BIOGRAPHY - SARAH BALL
ABOUT
SARAH BALL
Born 1965, South Yorkshire
1983 - 1986 Newport Art College
2003 - 2005 MFA, Bath Spa University
Lives near Penzance, Cornwall
REPRESENTATION
Stephen Friedman Gallery
5–6 Cork Street
London
W1S 3LQ
T: +44 (0) 20 7494 1434
info@stephenfriedman.com
For enquiries, please contact Jonathan Horrocks:
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Sarah Ball, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England.
2021
Stephen Friedman Gallery, Frieze New York, USA.
2020
Portraits, Ben Hunter Gallery, London, England.
2019
An Unlikely Likeness, Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas, USA.
Bertillon, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA.
Themself, Anima Mundi, St Ives, England.
2017
Bertillon. Anima-Mundi, St Ives, England.
Kindred. Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA.
2016
The Garden Room, House of St Barnabas, Soho Square, London, England.
2015
Immigrants, Millennium Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall, England.
Immigrants, Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Cornwall, England.
2014
Accused: Part III. Conduit Gallery Dallas Texas, USA.
Damaged Humans with bo.lee Gallery, London, England.
2013
Accused: Part II. Millennium Gallery, St Ives, England.
2012
Accused. Millennium Gallery, St Ives, England.
2011
Sarah Ball & Meirion Ginsberg, Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff, Wales (two-person).
GROUP SHOWS & ART FAIRS
2023
The artist is a beast: Collection Edwin Oostmeijer, On The Inside, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
A Living Collection, Hepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire, England
2022
Being In the World: The Tenth Anniversary of the Long Museum, Long Museum, Shanghai, China
The Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody, The Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
I'm stepping high, I'm drifting, and there I go leaping, Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao City, China
From Near and Far: Collage and Figuration in the Contemporary Age, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Space for Imaginative Actions, a group show of the collection at Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
2021
Friend Zone, Half Gallery, New York, USA.
TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art, Rachofsky House, Dallas, Texas, USA.
2020 I See You. Victoria Miro, London, England.
Ode to a Nightingale. Anima Mundi, St Ives, England.
Underglass 2. Half Gallery, New York, USA.
2019 Protected By Alarms. Anima Mundi, St Ives, England. Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England.
Till We Have Faces (with Natalia Dias). Ten Gallery, Cardiff, Wales.
2018
As The Crow Flies. bo-lee, London, England.
The Threadneedle Prize for painting and sculpture, Mall Galleries, London, England.
2017
REALLY? Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA.
2016
‘From Silence’, Herrick Gallery, London.
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London.
The Marmite Prize for Painting, Block 336, London & High Lanes Gallery, Ireland.
The Threadneedle Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Mall Galleries, London.
TWO X TWO benefiting amfAR, Foundation for AIDS research, Dallas, Texas, USA.
2014
National Open Art, Somerset House, London. Threadneedle Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Mall Galleries, London.
One’s Self As Another, RWA Bristol, England.
2013
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England.
Threadneedle Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Mall Galleries, London, England.
Welsh Artist of the Year Exhibition, Cardiff.
2012
National Open Art Competition, Somerset House, London, England.
Never, Never, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales.
2011
Hunting The Hunted, bo.lee Gallery, Bath.
Wunderkammer, bo.lee Gallery, Bath.
2010
RWA 158th Autumn Exhibition Bristol.
Here and Now, Newport Museum and Art Galleries, Wales.
RWA 3rd Open Painting Exhibition, RWA, Bristol, England.
2009
RWA 157th Autumn Exhibition, RWA, Bristol.
Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London, England.
2005 & 2008
Purchase Prize, Wales Millennium Centre/Oriel Y Bont, University of Glamorgan, Wales.
2007
RWA Autumn Exhibition, RWA, Bristol, England.
COLLECTIONS
British Museum, London, England
Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas, USA
Hepworth Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England
Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker, Norway
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Long Museum, Shanghai, China
Pond Society, Shanghai, China
Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, Texas, USA
University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, Wales
Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao City, China
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