Gaby Sahhar
1992, London
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2024 Spiaggia Libera Gallery, Paris (forthcoming)
2024 Quench, Margate, UK
2023 CIRCA Prize Shortlist
2023 Art O Rama, Marseille
2023 Whitechapel Gallery, Escape the Slick with Duchamp and Sons
2023 MAC VAL Paris (Forthcoming)
2022 Kooples Art Award - Champs-Élysées
2022 PAGE NYC
2021 Inner City Pressure, SPACE Ilford
2019 Second Home, Sweetwater, Berlin
2019 Almanac Projects, Turin, Italy
2018 I am, PlayCo, London
2017 Totally Different Animals (with Rosie Grace Ward), Arcadia Missa, London
2016 Upgrade me, Tesco Extra, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Magasin Généraux, Paris (forthcoming)
2024 Art Brussels Fair, Brussels
2024 Gallery Artbeat, Tbilisi
2024 Focal Point Gallery, Big Screen, UK
2024 Institut du Monde Arab, Arab Futures, Paris
2023 Sultana, Arles,
2023 Mamoth, London
2022 Restaurant Projects NYC
2022 SPACE Artist Award, Ilford
2022 Sadie Coles HQ The Shop - Queerdirect Group show
2021 HESTIA, 55bis, Inner City Pressure, Paris
2020 MIXED // VARIOUS // UNTITLED curated by Mohamed Almusibli, Truth and Kinship
2020 VII Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Museum of Moscow, Crime in Progress
2020 La Casa Encendida, Madrid
2020 Burn Out, Freud Museum, London
2020 Working Progress, South London Gallery, London
2020 GENDERS, science Gallery, London
2018 ArtWorks Open, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London
2017 The Night Holds its Breath, Penarth Center, London
2017 Everyone is Now Rich Apparently, Arcadia Missa NY, New York
2016 Encounters, Galleri Mejan, Stockholm
Selected Screenings, Events and Teaching
2024 Somerset House Artist Fair, Talk
2023 Wellcome Collection, Being Human Workshop
2023 Whitechapel Gallery, Duchamp and Sons
2023 Bristol University, Spike Island
2022, London Metropolitan University
2022, Bristol university, Spike Island
2021 Cashmere Radio, Portals, Berlin
2021 Panel, Spike Island, Selected XI with artists, River Cao, Sam Grant
2021 Selected 11, selected by Hannah Quinlan, Rosie Hastings
2020 (Interview) Whitechapel Gallery, Derek Jarman Film Award, In conversion with Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings
2020 (Panel) VII Moscow International Biennale, Epic Fail / The Praise of Failure,
2020 BFI, London Film Festival, Truth and Kinship
2020 DRAF, Truth and Kinship
2020 (Upcoming) Science gallery + King's College (Teaching) London
2019 Queerdirect Publication, Mimsoa House, London
2019 Spike Island, (Teaching) Bristol
2019 Still I Rise,(Teaching) Arnolfini gallery, Bristol
2019 Winchester university, (Teaching) Winchester
2019 Tate Collectives (Teaching) TATE, London
2018 All Too Human, (Teaching) Queerdirect Life Drawing, Tate Britain, London
Queerdirect: Examining the Reaction to Heteropatriarchy, London Design Week, London
The Disappearance of Gaby Sahhar (screening), AQNB, London
Networking: An Evening with Queerdirect, Somerset House, London
2017 Queerdirect Life Drawing, Tate Britain, London
The Disappearance of Gaby Sahhar (screening), Tate Britain, London
The Disappearance of Gaby Sahhar (screening), Site Specific Location, New York
Visualise Queerness: Platinum Paradise, Tate Britain, London
Secrets of Palastine (screening), Penarth Studios, London
Secrets of Palastine (screening), Samariterstraße 35, Berlin
2016 Upgrade Me (screening), Tesco Extra Streatham, London
Shard Species (screening), Online
Residencies and Awards
2024 City Des Arts, Paris (forthcoming)
2022 Kooples Art Award
2021 SPACE, Artist Award
2020 Arts Council England, DYCP
2019 Almanac Projects, Turin, Italy
2015 Crossway Foundation / Art Jameel, Tokyo
Education
2015 BA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, London
2023, Whitechapel Gallery Ethics Committee Member, London UK (ongoing)
Contact
Gabysahhar@gmail.com