Sarah Dobai Studio

Solo Exhibitions/ Projects

2022 The Donkey Field Artist’s Book Published by The Everyday Press
The Donkey Field, C.A.S.T, Helston
The Donkey Field screenings at BALTIC & Brewery Arts, Kendal

2021 The Donkey Field, Imperial War Museum & Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London
The Donkey Field & In Plain Sight, Glassyard Gallery, Budapest

2018 Bees in a Hive of Glass, photo-text & performance produced in collaboration with Tom McCarthy
TANK Magazine & Whitstable Biennale
Principles & Deception, Or Gallery, Vancouver

2016 Principles and Deceptions, Filet, London
The Copyists, Artists Publication, The Everyday Press

2015 Hidden in Plain Sight, performance / screening, Photographer’s Gallery, London
The Overcoat, Artist's Familiar Publication, Four Corners Books, Raven Row, London

2012 Twenty Second Hold, WORKS|PROJECTS, Bristol

2009 Studio/Location Photographs, WORKS|PROJECTS, Bristol

2008 Photographies et un film, Galerie Zurcher, Paris, France.

2006 Sarah Dobai; Phototographs & Filmworks, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, UK.
Short Story Piece. Changing Role Gallery, Naples, Italy.

2005 Short Story Piece. 1000 000mph, London.

2004 What we talk about when we talk about love, Galerie Zurcher, Paris

2003 Two on a Party, ArtLab, Imperial College, London UK

2002 Above the City, Artists Space, New York, USA

2001 Sarah Dobai, Entwistle, London, UK

2000 Sarah Dobai, Galerie Zurcher, Paris, France
Sarah Dobai, Patio de Escuelas, Imago 2000, Salamanca, Spain
Sarah Dobai, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago di Compostella, Spain
Yard, 16mm film projection, Platform Gallery, London, UK

1999 Billboards, Hayward Gallery, London, UK

1997 Camerawork Gallery, London, UK

1994 Studio Exhibition Project, Rodney Graham's and Shannon Oxsannen's Studio, Vancouver, Canada

Group Exhibitions

2023 Life’s More Important Than Art, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

2022
Home & Abroad, Olomuoc Museum of Modern Art Czech Republic
Vienna Contemporary, Austria

2018 Pillars of Modernity, Raven Row
Studio Exhibition, IASPIS, Stockholm
Now it is permitted, lead artist Bridget Smith Lincoln including Fiona Banner, Gavin Turk, Arnaud Desjardin, Margarita Gluzberg.

2016
Now it is permitted, The Swedenborg Society, London, other artists include Jeremy Deller, Cornelia Parker, Marina Warner, Michael Landy
Breather, Laura Bartlett Gallery, group exhibition with Brie Ruias, Alex Olson, Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Nov ‘16- Jan 2017, London.
No Fun without EU: Artists in Common, a one-day event on 25 September, Vyner St, London. Tom McCarthy, Celine Condorelli, Peter Fillingham
Hidden in Plain Sight, screening at Rencontres Internationales, Cinema and Contemporary Art, Gaite Lyrique, Paris and Berlin

2015
Deptford X, performance commission for visual arts festival.
Roaming Room inaugural exhibition, Marylebone WC1.
The Vanishing Point in History with Larry Achiampong, David Blandy, Matthew Buckingham, Lina Selander and Marco Poloni. Curated by Catsou Roberts, London

2014
CCA, Glasgow. Screening as part of LUX Criticical Forum alongside Emily Wardill, David Theobald, Oliver Laric, Hito Steyerl, & Mary Kelley Reid.

2013
9 Ways to Say Its Over, group show with Heidi Specker and Leigh Ledare. Farringdon Road, London.
Troubled Water, Kuandu National Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei. Group show with William Raban and Martin Newth.

2012
One Night Stand, Performance of Study, Spike Island, Bristol
London Open film installation and first performance of Study, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Human Made Things with Andy Holden at Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth.

2011
On the Nature of Things, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
New Photographic Practices, Beijing University Gallery, China
Ideal 13, Espace Croise, Roubaix, Lille, France
A Fire in the Master's House is Set with Adam Chodzko, Elizabeth Price, and Mark Dean, Chapter Arts, Cardiff
Peeping Tom, Dutch Institute Kunsthal KAdE, Netherlands

2010
Based on a True Story, ArtSway, New Forest, UK
Splitting in Two, Gimpel Fils, London
Peeping Tom curated by Keith Coventry, Vegas Gallery, London

2009
Rotate, Contemporary Art Society, London
Theatres of the Real, including Tom Hunter, Sarah Pickering and Nigel Shaffran FotoMuseum, Antwerp, Belguim.
Darkside II curated by Urs Stahel, FotoMuseum Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland
Now You See It, Café Gallery, Southwark Park, London

2009/10
Figuring Landscapes, touring exhibition and screening programme. Venues included Tate Modern, FACT Liverpool, Dundee Contemporary Arts & selected galleries across Australia.

2008
In the Society of London Ladies. Group show with Fiona Banner Ellen Cantor, Cullinan & Richards, Margarita Gluzberg, Sarah Jones and Elizabeth Price. Dispari Dispari, Reggio Emilia, Italy.
Limited, The Wharf Road Project, London, UK

2007
Cocktail, Galerie Zurcher, Paris.
Innocence & Experience, Gimpel Fils, London.

2006
In the Society of London Ladies, Miss China Beauty, Rue Francaise, Paris
75 Years of Collecting: Portrait of a Citizen. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver.
Simon and Sarah, Platform Gallery, London.
Triangle Squared, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London
Subjectivity and Feminism, Triangle Gallery, Chelsea College of Art & Design.

2005
LOOP, International exhibition of Video and film. Barcelona.

2004
Richard Billingham, Sarah Dobai, Valie Export, Joao Penalva Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany.

2003
Sodium Dreams. Group show including Pierre Huyghe, Sarah Morris, Martin Boyce, Knut Asdam. Bard College, Centre for Curatorial Studies, New York,
Quelque chose de soi, Galerie Zurcher, Paris, France

2002
September Horse, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

2003
Shimmering Substance (curated by Barry Schwabsky & Stephen Hepworth), Arnolfini, Bristol and Cornerhouse, Manchester

2004
Unscene, Gasworks, London, UK

2005
Multiple Store, London

2001
Scarlet and Black, Mellowbirds, London, UK
Breathless, Lombard Fried Gallery, New York, USA

2000
Anticorps, Galerie Zurcher, Paris, France
Black Box Recorder, British Council touring exhibition.

1999
Office of Misplaced Events, Lotta Hammer Gallery London, UK
Space 1999, The Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester, UK
Word enough to save a life, word enough to take a life, Clare College Mission Church, Southwark, London
Decoy: New British Photography, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
Another Girl, Another Planet (curated by G. Crewdson and J. Greenberg), Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, USA.

1998

Tres courts espaces de temps, Ecole Supérieure Nationale des Beaux Arts, France Biennale de L'image, Centre National de Photographie, Paris, France Sightings: New Photographic Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK

1997
Knowledge/Control/Power, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
New Contemporaries, Camden Arts Centre, London, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester; CCA, Glasgow, Scotland.
Experiment GB, Kunstverein, Trier and Kubus Gallery, Hanover, Germany

1997
Offsite project, Camden Arts Centre,London, UK
B.c.c. (curated by Andrew Renton), Cleveland and The Tannery, London

1995
Collections, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; Belken Gallery, Vancouver, CanWall to Wall, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

Selected Bibliography

2022                         Nell Whittaker, Interview with Sarah Dobai on The Donkey Field, TANK TV, Online Magazine Martin Herbert, The Donkey Field at Danielle Arnaud Gallery, Nov-Dec, Art Monthly. 2018                          Ellen de Watches, Whitstable Biennale, July- Aug, Art Monthly 2016
Anna Sanders, review of The Overcoat in Pylot
Sophy Ricketts, review of The Overcoat in PhotoMonitor, April
2015
Review by Christian Bernard of The Vanishing Point in History in ArtPress
2014
Preview of The Overcoat in Lit. Edition of Aperture Magazine, November in ArtPress
2012
Colin Glen, Art Monthly, November 2012
2011
Robin Lawrence, On the Nature of Things, Canadian Art
David Trigg, Exhibition Review, Art Review, Issue 53, October
2010
Interview with Mark Durden, Source, The Photographic Review, Issue No 64
David Trigg, Exhibition review, Frieze, October
2009
Tamar Yoseloff, Interview, Art World, July-Aug Issue
Jessica Lack, Guardian Guide, Saturday 2 May
Francesca Gavin, Elle, May Issue
David Trigg, Metro Newspaper, May
2008
Phillipe Dagen, Le Monde, December 20
Nicholas Velodre, 'Studio/Location Photographs', 8 November
2007
Rebecca Geldard, 'Innocence and Experience', Time Out, Fri 13 April
2006
Theo Hooper, Big Issue June 5 No.696
Tom Lubbock, Five Best Exhibitions, The Independent, 5 June
Preview Exhibitions, The Guardian Guide, May 27 – June 2
Paul Tebb, 'Quicker to the image' Source Photographic Review, Issue 48
2005
John Slyce, Short Story Piece' Portfolio, Contemporary Photography in Britain, No 42
2004
Charlotte Cotton, 'Contemporary Photography', Thames and Hudson
Marguerite Pilven, 'Sarah Dobai & Dan Hays', Paris Art.Com
2003
Phillipe Dagen, 'Quelque cose de soi', Le Monde.
Nicolas Lancri, 'Quelque chose de soi' Paris Art.Com.
Martin Herbert, 'Sarah Dobai' , featured artist. Frieze Art Fair catalogue.
2002
Archer, Michael. 'Sarah Dobai.' Artforum, January.
Exley, Roy. 'Sarah Dobai' Art Press, February: 76-77.
Smyth, Cherry. 'Teetering.' Source, Spring: 46-47.
Unscene, Guardian Guide and Time Out.
Ian Hunt, Shimmering Substance, Art Monthly. Dates
2001
Pinsent, Richard. 'Adroitly controlled…' The Art Newspaper, December.
Field, Marcus. 'Pick of the Galleries.' Independent on Sunday, 16 December.
Bush, Kate 'A small history of Britsh Photography, Arco catalogue.
200
Schultz, Deborah. 'Office of Misplaced Events.' Art Monthly, no.233, February.
Exley, Roy. 'Anticorps.' Contemporary Visual Arts, May.
1999
Morley, Simon. 'Word enough to save a life, word enough to take a life.'
Contemporary Visual Arts, vol. 24, June-July.
Morrisey, Simon. 'Sarah Dobai: Hayward Gallery, London.' Untitled, no.18.
'Loving the Hayward.' Blueprint, no.158, February.
Sand, Michael L. 'Another Girl, Another Planet.' Art News, June.
Aletti, Vince. 'Imitation of Life.' Village Voice (New York), 6 April.
Holmes, A.A. 'Holmes, on Another Girl, Another Planet.' Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York. Exh. cat.
Jones, Jonathan. 'Office of Misplaced Events.' The Guardian, December.
McClaren, Duncan. 'Office of Misplace Events.' Independent, 12 December.
Arning, Bill. 'The sisters of another planet.' Time Out (New York), 8-15 April.

1998
Morrissey, Simon. Sightings: New Photographic Art. ICA Publications
Tozer, John. 'Sarah Dobai and Tony Tasset, Camerawork.' Creative Camera, February-March.
Morrissey, Simon. 'Amnesia: Sarah Dobai, Rachel Lowe, Sophie Rickett, Elisa Sighicelli.' Contemporary Visual Arts, April-May.
Ireson, Ally. 'Slowing Down the Snapshot: Sarah Dobai and Rut Blees Luxembourg.' D-Tour 21, February.
Beausse, Pascal. 'Biennale de L'image, Paris.' Flash Art, no.203, November- December.
1997
'The thrill of the Chase.' Blueprint Magazine, vol.137, March.
Bonami, Francesco (editor). Echoes: Art in the Age of Endless Conclusions, December.
Crichton-Miller, Emma. 'New Contemporaries, '97.' Frank, October.
'New Art Brats.' The Face, May.
Kent, Sarah. 'B.c.c.:The Tannery/Cleveland.' Time Out (London), 12-19 February.
1996
'Ouverture: 'Sarah Dobai.' Flash Art, no.187, March-April.
1995
Gallo, Ruben. 'Sarah Dobai.' Poliester (Mexico), vol. 4, no 3.
1994
Klobucar, Andrew. 'Studio Exhibition: Converted Studio of S. Oksanen and R. Graham.' BOO, no.2, Vancouver, Verano.

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