Curriculum Vitae
Solo Exhibitions/ Projects 2021 The Donkey Field, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London 2020 The Donkey Field, Merzbarn, Cumbria 2018 Bees in a Hive of Glass, phot poem and live performance commisioned by TANK and Whitstable Biennale Principles & Deception, Or Gallery, Vancouver 2016 Principles and Deceptions, Filet, London |
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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. |
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 |
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 |
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2018 Studio Exhibition, IASPIS, Stockholm Now it is permitted, Lincoln including Fiona Banner, Gavin Turk, Arnaud Desjardin, Margarita Gluzebrg. 2016 Now it is permitted, The Swedenborg Society, other artists include Jeremy Deller, Cornelia Parker, Marina Warner, Michael Landy, October 2016, London Breather, Laura Bartlett Gallery, group exhibition with Brie Ruias, Alex Olson, Ketuta Alexi- Meskhishvili, November 2016, London. No Fun without EU: Artists in Common, a one-day event on 25 September, Vyner St, London. Other artists included Tom McCarthy, Celine Condorelli, Lucy Reynolds, Peter Fillingham Hidden in Plain Sight, screening at Rencontres Internationales, Cinema and Contemporary Art, Gaite Lyrique, Paris and Berlin |
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2015 |
Deptford X, performance commission for visual arts festival. |
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. |
2012 |
One Night Stand, Performance of Study, Spike Island, Bristol Human Made Things with Andy Holden at Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth. |
2011 |
On the Nature of Things, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada |
2010 |
Based on a True Story, ArtSway, New Forest, UK |
2009 |
Rotate, Contemporary Art Society, 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. |
2007 |
Cocktail, Galerie Zurcher, Paris. |
2006 |
In the Society of London Ladies, Miss China Beauty, Rue Francaise, Paris |
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, USA |
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 |
2000 |
Anticorps, Galerie Zurcher, Paris, France |
1999 |
Office of Misplaced Events, Lotta Hammer Gallery London, UK |
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 |
1997 |
Offsite project, Camden Arts Centre,London, UK |
1995 |
Collections, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; Belken Gallery, Vancouver, CanWall to Wall, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada |
2016 Anna Sanders, review of The Overcoat in Pylot Sophy Ricketts, review of The Overcoat in PhotoMonitor, April |
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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. 03/11/11 |
2011 |
David Trigg, Exhibition Review, Art Review, Issue 53, October |
2010 |
Interview with Mark Durden, Source, The Photographic Review, Issue No 64 |
2009 |
Tamar Yoseloff, Interview, Art World, July-Aug Issue |
2008 |
Phillipe Dagen, Le Monde, December 20 |
2007 |
Rebecca Geldard, 'Innocence and Experience', Time Out, Fri 13 April |
2006 |
Theo Hooper, Big Issue June 5 No.696 |
2005 |
John Slyce, Short Story Piece' Portfolio, Contemporary Photography in Britain, No 42 |
2004 |
Charlotte Cotton, 'Contemporary Photography', Thames and Hudson |
2003 |
Phillipe Dagen, 'Quelque cose de soi', Le Monde. |
2002 |
Archer, Michael. 'Sarah Dobai.' Artforum, January. |
2001 |
Pinsent, Richard. 'Adroitly controlled…' The Art Newspaper, December. |
2000 |
Schultz, Deborah. 'Office of Misplaced Events.' Art Monthly, no.233, February. |
1999 |
Morley, Simon. 'Word enough to save a life, word enough to take a life.' |
1998 |
Morrissey, Simon. Sightings: New Photographic Art. ICA Publications. |
1997 |
'The thrill of the Chase.' Blueprint Magazine, vol.137, March. |
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. |
2016 The Copyists, published by Everyday Press, London |
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2014 |
The Overcoat published by Four Corners Books, Raven Row. |
2013 |
Troubled Water, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, TaiPei, UAL |
2011 |
On Nature, Kamloops Art Gallery, British Columbia |
2010 |
La Photographie Contemporaine, Michel Poivert, Flammarion Presse |
2009 |
Theatres of the Real, FotoMuseum & Photoworks, Antwerp & UK |
2006 |
Sarah Dobai, Photographs & Filmworks, Kettles Yard, Cambridge |
2005 |
Short Story Piece, Monograph, 1 000,000mph, London |
2004 |
Contemporary Photography as Art, Charlotte Cotton, Thames and Hudson |
2003 |
Two On A Party, artist's book, ArtLab 24, London, UK |
2001 |
Nothing ed. Ele Carpenter & Graham Gussin, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art |
2000 |
Sarah Dobai, Monograph, 2000, Salamanca University Press, Spain |
2017 IASPIS, Stockholm 2016 Arts Council Research and Development Award for upcoming film work |
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2009/10 |
Commissions East Jaywick Martello Tower residency, Essex, UK |
2008 |
International Recollets Residency and Commission, Paris |
2006 |
London Artists Film and Video Award from Film London, funded by the Arts Council |
2004-6 |
Residency at Delfina Studios, London |
1999 |
In and Out of Touch, Budapest, funded by the British Council |
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Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art & Design since 2005 and Visiting Artist at the Royal College of Art, St Martins, Goldsmiths, Middlesex University, Newcastle University, Norwich School of Art among other colleges. |