Emma Hood
FINE ARTIST BIO
Emma Hood is an American-British fine art photographer based in Idaho, currently represented by Idaho Art Gallery in Boise, Idaho, and Pivot Gallery in Rosseau, Canada.
Hood's work begins with place, not through the people who inhabit it, but through what a landscape holds on its own: shape, texture, negative space, and the quality of light that makes a moment stand out. Drawing on the legacy of the New Topographics movement and the layered visuals of David Hockney's "Joiners," she explores the evolving relationship between place, time, and perception, examining how both our surroundings and our inner selves transform over time.
What starts as photography becomes something else in her studio. After a shoot, Hood edits photographs in batches, then hand-groups images to build each collage within Photoshop, layering and blending multiple photographs, working with transparency, blending modes, and image transforms until the composition feels right. The natural softness of the original images meets something more rigid in the process: hard geometric lines, deliberate repetition, fragmented forms pressed together. That tension is something she seeks out, the landscape as she photographed it, and the landscape as memory and perception remake it, sitting side by side in a single image.
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Hood earned her BFA from Boise State University and has exhibited her work in numerous galleries, including Evermore, Trueblood Gallery, Initial Point Gallery, Gallery 55, The Common Well, Ming Studios, Idaho Art Gallery, Pivot Gallery, and The Aberystwyth Arts Centre. She was an inaugural Show and Tell resident at The Common Well in 2024, a six-month artist residency funded by the Alexa Rose Foundation. Her work has received significant recognition, including awards from the National Federation of Press Women, SkillsUSA, and the Boise Squared Photography Contest.
Passionate about fostering creative growth, Hood has volunteered and served as a judge for the SkillsUSA photography competition, contributed to Catalyst Arts Collaborative, and worked with the Boise Art Museum as both a summer art camp assistant and a curatorial intern. Through these roles, she continues her commitment to education and community engagement.
