Represented by galerie kamel mennour, Paris & Goodman Gallery London
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:
2024
Let the drums beat!, Goodman Gallery, NY, USA
Let’s go on singing!, Goodman Gallery, London, UK
Dreams Have No Titles, (French Pavilion Venice), Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2023
Dreams Have No Titles (from the French Pavilion, Venice Biennale), Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
Dreams Have No Titles, (French Pavilion), 14th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea
Can’t You See the Sea Changing?, Dundee Contemporary Arts, UK
No Matter What, Mennour Gallery, Paris, France
2022
Can’t You See the Sea Changing? De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, UK
Dreams Have No Titles, French Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Italy
2021
Voice Over: Zineb Sedira, SMoCA (Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art), US
Standing Here Wondering Which Way to Go, Bilmuseet, Umeå, Sweden
2019
A Brief Moment, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
Zineb Sedira, IVAM, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
Je suis né étranger/I am a Native Foreigner, for Le Réservoir – Espace découverte du Canal du Midi, (organised by Les Abattoirs)
Outside the Lines, Galerie ART & ESSAI, Rennes, France
Zineb Sedira @ NOW 5, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
2018
Laughter in Hell: galerie kamel mennour, Paris, France
Of Words and Stones, Beirut Art Center (BAC), Lebanon
Air Affairs and Maritime NonSense…, Sharjah Art Foundation Art Spaces, UAE (Catalogue)
2017
Line of Flight, Kulte Gallery & Editions, Rabat, Morrocco
2016
L’écriture des lignes, kamel mennour, Paris, France
Collecting Lines, Art On the Underground (commission), London, UK
Now You See Me Now You See Me, VCUQ Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Doha, Qatar
2015
Zineb Sedira : Present Tense, Taymour Ghrane Gallery, NYC, USA (Catalogue)
Sand of Times, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE
2014
Disenchanted Matters, Plutschow, Zurich, Switzerland
Maritime Chronicles, Galleria Riccardo Crespi, Milan, Italy
2013
Sweet Journeys, Galerie La jetée, J1 Grand Port Maritime, Marseille, France
Lighthouse in the Sea of Time, Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, Houston, USA
Récits maritimes: Entre terre et mer, Selma Feriani Gallery, Tunis, Tunisia
The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea Part V: Zineb Sedira, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2011
Beneath the Surface, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris
2010
Gardiennes d’images, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
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 (Catalogue)
Under the Sky and Over the Sea, Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen, Denmark (Catalogue)
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, Temple 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, Switzerland
2004
Zineb Sedira: Telling stories with differences, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK (Catalogue/DVD) Touring exhibition (Catalogue)
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
Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles 2002, 33e edition, Arles, France (Catalogue)
Past Group Exhibitions:
2024
How Language Invents the World, Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland
Ces Voix qui m’assiègent…, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France
The Circle Was A Point, Foundry, Dubai, U.A.E
Can You Sea? – The Mediterranean as a political body, maltabiennale.art 2024, Valletta, Malta
2023
British Art (Rehang of Tate Britain’s Collection Displays), Tate Britain, UK
Popular, IVAM (Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno), Valencia, Spain
Real Families: Stories of Change, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
Unbind, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town
Dreams Have No Titles (film), The High Line, NY City, USA
Une séparation, Passerelle Centre d’art contemporain, Brest, France
Deep Blue, Porto Photography Biennial ’23
British Art rehang of Tate Britain’s Collection Displays, Tate Britain, UK
2022
7 WINDS, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland
For a Brief Moment […] Several Time: Latifa Echakhch & Zineb Sedira, Kunsthausbaselland, Basel, Switzerland
2021
Alger Archipel des libertés, Frac Centre-Val de Loire, Orléans, France
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2021, Deutsche Börse’s headquarters in Eschborn, Frankfurt
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2021, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK
We Are History, Terrace Rooms, Somerset House, London, UK
The Stomach and the Port, Liverpool Biennial 2021, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Ce qui s’oublie et ce qui reste, Africa2020 @ Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris
Traducciones rioplatenses, MUNTREF, Museum of Immigration, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Swirl of Words, Swirl of Worlds, Shoreditch Library. Organised by PEER, London
2020
Invisible Wounds: Landscape and Memory in Photography, Graves Gallery at University of Sheffield, UK
Global(e) Resistance, Pompidou Centre, Permanent collections, Paris, France
2019
Sixty Years, Tate Britain, London
Migrating Worlds: The Art of the Moving Image in Britain, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA
Babel, ISELP – Institut Supérieur pour l’Étude du Langage Plastique, Bruxelles, Belgium
Ways of Seeing: Intersection between transits and migrations in the contemporary experience, part of BIENALSUR at the National Museum of Decorative Art of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Frontières plurielles, Centre d’Art de Briançon, Hautes-Alpes, France
Toi qui chemines il n’y a pas de chemin: Parcours autour d’artistes du Prix Marcel Duchamp, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing & Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
Like Sugar, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, USA
Is This Tomorrow? Whitechapel Gallery, London
Climbing Through the Tide, B7L9 artspace, Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Tunis, Tunisia
2018
Family, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Holland
Persona Grata, Hostilité /Hospitalité, Musée de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris
Walls Have Ears: 400 Years of Change, Aston Hall, Birmingham Museums, UK
Sahara: What is Written will Remain, Gallerie delle Prigioni, Treviso, Italy
Baya: Woman of Algiers, Grey Art Gallery, NYU, USA
2017
The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp, Prospect.4, New Orleans’ international art exhibition, USA
Après, a project by Eric Baudelaire, Galerie 3, Centre Pompidou, Paris
On Moving Image/Sobre la imagen en movimiento as part of Bienalsur, CEC (Center of Contemporary Expressions) Rosario City, Argentina
Sticky Business – the temptation of sugar in Art, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Holland
Being Rebellious. Women´s Narratives in the Arab World, IVAM (Valencia Institute of Modern Art), Spain
The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding/Decoding, Stamps Gallery, University of Michigan, USA
Between two rounds of fire, the exile of the sea: Arab Modern and Contemporary Works from the Barjeel Art
Foundation, American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Washington DC, USA
La terre la plus contraire: les femmes du prix Marcel Duchamp, Fondation Fernet-Branca, Saint Louis, France
L’Orient aux deux visages, Fondation Pierre Arnaud, Lens, Switzerland
Voices, collection display at the Drum Gallery, Tate Modern, London
Tous, des sang-mêlés, MAC VAL Musée d’art contemporain du Val de Marne, France
Offshore: artists explore the sea, produced by Invisible Dust, Ferens Art Gallery and the Hull Maritime Museum, Hull – UK City of
Culture 2017
Destinerrance, Arteum, France
2016
Essential Paysage, Al Maaden Centre d’Art Contemporain Africain, Marrakech, Morocco
Meeting Points, VideoStudio, Studio Museum, NY, USA
Après Babel, traduire, MuCEM, Marseille, France
Matières à penser, Mecenat Picard, Château de Chassagne-Montrachet, France
L’Iris de Lucy, artistes africaines contemporaines, Musée Départemental d’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, France
Uncertain States, Akademie Der Künste, Berlin, Germany
We Refugees On the Right to Have Rights, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding/Decoding, Museum Colecao Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
Made in Algeria, Généalogie d’un territoire, MuCem, Marseille, France
Between Myth and Horror, The Mediterranean as Conflict, IVAM (Institut Valencià d’Art Modern), Spain
Souviens-toi du temps présent, Art Center de lait, Albi, France
But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art from the Middle East and North Africa, Guggenheim, New York, USA
Mother of the Year, Between Empowerment and Crisis. Images of Motherhoood from 1900 to Today, LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria, is planning an extensive exhibition
2015
Horizons, Plutschow Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland
Good Walls Make Good Neighbourgs, St James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, VIVA (Valletta International Visual Arts Festival), Malta
The Translator’s Voice, Marco, Museum de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
The divine comedy, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, USA
The Translator’s Voice, FRAC Lorraine, France
Mare Medi Terraneum, Es Baluard Museu d’Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, Spain
The Unfinished Conversation, Beirut Art Centre, Beirut, Lebanon
The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding and Decoding, The Power Plant, Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2014
The Divine Comedy, Scad, Savannah, USA
L’Oeil Photographique: Oeuvres majeures des collections du Centre national des arts plastiques,
Frac Auvergne, France
Before the Horizon, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
The Politics Of Food, Delfina Foundation, London, UK
Ship to Shore: Art and the Lure of the Sea: SeaCity Museum, Southampton, UK
The Divine Comedy, MMK Museum für Modern Kunst – Frankfurt (20 Mar) and Smithsonian
National Museum of African Art, Washington, USA
Here Africa, Château de Penthes, Geneva, Switzerland
Songs of Loss and Songs of Love: Lee Nan-Young and Oum Kulthoum, Gwangju Museum of Art, South Korea
2013
Le Pont, Musée d’Art Contemporain [MAC], Marseille, France
Les Galeries de la Méditerranée, permanent exhibition, MuCem (Musée des civilisations
de l’Europe et de la Méditerrannée), Marseille, France
Aqua Vitalis: Positions de l’art contemporain, Artothèque, Caen, France
Terms & Conditions, Singapore Art Museum, Republic of Singapore
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.
Homelands, Lalit Kala Akademi: New Delhi; Harrington St Art Centre: Kolkata; Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum: Mumbai; National Gallery of Modern Art: Bangalore
Un brève histoire de lignes, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
Family Matters: The Family in British Art, Tate Britain, London
Imagined Places, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, Holland
2012
The Mediterranean Approach, SESC Pinheiros, São Paulo, Brasil
Migrations, Tate Britain, London, UK
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
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, Folkestone Triennial, Folkestone, UK
A Sense of Perspective, Tate Liverpool, UK
2010
Told, Untold, Retold, Museum of Contemporary Art, Doha, Qatar
Les Rencontres de Picha 2010, Lubumbashi, Congo
Living Across, Spaces of Migration, xhibit, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
Entre-temps, LoftProject Etagi, Saint Petersbourg, Russia
Photography as a process of identity, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Voice Between Lines, Centre d’Art la Panera, Lleida, Spain
Journey With No Return, A Foundation, Rochelle School, London, UK
Wild is the Wind, SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design), Savannah, USA
2009
Frontieres, Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Bamako, Mali
Festival d’Art Contemporain, Algiers, Algeria
Journeys with no return, Akbank Cultural Centre, Istanbul, Turkey
Femininity/Masculinity, Espai Visor, Valencia, Spain
Rebelle. Art and Feminism, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Holland
Elle@centrepmpidou, Pompidou Centre, Paris
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, 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
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
2007
House Trip, Berlin Art Fair, Germany
Port Cities, on Mobility and Exhange, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
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
Afterlife, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Global Feminism, Brooklyn Museum, NY, USA
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
Entre Fronteras/Between Borders, Museum of Contemporary Art, Vigo Spain
2006
La Video: Un Art, Une Histoire 1965-2005, showcasing video work from the Centre Georges Pompidou’s collection. Touring internationally (
Mankind, Leuven, Belgium
Exorcising Exoticism, 2006 Contemporary Art Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan
Why Pictures Now: Photography/Film/Video, Mumok, Vienna, Austria
The Waiting Place, Whitstable Biennale 2006, UK
Around the world in 80 days, ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art and South London Gallery, UK
Une vision du Monde, la collection de Jean-Conrad et Isabelle Lemaître, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
2005
The Art of White: painting, photography, installation, The Lowry, Salford Quays, UK
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
Identità & Nomadismo, Palazzo delle Papesse-Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
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, Mori Museum, Tokyo, Japan. Touring exhibition
Historias; ‘History in the Making’: Photo Espana2004 Madrid, Spain
Britannia Works, Athens, Greece
Stranger than Fiction, Arts Council Collection. Touring nationally to Leeds City Art Gallery (April), Carlisle, Aberystwyth, Lincoln, Nottingham…
‘Ficcions’ Documentals, Fundació la Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
Tales of the City, British Council Exhibition, London Focus in 2004 Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy
2003
Looking Both Ways, Museum for African Art, New York, USA
Voyages d’artistes, Algérie 03, Espace Electra, Paris, France
Gestes, Festival du Printemps de Septembre, édition 2003, Toulouse, France
Aletheia, The Real of Conceament, Göteborgs Kontanstmuseum, Sweden
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
Ouverture Algériennes, créations vivantes, La Criée centre d’art contemporain, Rennes, France
Le XXeme siècle dans l’Art Algérien, Chateau Borrelli, Marseilles
Veil, Walsall Museums and Art Gallery and Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool and MOMA, Oxford
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
In/tangible Cartographies: New Arab Video, Pacific Cinèmatheque, Vancouver, Canada
Fold, City Gallery, Leicester, UK
2001
Patterns, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, UK.
Mémoires intimes d’un nouveau millénaire, IV Rencontres de la Photographie africaine, Bamako 2001, Mali
History of our present, Argos Festival 2001, Cinema Nova, Brussels, Belguim.
Authentic/ex-centric: Africa In and Out Africa, 49th VENICE BIENNALE, Italy
ev+a, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick Annual Biennial, Republic of Ireland
2000
More than meets the eye, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Ekbatana?, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
Insertion: Self and Other, Apex Art C.P, New York, USA
‘Artists’ Wallpapers: A Contemporary View’, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
1999
From Where – to Here, Art from London, Konsthallen Göteborg Museum, Sweden
Dialogue of the Present, Women’s Art Library, UK touring exhibition
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, UK
Showgirls, Billboard Project, Women’s Art Factory, Sheffield, UK
Return of the Showgirls, Women’s Art Factory, The Workstation, Sheffield, UK
1997
Point of Entry, Cable Street Gallery, London, UK
Out of the Blue, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow Museums, Scotland, UK
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
· Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston , USA
· 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
. Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
. Guggenheim, NY
· 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 and Contemporary Art Collections, London
· Whitworth Art Gallery, Contemporary Wall Paper Collections, Manchester
· Wolverhampton Arts and Museums, Wolverhampton
· Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (ICA)