biography
Represented by Galerie Kamel Mennour
Awarded by the French Ministry of Culture:
Chevalier des Ordres des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters)
Education:
1998-2003 Royal College of Art: Research studies in the Photography dept., London.
1995-1997 Slade School of Art: Master of Fine Art in Media, London.
1992-1995 Central Saint Martins School of Art: BA (hons) in Critical Fine Art Practice, London.
Past Solo Exhibitions:
2011
Beneath the Surface, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris
2010
Gardiennes d'images, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (catalogue)
Les rêves n'ont pas de titre, Musée d’Art Contemporain [MAC], Marseille, France
Under the Sky and Over the Sea, BildMuseets, Umeå University, Sweden
Under the Sky and Over the Sea, Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen, Denmark
MiddleSea, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada
Zineb Sedira, Musée National Pablo Picasso, La Guerre et la Paix, Vallauris, France
Invitation au Voyage, Galerie Edouard-Manet, Gennevilliers, France
2009
Under the Sky and Over the Sea, Pori Museum, Finland (catalogue)
Zineb Sedira: Seafaring, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK
MiddleSea as part of Forex, at Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Currents of Time: Rivington Place, London
Floating Coffins, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK
2008
Shipwreck: the death of a journey, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris
MiddleSea, Wapping Project, London
Zineb Sedira, Centre Culturel Français, Algiers, Algeria
2007
Videos by Zineb Sedira, Centre d'Art Contemporain du Parvis, Pau, France
Saphir, Temble Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2006
Saphir, Photographer's Gallery, London (Catalogue)
Transitional Landscapes, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris
Zineb Sedira, Galerie Esma, Algiers, Centre Culturel Français, Oran and Constantine, Algeria
2005
Zineb Sedira, OneTwenty Gallery, Gent, Belgium and at Fri-Art, Fribourg, Swizerland
2004
Zineb Sedira: Telling stories with differences, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK (Catalogue/DVD) Touring exhibition
2003
Zineb Sedira, Galleria Sogospatty, Rome, Italy (Catalogue)
Regard Croisé, Arles, France
2002
Biennal of Photography in Florence and Prato, Monograph, Dryphoto arte contemporanea, Prato. Italy (catalogue)
Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles 2002, 33e edition, Arles, France (Catalogue)
Past Group Exhibitions:
2013
Imagined Places, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam
Becoming Independent, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
Ici, ailleurs, La Friche Belle de Mai, Marseilles as part of Marseille Provence 2013: European Capital of Culture.
Family Matters: The Family in British Art, Tate Britain, London
2012
The Mediterranean Approach, SESC Pinheiros, São Paulo, Bresil
Migrations, Tate Britain, London
Once Upon a Time the Screen, Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
Usages et convivialité, Maison des Arts de Malakoff, France
Liquid Archive, Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA, Australia
State of Transit, Open Space Open Systems, Vienna, Austria
The Mediterranean Approach, Musée d’Art Contemporain [MAC], France
2011
Family Matters: The Family in British Art, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery
Drift - an exploration of urban & suburban landscapes, Sharjah Art Museum, United Arab Emirates
Disquieting Muses, Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki – State Museum of Contemporary Art, Greece (catalogue)
Haunting: Furtive and uncanny presence in media, art, and pop, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz, Austria
The Mediterranean Approach, Palazzo Zenobio, Venice Biennale
A Million Miles from Home, Fokestone Triennial, Fokestone, UK (catalogue)
A Sense of Perspective, Tate Liverpool, UK
2010:
Told, Untold, Retold, Museum of Contemporary Art, Doha, Qatar (catalogue)
Les Rencontres de Picha 2010, Lubumbashi, Congo
Living Across, Spaces of Migration, xhibit, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria (catalogue)
Entre-temps, LoftProject Etagi, Saint Petersbourg, Russia (catalogue)
Photography as a process of identity, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium (catalogue)
Voice Between Lines, Centre d'Art la Panera, Lleida, Spain (catalogue)
Journey With No Return, A Foundation, Rochelle School, London (catalogue)
Wild is the Wind, SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design), Savannah, USA (catalogue)
2009
Frontieres, Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Bamako, Mali
Festival d’Art Contemporain, Algiers, Algeria
Journeys with no return, Akbank Cultural Centre, Istanbul
Femininity/Masculinity, Espai Visor, Valencia, Spain
Rebelle. Art and Feminism, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Holland (June) (Catalogue)
Elle@centrepmpidou, Pompidou Centre, Paris (Catalogue)
Entre-Temps, MIS (Museum of the Image and Sound) Sao Paulo, Brazil
Maritime Chronicles: flow and junctions, Ausstellungsraum Klingenthal, Kaserne, Basel, Switzerland
2008
Sphères, at Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Châtel (Seine-et-Marne) – FRANCE
Surreale 2008, Galleria Mimmo Scognamiglio Gallery in Milan
Éclats de frontières – Nouvelles acquisitions, FRAC (Fond Réginal d’Art Contemporain, Marseilles)
U-turn, 1st Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark (Catalogue)
REVOLUTIONS, The University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, USA
Body Space Exhibition, Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery, Carlisle, UK
L’Art au Féminin, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain d’Alger, Algiers (Catalogue)
2007
House Trip, Berlin Art Fair, Germany
Port Cities, on Mobility and Exhange, Arnolfini, Bristol (Catalogue)
Art Contemporain Arabe, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain d’Alger, Algiers, Algeria
Her(his)story, Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, Greece
Heterotopias: Society Must Be Defended, Thessaloniki Biennale, Greece
Still Life: Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change, Sharjah Biennial 8, United Arab Emirate (Catalogue)
Afterlife, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (Catalogue)
Global Feminism, Brooklyn Museum, NY, USA (Catalogue)
I Am Making Art. 4 Studies on the Artist’s Body: Identity and Transformation, Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève, Switzerland
Beyond Dust, the Archeological Museum, Naples, Italy (catalogue)
Entre Fronteras/Between Borders, Museum of Contemporary Art,Vigo Spain (catalogue)
2006
La Video: Un Art, Une Histoire 1965-2005, showcasing video work from the Centre Georges Pompidou’s collection. Touring internationally (catalogue)
Mankind, Leuven, Belgium (Catalogue)
Exorcising Exoticism, 2006 Contemporary Art Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan (Catalogue)
Why Pictures Now: Photography/Film/Video, Mumok, Vienna, Austria (Catalogue)
The Waiting Place, Whitstable Biennale 2006, UK
Around the world in 80 days, ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art and South London Gallery, UK (Catalogue)
Une vision du Monde, la collection de Jean-Conrad et Isabelle Lemaître, La Maison Rouge, Paris (Catalogue)
2005
The Art of White: painting, photography, installation, The Lowry, Salford Quays, UK (Catalogue)
British Art Show 06, opening at Baltic, Gateshead, touring to Manchester, Castle Museum, across several venues in Nottingham and Bristol.
Meeting Point, Stenersen, Museum, Oslo, Norway (Catalogue)
Identità & Nomadismo, Palazzo delle Papesse-Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy (Catalogue)
Some Stories, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria. Touring to Minoriten Kultur Graz: May /July 10 and Magazin 4/ Kunstverein Bregenz
2004
Africa Remix, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Hayward Gallery, London. Touring exhibition (Publication)
Historias; ‘History in the Making’: Photo Espana 2004 Madrid, Spain (Catalogue)
Britannia Works, Athens, Greece (April) (Catalogue)
Stranger than Fiction, Arts Council Collection. Touring nationally to Leeds City Art Gallery (April), Carlisle, Aberystwyth, Lincoln, Nottingham…(Catalogue)
‘Ficcions’ Documentals, Fundació la Caixa, Barcelona (Catalogue)
Tales of the City, British Council Exhibition, London Focus in 2004 Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy (Catalogue)
2003
Looking Both Ways, Museum for African Art, New York, USA (Catalogue)
Voyages d’artistes, Algérie 03, Espace Electra, Paris, France (Oct.) (Catalogue)
Gestes, Festival du Printemps de Septembre, édition 2003, Toulouse, France (Catalogue)
Aletheia, The Real of Conceament, Göteborgs Kontanstmuseum, Sweden (Catalogue)
Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary Africa Abroad, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Stranger, First Triennial of Photography and Video, Institute of Contemporary Photography, New York, USA(Catalogue)
Ouverture Algériennes, créations vivantes, La Criée centre d’art contemporain, Rennes, France (Catalogue)
Le XXeme siècle dans l'Art Algérien, Chateau Borrelli, Marseilles (Publication)
Veil, Walsall Museums and Art Gallery and Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool and MOMA, Oxford (Publication))
2002
Self-Evident: Making the Self the subject of Art from 1970 to the present Day, Tate Britain, London
History/Now, Stockholm Fotofestival 2002, Liljevalchs Konsthall. Touring in Sweden. (Catalogue)
In/tangible Cartographies: New Arab Video, Pacific Cinèmatheque, Vancouver, Canada
Fold, City Gallery, Leicester, UK (catalogue)
2001
Patterns, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, UK.
Mémoires intimes d'un nouveau millénaire, IV Rencontres de la Photographie africaine, Bamako 2001, Mali. (Catalogue)
History of our present, Argos Festival 2001, Cinema Nova, Brussels, Belguim. (Catalogue)
Authentic/ex-centric: Africa In and Out Africa, 49th VENICE BIENNALE, Italy. (Catalogue/book)
ev+a, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick Annual Biennial, Republic of Ireland. (Catalogue)
2000
More than meets the eye, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK. (Catalogue)
Ekbatana?, Nikollaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark. (Catalogue)
Insertion: Self and Other, Apex Art C.P, New York, U.S.A.
‘Artists’ Wallpapers: A Contemporary View’, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.
1999
From Where - to Here, Art from London, Konsthallen Göteborg Museum, Sweden. (Catalogue)
Dialogue of the Present, Women's Art Library, UK touring exhibition. (publication)
The Order of Things, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK.
Where are you from?, BM Contemporary Art Centre, Istanbul, Turkey.
1998
Is Art Beneath You?, Serpentine Gallery, London. (Catalogue)
Showgirls, Billboard Project, Women's Art Factory, Sheffield.
Return of the Showgirls, Women's Art Factory, The Workstation, Sheffield.
1997
Point of Entry, Cable Street Gallery, London, UK.
Out of the Blue, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow Museums, Scotland, UK. (Catalogue)
Collections:
Public:
- Art in Embassies - U.S. Department of State, Washington
· Arts Council England , London
· Centre national des arts plastiques, ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Paris
· Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
· Collection d’Isabelle et Jean-Conrad Lemaître
· Deutsche Bank Collection, Frankfurt
· Ernst & Young, Paris
· Fonds municipal d’art contemporain de la Ville de Paris
· FRAC Alsace, Sélestat
· FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseilles
· Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow Museums, Glasgow
· Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Tunis
- Musée d'art contemporain, Marseille [MAC]
· Mathaf - Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha
· Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris
· Musée national de l’histoire et des cultures de l’immigration / Cité nationale de l’histoire, Paris
· Neuflize Vie, Paris
· SACEM, Paris
· SAM Art Projects, Paris
· Sharjah Art Museum Collection, Sharjah
· Tate collection, London
· The Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, Exeter University
· The mumok - museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien Collection, Vienna
· Victoria and Albert Museum, Contemporary Wall Paper Collections, London
· Whitworth Art Gallery, Contemporary Wall Paper Collections, Manchester
· Wolverhampton Arts and Museums, Wolverhampton
Private collectors
Awards/Prize:
2009: SAM Art Prize, Paris
2004 Decibel Award, Arts Council, London
2001 Prix AfAA, Laureat 2001: IV Rencontres de la photographie africaine, Bamako 2001, Mali
2000 Westminster Arts Council, Film and Video Bursaries, London
1999 Artsadmin Artists Bursary, London & Artists film and video national fund, The Arts Council of England
Selected Essays and Writings:
1997: Edith Marie Pasquier, Out of the Blue catalogue, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow –1998: Edith Marie Pasquier, essay for exhibition catalogue, Is Art beneath You?, Serpentine Gallery, London 1999: Edith Marie Pasquier, Oblique Gaze, Dialogue of the Present, exhibition catalogue/publication – 2000- Salah M. Hassan, Moi et l’Autre, l’Art dans le monde, exhibition catalogue, Paris - 2001: Gilane Tawadros, The Visible and the Invisible: The Work of Zineb Sedira, Authentic/ex-centric: Africa In and Out Africa, 59th Venice Biennale. - 2001: Rachel Garfield, Zineb Sedira, 2000: Fran Lloyd, Arab women artists: issues of representation and gender in contemporary British visual culture. - 2002: Simon Njami, Blink, (100 photographers, 10 curators, 10 writers), Phaidon Press – 2003: Fatma Zohra Zamoun, in Ouverture Algériennes, créations vivantes. Published by La Criée centre d’art contemporain, Rennes, France - Teresa Macri, ‘Elle’ in ‘Zineb Sedira’, solo catalogue, Galeria Sogospatti, Rome. - Edith Marie Pasquier, ‘Letters of Transit’ in Looking Both Ways, Museum for African Art – Tina Sotiriadi, Gabriel Coxhead, Simon Njami in ‘Zineb Sedira, a story told with differences’, Conerhouse catalogue/DVD. 2005 : Sarah Zürcher, Syncretic Landscapes and Outlooks, in exhibition catalogue Meeting Point, Stenersen, Museum, Oslo, Norway. 2006: Richard Dyers, Saphir and Elvan Zabunyan, Bringing time to the present: some considerations on the recent work of Zineb Sedira for the solo exhibition catalogue: Zineb Sedira: Saphir. 2007: Nadira Laggoune: Shifting Perceptions for Canvas Magazine. 2008: Rachel Garfield: Zineb Sedira for the New Media Encyclopedia website of Beaubourg Art center, Paris. Cherry Smith: The Work of Zineb Sedira for Lux Online. 2009: Lisa Lefeuvre: Currents of Time, Iniva, Rivington Place, London, Nadira Laggoune, Erik Veraghen, Lisa Lefeuvre for solo catalogue and exhibition: Under The Sky and Over the Sea, Pori Museum, Finland, Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Denmark and Bildmuseet, Sweden. – 2010: Paul Ardenne: ‘Zineb Sedira: Avant de retrouver un centre’ for the exhibition Zineb Sedira, Musée National Pablo Picasso, La Guerre et la Paix, Vallauris, France - 2011: Steven Bode: 'The Sea Closed By'; Coline Milliard: 'Memories' and Erik Verhagen for the monograph and exhibition Beneath the Surface, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris.