Exhibitions

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
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
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
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, USA 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 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. 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 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.
2000	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.
Publications   2016            The Copyists, published by Everyday Press, London
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 Figuring Landscapes, edited by Catherine Elwes, Eu Jin Chua and Stven Ball, British film and video artists study collection. Darkside II - Photographic Power and Violence, Disease, and Death Photographed, Steidl Press
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
Residencies and Awards 2017            IASPIS, Stockholm 2016            Arts Council Research and Development Award for upcoming film work
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
Teaching
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.