Amba Sayal-Bennett
Lives and Works in London
Education
2014 – 2018 PhD Art Practice & Learning, Goldsmiths
2018 – 2021 MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art
2012 – 2013 MA History of Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art
2009 – 2012 BFA Fine Art, Oxford University
Upcoming Exhibitions
2024, Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London, GB
Current Exhibitions
2024, Tomorrow, Today, Yesterday, Modern Forms, London, GB
Holding Cosmic Dust, Hot Desque, Corinium Museum, Cirencester, GB
Out of Bounds, Seager Gallery, London, GB
Solo Exhibitions
2023, Architectures of Excess, Carbon12, Dubai, AE
Geometries of Difference, Somerset House, London, GB
2021, A Track to Bare, Carbon 12, Dubai, AE
2020, A Mechanised Thought, Indigo+Madder, London, GB
2019, Every Line Makes a Cut, Carbon 12, Dubai, AE
2017, Plane Maker, Carbon 12, Dubai, AE
2016, Diffraction Metis, Yve Yang Gallery, Boston, US
Deft Nodes, Lundgren Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, ES
2014, Parallax, Centre for Arts and Learning, Goldsmiths, London, GB
Users and Borrowers and Keepers, Lundgren Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, ES
Select Group Exhibitions
2023, Proposals for a Memorial to Partition, Twelve Gates, Philadelphia, US
Ubiquitous no.14, TUBE, Palma de Mallorca, ES
Nine Nodes of Non-Being, 421, Abu Dhabi, AE
The Nights Will Follow The Days, Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa, IN
Asphodel Meadows, Staffordshire St, London, GB
Landscape and Depth, KICHE, Seoul, KR
Boundary, Boundary, Boundary, Cadence, Shanghai, CN
Spirals, Loops, Mutants, K11, Shanghai, CN
One Foot In The Sky, Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer x AORA , Fulmer, GB
Horror in the Modernist Block, IKON, Birmingham, GB
Processing the Past and Digesting the Future, Badr El Jundi, Madrid, ES
Terminal Parlour, Split Gallery, London, GB
Look Mum No Hands, 9 French Place, London, GB
2022, Ancient Vessels, A.P.T. Gallery, London, GB
Introducing Diana, DIANA, New York, US
My Mother Was a Computer, Indigo+Madder, London, GB
Everything at Once, Generation and Display, London, GB
State of Play, Brooke Bennington, London, GB
Testing Grounds, FILET, London, GB
Yours in Truth, Space118, Mubai, IN
Bridging Landscapes, French Riviera, London, GB
City Entwined, Paradise Row, London, GB
Dream Weaver, Grove Collective, London, GB
Synthesis, Saatchi Gallery, London, GB
Modern Relics, FOLD, London, GB
Systems We Have, New Art Projects, London GB
Slow Burn, Indigo+Madder, London, GB
2021, Tomorrow 2021, White Cube, London, GB
Port of Call, Changing Room Gallery, London, GB
AORA Pop-Up, AORA, London, GB
5th Edition, Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, Slough, GB
Preparations, Late Works, London, GB
Peach Fuzz, Haze Projects, London, GB
Recreational Grounds, The Factory Project, London GB
Where Things Land Down, Fels, London, GB
RELIC, A.P.T. Gallery, London, GB
Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London, GB
Proxy, Cromwell Place, London, GB
Abducting The Priestess Might Solve Your Crops, Ergo Collective, Athens, GR
AORA III, AORA, www.aoraspace.com
Old Friends, New Friends, Collective Ending, London, GB
Scenes of Inclination, Manor Place, London, GB
2020, Out of the Woods, Carbon12, Dubai, AE
2019, Odds, TOMA, Southend, GB
Bounds, Cypher BILLBOARD x Skelf, http://www.skelf.org.uk
ABSINTHE §2, Spit and Sawdust, London, GB
Espacio, Luz y Orden, José de laFuente, Santander, ES
A Plot for the Multiverse, Indigo+Madder, London, GB
Carousel, The Koppel Project Central, London, GB
Week 1, Instituting Otherwise Project Space, Delhi, IN
And Proceed To Fill The Next Fold, The Future, Galleri 21, Malmö, SE
A World In Vertigo, Brunel Museum, London, GB
WIP, Royal College of Art, London, GB
2018, FAKERS, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London, GB
RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London, GB
Some Places Exist Only Once, Schimmel Projects Art Centre, Dresden, DE
Opening Remarks, Athr Gallery, Jeddah, SA
As You Become, Exhibit 320, Delhi, IN
When You Travel in Time, Leave Nothing Behind, Lewisham Art House, London, GB
To Our Fellow Artists and Poets Who Are Confused About Which Way to Go, Lundgren Gallery, Palma, ES
ROYGBIV, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, US
2017, Pictures of Nothing, PG Art Gallery, Istanbul, TR
Meaningful Vision, Pembroke College, Oxford, GB
Drifting Here and Now, Here I Am Art Space, Dalian, CN
2016, As You Can See, Exhibit 320, Delhi, IN
Backdrop, Wilsnacker Strasse, Berlin, DE
Mind Out, A.P.T. Gallery, London, GB
2015, UK/raine: Emerging Artists From the UK and Ukraine, Saatchi Gallery, London, GB
Xenotpoia, Gibberd Gallery, Harlow, GB
Avant-Craft, Pal Zileri, London, GB
Twentieth, A.P.T. Gallery, London, GB
2014, Mineshaft, Bunker, London, GB
Old Rope, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, GB
Artworks Open, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London, GB
Morphol Scowl, Piccadilly Place, Manchester, GB
Switch, Pulchri Studio, Den Haag, NL
2012, Saatchi New Sensations, Victoria House, London, GB
The Ruskin Degree Show, The Old Power Station, Oxford, GB
Projects
2019, An Unusual Arrangement, Contemporary Collaborations at Robert Young Antiques, London, GB
Mess Machine, a collaboration with Ralph Hunter-Menzies, UKYA City Takeover, Nottingham, GB
2017, The Box, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, GB
Crazy Talk, a collaboration with Ralph Hunter-Menzies, Cypher BILLBOARD, London, GB
Conference Papers and Talks
2024, Panel Discussion, with Ayesha Singh, Ian Malhotra and Wribhu Borphukon, STIR, New Delhi, IN
2023, Artist Talk, Camberwell College of Art, GB
Artist Talk, Coventry University, GB
2022, Artist Talk, Somerset House, GB
2021, Panel Discussion, with Melanie Pocock and Sarah Forman, AORA, GB
2020, Artist Talk, Simon Fraser University, CA
Artist Talk, Wimbledon College of Arts, GB
Artist Talk, UCA Farnham, GB
2019, Artists in Conversation, with Adwait Singh, Nupur Mathur and Sohrab Hura, IO Project Space, New Delhi, IN
2017, Artist Talk, Cypher Collective, Pembroke College, University of Oxford, GB
Artist Talk, Honorarium by ASC Arts & Humanities Large Grant, Ohio State University, US
2016, Artist Talk, Vinay Sharma Studio, Jaipur, IN
Artist Talk, Yve Yang Gallery, Boston, US
2015, Conference Paper, Discourse, Power, Resistance 15: Creative Spaces For Collective Voices, Goldsmiths, University of London, GB
Published Research
Teaching
2023 – 2024, Interim Specialist Option Leader FAD Drawing and Conceptual Practice, University of the Arts London
2022 – 2024, Associate Lecturer, University of the Arts London
2021 – 2024, Associate Lecturer, University of West England
Awards
2020, Gilbert Bayes Award, Royal Society of Sculptors
New Editions, London Bronze Casting
2014 – 2016, Graduate Studio Award, A.P.T
2014, Griffin Art Prize, Griffin Gallery, Short-listed
WW SOLO Award, WW Gallery
2012, Red Mansion Art Prize, Short-listed
The Ives Prize, The Queen’s College, Oxford University
The Vivien Leigh Prize, The Ashmolean Museum
2011, The Slingsby Prize, The Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University, Short-listed
2010, The Michel Scholarship, The Queen’s College, Oxford University
The Geoffrey Rhodes Prize, The Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University
Residencies
2022, The Derek Hill Foundation Scholarship, British School at Rome, Rome, IT
2020, Arnis Residency, Arnis, DE
2019, Cypher Carving Residency, Dorset, GB
Collections
Saatchi Collection
Western Art Print Room Collection, Ashmolean Museum
Art Jameel
Selected Press
Artforum, October 2017