Statement
I am an interdisciplinary artist working with sensation and the human body through textiles and digital media. My pieces are wearable sculptures and immersive installations that serve as devices for exploring cognitive functions, metaphysical relationships and mental health. Central to my practice is the goal of cultivating compassion, primarily through the tactile nature of my work and insistent use of crafting traditions and techniques. These traditions and techniques are rooted in cultural multiplicity stemming from my Egyptian-Levantine culture and upbringing as a first-generation American. More recently, I use diagramming as part of my process, using 3D computer modeling and CNC fabrication concepts, to assist in visualizing the spaces in which identity overlaps and collective experience happens.
Bio
Emmanuelle Chammah is a sculptor and designer based in Atlanta, GA. She holds a Master of Architecture I from Tulane University, earned in 2007.
Her early wearable artworks were exhibited and performed in New Orleans, LA and Brooklyn, NY. Following a Digital Sculpture Residency at the School of Visual Arts in NYC in 2010, she worked in New York and California for agencies in architecture, art fabrication, theater, and fashion. While building her art practice and working in the cultural arts, she developed expertise in community-based art.
Currently, she continues her radical use of fabric in various forms, including wearables, tapestries, and sculptures. She has completed residencies at The Hambidge Center in GA and the Penland School of Craft in Penland, NC. Her work has been showcased at the Oceanside Museum of Art, the Atlanta Contemporary, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, where she received the Juried Award for her piece "Super El-Ayn" in the Gathered V show. In 2022, her wearable pieces were featured in the "Coined in the South" exhibition at the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC. That year also marked her launch into installation art, with immersive textile installations at Shedspace at Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta and MICRO gallery at Westobou Gallery in Augusta, GA.
Emmanuelle Chammah
EDUCATION
Tulane School of Architecture, Master of Architecture I, New Orleans, LA 2007
Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture, Exchange & Internship, Paris, France 2006
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 (Upcoming) The Passion of a Very Few People Gather Under the Rubble), Tennessee Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2026 CARESCAPES, Echo Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
2024 In-Habit, Solo Installation curated by Jacob O’Kelley, MICRO gallery in Westobou Gallery, Augusta, GA
2022 Nomad Space, ShedSpace Solo Installation, Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2022 Diagrams of a Body in Space, Solo Exhibition, MINT, Atlanta, GA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Through Each Window a Little Light Flows, The Bakery, Atlanta GA
Atlanta Art Fair 2025, with The Bakery, Pullman Yards, Atlanta, GA
Tiger Strikes Asteroid Benefit Exhibition, NYC Crit Club, New York City, NY
The Summer Invitational, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Equinox, Cynthia Farnell Gallery, Atlanta, GA
EngageART, Duo Show at Spruill Art Gallery, Atlanta GA
2024 Studio Artist Program Artist’s Wall, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
Patterns of Place, Presented by Atlanta Contemporary at Atlanta Art Fair, Atlanta, GA
Unbound, The Pollinator Art Space at the Goat Farm, Atlanta, GA
Inextricably Linked, PolicyLink Equity Summit, Atlanta, GA
Thirty Summers, Open Call Group Exhibition, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
Please Touch The Art, Reeves House Visual Arts Center, Woodstock, GA
2023 Feels like Home, South River Review, South River Art Studios, Atlanta, GA
2022 One of Many, TSA_GVL at the Elizabeth Stone Harper Gallery at Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC
Extension of Self: what it means to be human in a digital world, Georgia Institute of technology, Atlanta, GA
Coined in the South, The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Field Companions, Tiger Strikes Asteroid at the Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
OBSOLETE, part of 5x5 Exhibition by Tiger Strikes Asteroid, National Museum, Berlin, Germany
Volcano Lovers, HAUNT/ Frontviews, part of 5x5 Exhibition by Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Berlin, Germany
Gathered V, Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, Atlanta, GA
Alter-Object, Tiger Strikes Asteroid GV, Greenville, SC
Arts Beacon 1 year Retrospective Show, Arts Beacon, Atlanta, GA
2021 MerriMINT Exhibition 2021, MINT, Atlanta, GA
Little Things Show, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Little Things Matter Sculpture Show, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS
Studio Artist Program Artist’s Wall, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
Postcard Pin-Up Show, MINT, Atlanta, GA
Chaos/Interconnectedness, Arts Beacon Gallery, Atlanta, GA
20/20 Vision: A Multi-Media Retrospective of Atlanta’s Collective Resistance in 2020, The Bakery, Atlanta, GA
2020 Night Of The Living Art, Oceanside Museum Of Art, Oceanside, CA
2018 10,000 Pianos, Art on 3rd Gallery, Chula Vista, CA (performance)
2010 New Faux Fashion Show, The House of Yes, New York, NY
SVA Digital Sculpture Residency Show, New York, NY
CCNY Interiority Complex Screening, New York, NY
2009 Uncommon Thread Wearable Art Show, Baton Rouge, LA
2008 Uncommon Thread Wearable Art Show, Baton Rouge, LA
RESIDENCIES
2026 Arrowmont Spring Pentaculum, Gatlinburg, TN, May
2022 Penland School of Craft, 2022 Winter Residency program, Penland, NC, January
2021 The Atlanta Contemporary, Studio Artist Program, Atlanta, GA, 3 year program
2020 The Hambidge Center, Artist in Residence, Rabun Gap, GA, December
2010 School of Visual Arts, Digital Sculpture Residency, New York, NY, June
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2025 Kevin Storer, “Layers of care: Devotion and detail in Emmanuelle Chammah’s ‘carescapes’,” ArtsAtl.org,
March 16, 2026, https://www.artsatl.org/layers-of-care-devotion-and-detail-in-emmanuelle-chammahs-carescapes/
2024 Jayla McDaniel, “Visitors can break all the rules at hands-on art exhibit in Woodstock,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Feb. 7, 2024. https://www.ajc.com/partner/visitors-can-break-all-the-rules-at-hands-on-art-exhibit-in-woodstock/FL2B2ILT4ZBWZP37ZMTT7TF3KY/
2022 Kat Eaves, “Field Companions at Atlanta Contemporary,” Burnaway.org, May 12, 2022. https://burnaway.org/daily/ts-gvl-acac/
2022 Donna Mintz, “Review: MOCA GA’s “Gathered V” reveals depth and diversity of Georgia artists,” ArtsAtl.org, February 22, 2022. https://www.artsatl.org/review-moca-gas-gathered-v-reveals-breadth-depth-diversity-of-georgia-artists/
2022 Noah Reyes, “Gathered V: Georgia Artists Selecting Georgia Artists at MOCA GA, Atlanta,” Burnaway.org, March 15, 2022. https://burnaway.org/daily/gathered-v/
2011 Leopold Lambert, “# EXHIBITIONS /// ECOLOGIAS CORRELATIVAS AT 319 SCHOLES GALLERY (NYC),” thefunambulist.net, October 28, 2011. https://thefunambulist.net/editorials/exhibitions-ecologias-correlativas-at-319-scholes-gallery-nyc
2011 Leila Nadir, “Plugging Art into the Environment,” Hyperallergic.com, October 25, 2011. https://hyperallergic.com/39019/ecologias-correlativas-319-scholes/
AWARDS
2024 Smart Growth Healing Our Highways Grant, Washington DC & Atlanta, GA (amount: $11,500)
2023 Nexus Fund Recipient, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA (amount: $5,000)
2022 Jury Prize Award, Gathered V Exhibition, MOCA GA, Atlanta, GA
2021 Award of Distinction, Little Things Matter Sculpture Show, USM, Hattiesburg, MS
2020 Red Bull Arts Atlanta Microgrant Program (amount: $5,000)
2007 Michael Kalil Endowment for Smart Design
2007 John William Lawrence Memorial Medal for Design Excellence
2007 AIA Scholarship Recipient
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2022 Eyes Can Only See So Much, Tiger Strike Asteroid hosting Eso Tilin, Greenville, SC
2011 Ecologias Correlativas, 319 Scholes Space, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Offshore, AIA Descours, New Orleans, LA
2010 Geto Beuys, Bushwick Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
2024 “When you grow up making Baklava: Hand Crafting, Slow Art and Practicing Patience,” Speaker, The Bakery at the Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
2016 “Meaningful Community Engagement,” Speaker, Smith Leadership Symposium, San Diego, CA
2016 “Advocacy and the Arts,” Panelist, Rising Art Leaders Creative Conversations, San Diego, CA
COMMISSIONS
2020 Private commission for performer, This little Lamb of Mine, wire and fabric mask
2018 Private commission for performers, Cosmic Cloaks, 5 jersey knit quilted capes for a musical performance.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2018- Public Art Program Consultant, Emma Chammah Consulting, Atlanta, GA
2016-17 Creative Community Development Director A Reason To Survive (ARTS), National City, CA
2015-16 Community Art Program Manager, A Reason To Survive (ARTS), National City, CA
2009-15 Freelance Project Manager & Architect, emma-emma design, Multi-city
2007-09 Project Architect, Trahan Architects, Baton Rouge, LA
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2023 Fellow, Creative Community Design, Atlanta Regional Commission, Atlanta, GA
2021- 2022 Member, Tiger Strikes Asteroid - Greenville, Greenville, SC
2021- 2024 Councilmember, Beltline Public Art Advisory Council, Atlanta, GA
2020 Juror, Art on the Beltline, Atlanta, GA
2018 Fellow, Arts Leaders of Metro Atlanta, Atlanta Regional Commission, Atlanta, GA
2017 Member, Americans For The Arts
coming soon FUTURE ODDITIES
Acknowledgements
This work would not exist if it was not for all the great organizations & people I had the opportunity to work with:
Trahan Architects
Eyebeam Technology by artists
MakeFun Studios and The House Of Yes
e-flux
The Brooklyn Guild
Arch Production & Design
Aggregate Architecture + Design
A Reason To Survive (ARTS)
The Pomegranate Center
Williston Enterprises
ADMI Inc.
Chimera+
