Biography
Born in Winchester, U.K. Education
1994-96 MA Fine Art, Central St Martin's College of Art and Design 1990-93 City and Guilds of London Art School Solo Exhibitions
2008 'Crossing', curated by Tania Duvergne, Dumbo Arts Center (DAC), New York 'Places of Laughter and of Crying', curated by Sacha Craddock and Graham Gussin, Bloomberg SPACE, London 2005-2006 'Panoptiscope', curated by James Putnam, The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL, London 2005 'Parallel Lines and Other Stories', curated by Alena Williams, Bootlab, Berlin 2004 Momenta Art, New York 2003 'where would you rather be...', FLAT, Paradeisos Design Center, Art Basel, Miami 2003 'Double Trouble', FLAT, New York 2001 'Forty Nights', Hales Gallery, London 1999 Galleri Wallner, Malmö, Sweden 1999 Hales Gallery, London Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool, UK FIDMarseille, documentary film festival, Marseille 'A travers un cercle de regards', Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris 2009 'Riwaq Biennale', curated by Riwaq, Ramallah, West Bank 'The Other Shadow of the City', curated by Samar Martha, al Hoash Gallery, Jerusalem 'Les Rencontres Internationales', Reina Sofia National Museum, Madrid 2008 'Les Rencontres Internationales', Beaux-arts de Paris, Paris 'The Animal Gaze', London Metropolitan University, London 'Re-Construction', curated by Ami Barak, Bucharest Biennale 'Map Games', Today Museum, Beijing, China and Birmingham City Art Museum, Birmingham 'AMBULANTE, Injerto', Gira de Documentales, Mexico City and touring 2007 'Riwaq Biennale', curated by Charles Esche, Riwaq and ArtSchool Palestine, Ramallah, West Bank 'About Time', Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Denmark Nordic Video Festival, Sweden 2006 'Panoramica', The Rufino Tamayo Museum, Mexico City Peekskill Project, Peekskill, New York 2005 'Vanishing Point', curated by Claudine Isé, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio LOOP Video Festival, Galeria del Angels, Barcelona DUMBO Video Festival, New York 'Outside of It', Schroeder Romero, New York 2004-2005 'e-flux video store rental', devised by Anton Vidokle and Julieta Aranda touring from New York to KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Manifesta foundation, Amsterdam & the Moore Space, Miami Videobox, White Box Gallery, New York San Francisco Film and Video Festival 'Goldspin', Casas Riegner Gallery, project room, Miami 2003 'Surveillance',The Moore Space, Miami Artists Space, New York Brewster Project, Brewster, New York MOCA D.C., Washington D.C. 2002 Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, Los Angeles In Situ Gallery, Aalst, Belgium Blains Fine Art, London Martin Kudlek Gallery, Cologne 2001 'Swenglish', Acme Sweden, London 2000 'Not Enough', Velan Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin 'The Wreck of Hope', the Nunnery Gallery, London 'Introduction Service', Zwemmer Gallery, London 1999 'Bankside Browser', Tate Modern project, London NatWest Art Prize, Lothbury Gallery, London 'Versus V', Carignano, Turin John Moores 21, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 1998 Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne 1997 'Switch It Off', Kyoto, Japan Hales Gallery, London 'History', The Mag Collection, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull 1996 Whitechapel Open,Whitechapel Gallery, London Collections
Arts Council of Great Britain and other corporate and private collections in the UK, Europe and the USA Awards and Residencies
2009-10 Cité des Arts Paris residency 2009 ArtSchool Palestine residency 2006 Nominated for Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award 2005 'Panoptiscope' for the Petrie Museum at University College, London
Arts Council England2004 Commission and funding to go to Shanghai
China Artwise Curators, London2002-2003 Funding for residency at International Studio Program New York
British Council2003 Artist Residency
Miami Cultural Arts Council, Miami, Florida2002-2003 Artist Residency
International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York1993 Aeneas Award
Royal Academy of Arts, London Selected Bibliography
Miller, Leigh Anne, ‘Sarah Beddington’, Art in America, Feb 2009 Cotter, Holland, ‘Sarah Beddington: Crossing’, New York Times, Nov 7, 2008 Ward, Ossian, ‘Sarah Beddington’, Time Out, London, Arts section, Jan 23–29, 2008 Evans, Gareth, ‘Places of Laughter and of Crying’, Time Out, London, Other Cinema section, Critics choice and review, Jan 16–22, 2008 Lack, Jessica, ‘Sarah Beddington’, Guardian Newspaper, Guardian Guide review and top 5, Jan 19, 2008 Carroll, Henry, ‘Places of Laughter and of Crying, Bloomberg SPACE’, City AM, Jan 21, 2008 Gray, Louise, ‘Living in a Box’, Museums Journal, October 2005 JC, 'Sarah Beddington: Panoptiscope', Flavorpill, Oct 4 – 10, 2005 artnet, 'Parallel Lines and Other Stories', Berlin, July 12, 2005 Johnson, Ken, 'Everywhere's the Same: Nowhere in Particular', New York Times, June 3 2005 Foster, Hal, 'Six Notes on Vanishing', Vanishing Point catalogue, Wexner Center for the Arts, 2005 Isé, Claudine, Vanishing Point catalogue, Wexner Center for the Arts, 2005 Dyer, Richard, Contemporary Magazine, Issue 77, 2005 What's On London, The Art Newspaper, November 2005 Gray, Louise, Museums Journal, November 2005 Hill, Joe: 'Sarah Beddington - where would you rather be...', contemporary magazine, issue 60, 2004 Turner, Elisa: 'Last call for a vital exhibit', Miami Herald, Dec 13 2003 Anderson, John: 'Video eye for Basel', The New Times, Dec 4 2003 Gronlund, Melissa: 'Double Trouble', contemporary magazine, issue 50, 2003 Levin, Kim, Voice Choices, Villlage Voice, March 12-18 2003 Cork, Richard: 'Five Best London Exhibitions', The Times Newspaper, June 9, 2001 Lack, Jessica: 'Exhibitions: Sarah Beddington', The Guardian Guide, June 2, 2001 Clark, Paul: 'Sarah Beddington', The Evening Standard, May 30, 2001 Tan, Eugene: 'Sarah Beddington', ArtReview, Volume L1V, June 2001 Kyander, Pontus: 'As if Looking Through a Venetian Blind', Sydsvenskan, December 13, 1999 Klinthage, Jorgen: 'Conscious Quotes and Melancholy Urban Spaces', Arbetet, December 13, 1999 John Moores 21(catalogue), Walker Art gallery, Liverpool, 1999 Versus V (catalogue), Ex Lanificio Bona, Carignano, Italy Barbieri, Annalisa: 'Isn't a Camera Enough?', Independent on Sunday, Culture, June 20, 1999 Marlow, Tim: NatWest Art Prize 1999 (catalogue), p.9, Lothbury Gallery, London Mullins, Charlotte: 'Suited and Muted', The Independent on Sunday, Culture, May 16, 1999 Burton, Jane: 'Wall-to-Wall Talent', Sunday Times, Metro, Apr 24-30, 1999 Exley, Roy: 'Sarah Beddington: Hales Gallery', zingmagazine, pp.210-212, spring/summer 1999 Dyer,Richard: 'Sarah Beddington', TimeOut, p.49, February 3-10 1999 Von Planta, Regina: 'Sarah Beddington in Hales Gallery', Kunst Bulletin, pp.42-43, January/February 1999 Fulcher, Dawn: 'Sarah Beddington', Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 21, p.88, December-February 1999 Greenan, Althea: 'Is History His or Hers?', Make, No.82, p.24, December 1998-February 1999 Benjamin, Marina: 'Whitechapel Open: No beef...', Evening Standard, Apr 9, 1998