Emma Hood
FINE ARTIST BIO
Emma Hood is an American-British fine art photographer based in Idaho. Her work is rooted in a single enduring question: how do place and identity transform one another over time? Through collage and photo manipulation, she traces the quiet, accumulating ways that where we are shapes who we become, and in turn, how who we are shapes what we see. She is currently represented by Idaho Art Gallery in Boise, Idaho, and Pivot Gallery in Rosseau, Canada.
In the studio, photography becomes something else entirely. Hood edits photographs in batches, then hand-groups images to assemble each collage, layering and blending photographs, playing with transparency and repetition 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.
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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 is held in private and public collections throughout the United States and Canada.
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.
