Amba Sayal-Bennett (1991)
Lives and Works in London
Education
2014 – 2018 PhD Art Practice & Learning, Goldsmiths
2018 – 2020 MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art
2012 – 2013 MA History of Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art
2009 – 2012 BFA Fine Art, Oxford University
Forthcoming Exhibitions
2019, Bounds, Cypher BILLBOARD x Skelf, http://www.skelf.org.uk
2019, Espacio, Luz y Orden, José de laFuente, Santander, ES
Current Exhibitions
2019, ABSINTHE §2, Spit and Sawdust, London, UK
2019, A Plot for the Multiverse, Indigo+Madder, London, UK
Solo Exhibitions
2017, Plane Maker, Carbon 12, Dubai, AE
2016, Diffraction Metis, Yve Yang Gallery, Boston, US
2016, Deft Nodes, Lundgren Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, ES
2014, Parallax, Centre for Arts and Learning, Goldsmiths, London, GB
2014, Users and Borrowers and Keepers, Lundgren Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, ES
Select Group Exhibitions
2019, Carousel, The Koppel Project Central, London, UK
2019, Week 1, Instituting Otherwise Project Space, Delhi, IN
2019, And Proceed To Fill The Next Fold, The Future, Galleri 21, Malmö, SE
2019, A World In Vertigo, Brunel Museum, London, GB
2019, WIP, Royal College of Art, London, GB
2018, FAKERS, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London, GB
2018, RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London, GB
2018, Some Places Exist Only Once, Schimmel Projects Art Centre, Dresden, DE
2018, Opening Remarks, Athr Gallery, Jeddah, SA
2018, As You Become, Exhibit 320, Delhi, IN
2018, When You Travel in Time, Leave Nothing Behind, Lewisham Art House, London, GB
2018, To Our Fellow Artists and Poets Who Are Confused About Which Way to Go, Lundgren Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, ES
2018, ROYGBIV, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, US
2017, Pictures of Nothing, PG Art Gallery, Istanbul, TR
2017, Meaningful Vision, Pembroke College, Oxford, GB
2017, Drifting Here and Now, Here I Am Art Space, Dalian, CN
2016, As You Can See, Exhibit 320, Delhi, IN
2016, Backdrop, Wilsnacker Strasse, Berlin, DE
2016, Mind Out, A.P.T. Gallery, London, GB
2015, UK/raine: Emerging Artists From the UK and Ukraine, Saatchi Gallery, London, GB
2015, Xenotpoia, Gibberd Gallery, Harlow, GB
2015, Avant-Craft, Pal Zileri, London, GB
2015, Twentieth, A.P.T. Gallery, London, GB
2014, Mineshaft, Bunker, London, GB
2014, Old Rope , Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, GB
2014, Artworks Open, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London, GB
2014, Morphol Scowl, Piccadilly Place, Manchester, GB
2014, Switch, Pulchri Studio, Den Haag, NL
2012, Saatchi New Sensations, Victoria House, London, GB
2012, The Ruskin Degree Show, The Old Power Station, Oxford, GB
Projects
2019, An Unusual Arrangement, Contemporary Collaborations at Robert Young Antiques, London, GB
2019, Mess Machine, a collaboration with Ralph Hunter-Menzies, UKYA City Takeover, Nottingham, GB
2017, The Box, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, GB
2017, Crazy Talk, a collaboration with Ralph Hunter-Menzies, Cypher BILLBOARD, London, GB
Conference Papers and Talks
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
2017, Artist Talk, Honorarium by ASC Arts & Humanities Large Grant, Ohio State University, US
2016, Artist Talk, Vinay Sharma Studio, Jaipur, IN
2016, 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
Awards and Residencies
2019, Cypher Carving Residency, Cypher Collective, Dorset, GB
2014 – 2016, Graduate Studio Award, A.P.T
2014, Griffin Art Prize, Griffin Gallery, Short-listed
2014, WW SOLO Award, WW Gallery
2012, Red Mansion Art Prize, Short-listed
2012, The Ives Prize, The Queen’s College, Oxford University
2012, 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
2010, The Geoffrey Rhodes Prize, The Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University
Collections
Saatchi Collection
Western Art Print Room Collection, Ashmolean Museum
Art Jameel
Selected Press