Emma Prempeh b. 1996 is a British artist with Ghanaian and Vincentian heritage based in London.

Beginning with an enquiry into home and its shifting meaning across generations, Prempeh’s practice continues to expand toward a wider exploration of the diasporic experience, where belonging is shaped as much by the past as by the circumstances of the present. Her work attends to the subtle and often intangible ways that belonging is formed and connections are continually reconfigured through distance and lived experience. Prempeh is increasingly interested in how personal and inherited histories inform our relationships to places we have left behind, the places we inhabit and the places we may never fully know. She uses layered surfaces and schlag metal, a brass alloy of copper and zinc imitative of gold leaf, in her often large scale paintings. Over time the metal oxidises, producing gradual visual changes that introduce an element of impermanence into the work. She also experiments with projected still and moving imagery, extending her enquiry beyond the painted surface towards more immersive and experiential encounters.

Prempeh completed a BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths University of London in (2019) and an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art under the LeverHulme Trust Arts Scholarship in (2022). Select solo exhibitions include: "The Domain of the Stranger", Perrotin, Paris, France (2026); "Wandering Under a Shifting Sun", Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK (2024); "In Presence and Absence", Ordovas Gallery, London, UK (2023); "You were, you are and you always will be", Tiwani Contemporary, Lagos, Nigeria (2022). Select group exhibitions include: "Handpicked: Painting Flowers from 1900 to Today", Kettles Yard, Cambridge, UK (2026); "Conversations", Walker Art gallery, Liverpool, UK (2024).

Prempeh won the Ingram Collection Purchase Prize (2019), the Alumno Space Bursary award (2019) and was a participating artist in Bloomberg New Contemporaries (2019). Prempeh won the Valerie Beston Trust Arts award in (2022).