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Sarah Dobai
 
Born 1965 in London
 
Education
   
1993-
1995
MA, Fine Art, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
   
1988-
1990
Post-Graduate Diploma in Curatorship, Manchester University
   
1985-
1988
A History and History of Art, Hull University
 
Solo Exhibitions
   
2003 Two on a Party, ArtLab, Imperial College, London UK ex. catalogue
   
2002 Artists Space, New York
   
2001 Sarah Dobai, Entwistle, London
   
2000 Sarah Dobai, Galerie Zurcher, Paris
Patio de Escuelas, Imago 2000, Salamanca
Yard, 16mm film projection, Platform Gallery, London
Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago di Compostella, Spain
   
1999 Turnaround Project, Hayward Gallery, London
   
1997 SWEAT, Camerawork Gallery, London
   
1994 Studio Exhibition Project, S. Oxsanen’s and R.Graham’s Studio, Vancouver, curated by Shannon Oxsanen & Patrick Anderson
   
Selected Group Exhibitions and Projects
   
2003 Sodium Dreams, Bard College, Centre for Curatorial Studies, New York, USA
   
2002 Multiple Store, London
Shimmering Substance (curated by Barry Schwabsky and Stephen Hepworth), Arnolfini, Bristol
Unscene, Gasworks, London
   
2001 Scarlet and Black, Mellowbirds, London
   
2000 Anticorps, Galerie Zurcher, Paris
Black Box Recorder, British Council touring exhibition, Curated by Simon Morrisey and Colin Ledwith
   
1999 Office of Misplaced Events, Lotta Hammer Gallery, London, curated by Simon Morrisey
Space 1999, The Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester
Word enough to save a life, word enough to take a life, Clare College Mission Church, Southwark, curated by Simon Morrisey
Decoy, New British Photography, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, curated by Tim Dawson
Another Girl, Another Planet, Lawrence Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, curated by Gregory Crewdson and Gini Greenberg
   
1998 Tres courts espaces de temps, Ecole Supérieure Nationale des Beaux arts
Biennale de L’image, Centre National de Photographie, Paris
Sightings - New Photographic Art, ICA, London, curated by Tim Dawson
   
1997 Knowledge/Control/Power, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
New Contemporaries, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, Camden Arts Centre, London, CCA, Glasgow
Experiment GB, Kunstverein, Trier and Kubus Gallery, Hanover
Offsite project, collaboration with John Isaacs and FAT, Camden Arts Centre, London
B.c.c., Cleveland and The Tannery, London, curated by Andrew Renton
   
1995 Collections, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Belken Gallery, Vancouver
Wall to Wall, Or Gallery, Vancouver
   
1994 FOTO 1, 152c Brick Lane, London
   
Selected Bibliography
   
2002 ‘Review’, Shimmering Substance, Art Monthly, April
Archer, Michael. Review, Artforum, January
Exley, Roy. Review, Art Press, February, pages 76-77
Smyth, Cherry. ‘Teetering.’ Source, Spring: 46-47.
   
2001 Pinsent, Richard. ‘Adroitly controlled…’ The Art Newspaper, December
Field, Marcus. ‘Pick of the galleries’, The Independent on Sunday, December 16th
   
2000 Schultz, Deborah. ‘Office of Misplaced Events’, Art Monthly, no233, February
Exley, Roy. ‘Anticorps’, Contemporary Visual Arts, May
   
1999 Morley, Simon. ‘Word enough to save a life, word enough to take a life’, Contemporary Visual Arts 24 June-July
Morrisey, Simon. ‘Sarah Dobai: Hayward Gallery, London’, Untitled no.18
‘Loving the Hayward’, Blueprint 158, February
Sand, Michael L. ‘Another Girl, Another Planet’, Art News, June
Aletti, Vince. ‘Imitation of Life’, Village Voice, New York, 6th April
Holmes, A.A. on Another Girl, Another Planet’, exhibition catalogue, Lawrence Rubin, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York
Jones, Jonathan. ‘Office of Misplaced Events’, Independent, 12th December
McClaren, Duncan. ‘Office of Misplace Events’, Independent, 12th December
Arning, Bill. ‘The sisters of another planet’, Time Out 185, New York, 8-15 April
   
1998 Morrissey, Simon. ‘Sightings - New Photographic Art’, ICA Publications, London
Tozer, John. ‘Sarah Dobai & Tony Tasset, Camerawork’, London, Creative Camera, February-March
Morrisey, Simon. ‘Amnesia: Sarah Dobai, Rachel Lowe, Sophie Rickett, Elisa Sighicelli’ Contemporary Visual Arts, April-May
Ireson, Ally. ‘Slowing Down the Snapshot: Sarah Dobai and Rut Blees Luxembourg’ D-Tour 21, February
Beausse, Pascal. ‘Biennale de L’image’, Paris, Flash Art, no203, November- December
   
1997 ‘The thrill of the Chase’, Blueprint Magazine 137, March
Bonami, Francesco. ‘Echoes: art in the Age of Endless Conclusions’, December
Crichton-Miller, Emma. ‘New Contemporaries’, 97, Frank, October
‘New Art Brats’, The Face, May
Kent, Sarah. ‘Bcc:The Tannery/Cleveland’, Time Out no 1382, 12-19 February
   
1996 Ouverture: ‘Sarah Dobai’, Flash Art, no.187, March-April
   
1995 Gallo, Ruben. ‘Sarah Dobai’, Poliester, vol. 4, no 3, Mexico
   
1994 Andrew Klobuc ar, Studio Exhibition: Converted Studio of S. Oksanen and R. Graham, BOO, no2, Vancouver, Verano
   
Publications
   
2003 Two on a Party, Sarah Dobai, ArtLab 24, London, UK
2000 Sarah Dobai, Patio de Escuelas, Imago 2000, Salamanca University, Spain