Emanuel de Carvalho
Emanuel de Carvalho works across painting, sculpture, and sound. He holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art alongside a PhD in Medicine from the University of Amsterdam and postgraduate studies in neuro-ophthalmology at University College London. Recent exhibitions include Galerie Molitor (2025, solo 2026); Perrotin, Paris (2025); Hauser & Wirth, Somerset (2024); X Museum, Beijing (2024); Duarte Sequeira, Braga and Seoul (2024, solo 2023); Nir Altman, Munich (2024), Gathering, London (2023, solo 2024, 2026); Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai (2022) and The Sunday Painter, London (2022).
Lives and works in London, UK
Solo and Group Exhibitions
2026
How to Disappear Completely, Jetlag Projects, London, UK
2025
of Malabou, Galerie Molitor, Berlin, Germany
Portals to Unwritten Time, Perrotin, Paris, France
Through a Glass, Darkly, Galerie Molitor, Berlin, Germany
2024
Transferring Domain, Gathering in Collaboration with Nir Altman, Munich, Germany code new state, Gathering, London, UK Present Tense, Hauser and Wirth, Somerset, UK Portrait of a Man, X Museum, Beijing, China
2023
Support Structures, Gathering, London, UK KIAF with Duarte Sequeira Gallery, Seoul, South Korea Art Busan with Duarte Sequeira Gallery, Busan, South Korea Echoes Across Surfaces, Duarte Sequeira Gallery, Braga, Portugal
2022
RAW, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, China Crush, Grove Berlin, Berlin, Germany Between the bridge and the door, Pictorum Gallery, London, UK new state, Guts Gallery, London, UK Turps Gallery On-site final show, London, UK Queer augmented, VO Curations x Snap, London, UK And this skin of mine, to live again a second time, Guts Gallery, London, UK Virile, House of St Barnabas, London, UK Zoom in, Prior Art Space, Berlin, Germany Salon, The Sunday Painter, London, UK
2021
De nos jours, Osnova Gallery (Moscow, Russia) Off-site programme during Frieze, London, UK AORA:III, AORA Space, London, UK Medium Rare, Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK
Gathering Exhibitions
2024
Selected Press
25 Jun 2025
Emanuel de Carvalho is included in The Columbist's Challenging Time and Space: July Exhibitions’ Highlights in Berlin, surrounding his inclusion in Galerie Molitor's group exhibition Through a Glass, Darkly.
15 Dec 2024
Emanuel de Carvalho is included in ArtCube’s 2024 Discoveries Report, highlighting the top 100 early-career artists in 2024/2025.
9 Nov 2024
Gathering's booth at Art Cologne features in Artsy's fair round-up
5 Sept 2024
Frieze features transferring domain at Nir Altman in collaboration with Gathering among best shows to see during Various Others, Munich
9 May 2024
Emanuel de Carvalho profiled by Artsy for his solo show code state new on show at Gathering









