SWEETWATER,

GABY SAHHAR

*1992, London lives and works in London

EDUCATION

2015 BA, Goldsmiths, London

SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2019 Second Home, Sweetwater, Berlin Origins, Almanac Projects, Turin 2018 I am, Play-Co, London 2017 Totally Different Animals with Rosie Grace Ward, Arcadia Missa, London

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020 VII Moscow International Biennale for Young Art at Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow Mixed // Various // Untitled, cur. Mohamed Almusibli, at Spazio Nico, Bari Working Progress, South London Gallery, London GENDERS, Science Gallery London, London 2018 ArtWorks Open, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London 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 AND EVENTS 2020 Truth and Kinship (screening), British Film Institute London Film Festival, London Truth and Kinship (screening), David Roberts Art Foundation, London You burn me, Freud Museum, London 2018 All Too Human: 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

SELECTED PRESS

2020 Arrigoni, Marco, “Gli artisti contemporanei under 30 spiegano il linguaggio delle nuove generazioni,” Harper’s Bazaar Italia, February 20. 2019 Camblin, Victoria, “Gaby Sahhar’s ‘Second Home’ at Sweetwater,” 032c, August 9. Scheder, Beate, “Für wen welcher Luxus da ist,” Taz, July 4. Pounds, Gabriella, “Late Capitalism and Identity Politics,” Frieze, March 14. Manatakis, Lexi, “How to strengthen queer visibility in the art world,” Dazed, January 11. 2018 Nestor, Hatty, “Queerdirect Is Redefining How Art Institutions Designate Space to LGBTQI+ Individuals,” Frieze, November 12. Withington, Kitty, “Gaby’s Story,” The Creative Society, September 24. “I am – a script by Gaby Sahhar exploring identity formation in the gentrified spaces of London,” AQNB, March 21. “A Celebration of All the Personalities i-D Loves in the Art World Today,” i-D, March 8. 2017 Sanders, Anna, “About a Boy,” Pylot Magazine, June 11. “Artist Feature: Gaby Sahhar,” Float., January 15. 2016 Horvat, Katja, “Talking Art with Gaby Sahhar,” M-Mag, November 18. “Gaby Sahhar,” Coeval Magazine, September 3. Weinstock, Tish, “Gaby Sahhar,” i-D, June 2. 2015 Bloomfield, Jessye, “Q&A: Gaby Sahhar,” January 29.

RESIDENCIES

2019 Almanac Projects, Turin, Italy 2015 Crossway Foundation / Art Jameel, Tokyo

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