Emilia Azcarate studied Fine Art at the Central Saint Martins School of Art in London in the eighties. She participated in the La Llama International Artists Workshop in Venezuela and in the Artist-in-Residence program CCA7 in Trinidad. She won the first National Prize for Visual Arts Arturo Michelena in 1999, in 2006 she was awarded the Cisneros Fontanals Foundation Grant Program (CIFO), and in 2016 she participated in the Latin American Roaming Art (LARA) Residency Program in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. She lives and works in Madrid. Azcárate has had individual exhibitions at Henrique Faria, New York; Museo de Historia Mexicana, Monterrey; 80m2 Livia Benavides, Lima; Miami Biennale, Miami; Galería Distrito 4, Madrid; Tiempos Modernos, Madrid; Faría+Fabregas Galería y Periférico Caracas, Caracas; Casa de América, Madrid; Caribbean Contemporary Arts 7, Puerto España; el Museo Alejandro Otero y la Sala Mendoza, Caracas; and the Centro Cultural de España, Santo Domingo, Domincan Republic. Her work has also been included in group exhibitions at institutions including Fundación Juan March Madrid, MDE 15, Encuentro Internacional de Arte de Medellín; Matadero, Madrid; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana; Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Americas Society, New York; Museo de Arte Moderno Cuenca, Ecuador; and the following biennials: the São Paulo Biennial; Prague Biennial and Havana Biennial. Her work is represented in collections such as the Jorge Pérez Art Collection, Miami; Cisneros Fontanals (CIFO) Collection, Miami; Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York; Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas; Banco Mercantil Collection, Caracas; Berezdivin Collection, Puerto Rico; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Caracas; Banesco Foundation Collection, Caracas; Bank of Spain Collection and Coca Cola Foundation, Madrid; amongst others.