of Gesture, Speaker, Non-Verbal Communication and Art Seminar, MoMA Museum of Modern Art Oxford, UK.
  • 2010: Perfect 10, Limited Edition Photographic Prints, Artists Associates Arts Council England - Leverhulme Foundation Commission, Artsway Gallery, Sway New Forest, UK.
  • 2009: Dreamland, Conceptual Installation Performance in Collaboration with Isidro Lopez-Aparicio, Tifariti Art Festival, Liberated Territory of Western Sahara.
  • 2009: Start Point HOT! Florence Art Factory, Group Show, Experimental Art Centre, Italy.
  • 2008: Viaggi - Journeys, Exhibition curated by Emilia Telese and Rebecca Marshall, Shot By The Sea Film Festival, Electric Palace Cinema, Hastings, UK.
  • 2008: The Ring of Fire, Installation, Blank Gallery, Brighton, The Brighton Festival, UK.
  • 2007: Performance for Future Time and Tide, Debate, Cultures of the Future, Shot by The Sea Film Festival, Hastings, UK.
  • 2007: The Enemy, Installation Performance, ZKM Centre for Contemporary Arts, Karlsruhe, Germany.
  • 2007: The Rice Project, Public Art Installation with Community Participation, Brighton/Scotland, UK. A project by Edoardo Malagj, Italy, Emilia Telese, Guyan Porter, and Chris Biddlescombe, Scotland (The Edible Construction Company); Jubilee Library, Brighton, UK.
  • 2006/7: Emilia Paranoica, Live Art and Video Installation, Paranola Touring Show, Leeds City Art Gallery - Leeds, Focal Point Gallery - Southend on Sea, Freud Museum, London, UK.
  • 2006: Can We Break the Speed of Light?, Video and Digital Art Exhibition, Hastings, UK.
  • 2006: Rogo, Performance Installation, Freeshout Festival, Prato, Italy.
  • 2006: Life Circle, Environmental Installation, Arti Nel Bosco, Pordenone, Italy.
  • 2006: Curfew, Performance and Installation, City Running, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton Festival, UK.
  • 2005: Sleepwalking, Video Installation, Prg:Me, Centro Cultural Telemar, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • 2005: Self-Portrait with Victorian Mirror and Superman, Photography, Completely Naked, Campbell Works Gallery, London, UK.
  • 2005: Life of a Star and Sleepwalking, Performance and Video Installation, The New Forest Pavilion, Palazzo Zenobio, 51st Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.
  • 2004: The Big Art Challenge, Live Performance, Art-Based Reality TV Programme, FIVE, UK.
  • 2004: Sleepwalking, Video Installation, [re:]collection - Documenting Memory and Remembering, Chashama Gallery, New York, USA.
  • 2003: Limited Edition Prints, Multiples, Permanent Gallery, Brighton, UK.
  • 2003: Dark Symphony, Collaboration with Tim Mark Didymus, 250,000-watt Acoustic Ambience, Donaupark, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria.
  • 2003: Gesture III, Interactive Performance, Labculture, Bridport, Dorset, UK. (www.pva.org.uk).
  • 2002: Parallel Lives, Photography Installation, Collaboration with Igor Baskin, Ekaterinburg Museum of Modern Art, Siberia, Russia.
  • 2002: Stage Land, Freeshout Festival of New Contemporary Art, Prato, Italy.
  • 2002: Stage Land, Collaboration with Tim Mark Didymus, Devolve into II, Live Web-Stream Video and Sound Installation, Intermedium II Festival, ZKM (Zentrum fur Kunst Und Medientechnologie) Media Centre, Karlsruhe, Germany.
  • 2001: Transmit II, Interactive Performance with Liquidstatic, CYNET2001 Festival for Computer Aided Art, Dresden, Germany. (www.body-bytes.de, www.liquidstatic.org).
  • 2000: Rename Real Name, Sound Installation with Tim Mark Didymus, Generative Art 2000 Conference, Milan, Italy.
  • 2000: Transmit, Interactive Biofeedback Installation Performance, III Festival of Experimental Art & Performance, Manege Institute Of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg, Russia.
  • 2000: TM, Generative Sound Piece with Tim Mark Didymus, Werkleitz Biennale of Electronic Arts, Werkleitz, Germany. (www.werkleitz.de, www.kulturserver.de/home/TM).
  • 2000: 10x5, Multimedia Installation-Performance, Hastings Museum, Hastings, UK.
  • 1999: Mecha-Voices, Online On-Site Sound Installation with Tim Mark Didymus, Sound Drifting, Ars Electronica 99 Festival of Electronic Arts, Linz, Austria.
  • 1999: Out of the Blue, Performance, Queen's Park, Brighton Festival, Brighton, UK.
  • 1998: Life of a Star, Performance, Live Art Weekend, Fabrica Gallery, Brighton, UK.
  • 1995: Kaben, Performance & Design Installation, at "Ecologica 95", International Ecology Expo, Fortezza da Basso, Florence, Italy.

Participatory & Engagement based commissions and projects

  • 2011: Workshop facilitator for art & performance for adults with profound mental and physical disabilities, Making Art Work, Hastings.
  • 2011: The Coat Garden, participatory education and exhibition project involving children with and without disabilities, installation at Interaction MK, Milton Keynes.
  • 2010: Four Senses, participatory sensorial Olympic walk. Cultural Olympiad Open Weekend Commission, Artsway Gallery, Sway New Forest.
  • 2009: Dreamland, conceptual installation performance with Isidro Lopez-Aparicio and the community of inhabitants of the Tifariti refugee camp, for Art Tifariti 2009 international event for the liberation of the Saharawi tribes of Western Sahara, presented at “The 28th State - European Borders in an Age of Anxiety” symposium, Tate Britain, Millbank London.
  • 2007: The Rice Project, public art installation with community participation, Brighton/Scotland, a project by Edoardo Malagi, Italy, Emilia Telese, Guyan Porter and Chris Biddlecombe, Scotland (The Edible Construction Company); Jubilee Library, Brighton.
  • 2000: Le Quattro Stagioni, multimedia arts residency, Preston Primary School nr Canterbury, funded by Year Of the Artist Awards, Arts Council England.

 Awards

  • 2014: AHRC (Arts And Humanities Research Council) fully funded four-year PhD scholarship, University of Warwick and University of Loughborough.
  • 2007 - 2010: Artists Associates, Artsway Gallery, New Forest, awarded by the Leverhulme Foundation.
  • 2006: The Royal Rice Pavilion, grant from Brighton & Hove City Council.
  • 2003: Sleepwalking, at Brighton Photobiennial 2003, award by Arts Council England.
  • 2003: Sleepwalking, at Artsway, New Forest, award by Arts Council England.
  • 2002 Gesture, PVA Medialab, bursary award by Arts Council England; an interactive multimedia performance residency bursary for PVA Medialab (www.pva.org.uk).
  • 2001: Transmit II, CYNET2001, award by The British Council.
  • 2000: Le Quattro Stagioni, multimedia arts residency, Preston Primary School nr Canterbury, funded by Year Of the Artist Awards, Arts Council England.
  • 2000: Car Park, for "10x5", Hastings Museum, awards by Arts Council England South East, Millennium Festival Awards and Hastings Borough Council.

Reviews and media

BBC2, Current TV, Five, RAI (Italian national TV), BBC Southern Counties Radio Hampshire, The Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian, The Times, El Pais, The St Petersbourg Times, The Reykjavík Grapevine, La Nazione, The Brighton Argus, A-N magazine, Art Monthly, Art Review, Arts-All, New Zealand, The Latest, The West Sussex Gazette, www.webartisti.it, www.nettime.org, www.neural.it, www.absolutearts.com, www.newsitaliapress.it and other online, paper and media sources.

Emilia Telese’s work featured in Kuppers, P (2007) The Scar of Visibility: Medical Performances and Contemporary Art (Minnesota University Press 2007 ISBN: 0-8166-4653-8).

More information about any of the above can be requested to Emilia Telese at emilia@emiliatelese.com.