Sophie Michael

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B. 1985

Lives & works in London

 

EDUCATION

2009-2012 Postgraduate Diploma Fine Art, Royal Academy Schools, London

2004–2008 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, London

2003–2004 Diploma in Foundation Studies (Art & Design), Chelsea College of Art and Design, London

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012  

Astrid Colours, FOLD Gallery, London

Intra-spectral, The Gallery at Idea Store Whitechapel, London

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS / PERFORMANCES 
 
2012  

Schools Show 2012, Royal Academy Schools

Ruby, Gallery Vela, Londoncurated by Eddie Peake

SWITCH, Inaugural exhibition at BALTIC 39, selected by Phyllida Barlow, Newcastle Upon Tyne

16mm Film Screening, Scratch Nights, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes

Analogue Recurring screening, Lo & Behold Recordings, London

Finger, Hidde van Seggelen Gallery, London

Chromotherapeutic Strips, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam

2011

Alternative Visions; Space is the Place: Recent Avant Garde Shorts, Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley

A Past Merely Overlaid With Presentness, Culture Lab OnSite, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne

Video Takeaway programmed by Come to Ours, Plymouth

Wavelengths 1: Analogue Arcadia, 36th Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto

To What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong?, Early Monthly Segments screening #27 co-presented with The Power Plant, Toronto

Sirdar Road, 19 Sirdar Road, London
 
Premiums 2011, Royal Academy Schools Interim Show, Royal Academy, London

2010

Point of Address; Outpost Members Show 2010, Outpost Gallery, Norwich

Spurt, Source Atelier d’Art, Encausse les Thermes, France

RE:animate, Oriel Davies Open 2010, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Wales

MicroPerformance, The Agency, London

Umbraculum, Caravan Projects at 99 Clerkenwell Road (Camden Pop-up Shop scheme), London

Being Is What It Is, 38 Elderfield Road, London
Resist & Shine, Katy Kirbach with Sophie Michael, The East Room, London

Salon Video Art Prize 2010, Matt Roberts Arts, London

OUTPOST members screening, Norwich Arts Centre, as part of AURORA 2009: Common Ground

2009

phlizz, Acme Studios, London

a-brassive, BRASS: Durham International Festival 2009, Durham Town Hall, Durham

Exploring Nostalgia: The Allenheads Experience, Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Northumberland

AURORA 2009 Tour: Chapter Gallery, Cardiff; Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle Upon Tyne; CCA, Glasgow; Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich; Black Box Café, Belfast; Arnolfini, Bristol

2008  

Hannah Marsden and Sophie Michael, ACAshop and Heritage Centre, Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Northumberland

AURORA 2008 The Infinite Measure, Cinema City, Norwich
Open Studio, ACAshop, Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Northumberland

Slade Shows, Slade Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London

2007

Everlasting Materiality, Ada Street Gallery, London

 

RESIDENCIES / AWARDS

2012

Prince of Wales Bursary at the British School at Athens

2010

Short Residency at Spurt, Source Atelier d’Art, Encausse les Thermes, France

2009

Short Residency at Sculpture Studio, Chapter Gallery, Cardiff

2008 – 2009

6 Month Graduate Residency at Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Northumberland, funded by Northern Cultural Skills Partnership

 

PUBLICATIONS

Frieze, Issue 141 September 2011; 20th Anniversary Issue, 20/20

AURORA Edition 2 DVD, Published 2008 in UK by AURORA

Introducing, Issue 9, Alexa Kusbar in conversation with Katy Kirbach and Sophie Michael

<b>Title: </b>Astrid Colours<br /><b>Year: </b>2010 - 12<br /><b>Medium: </b> Two screen 16mm film projection, colour, silent; plinth, painted ply<br /><b>Size: </b>Two  loops, 3’30 and 1’30
<b>Title: </b>Astrid Colours<br /><b>Year: </b>2010 - 12<br /><b>Medium: </b> Two screen 16mm film projection, colour, silent; plinth, painted ply<br /><b>Size: </b>Two  loops, 3’30 and 1’30
<b>Title: </b>Astrid Colours<br /><b>Year: </b>2010 - 12<br /><b>Medium: </b> Two screen 16mm film projection, colour, silent; plinth, painted ply<br /><b>Size: </b>Two  loops, 3’30 and 1’30
<b>Title: </b>Astrid Colours<br /><b>Year: </b>2010 - 12<br /><b>Medium: </b> Two screen 16mm film projection, colour, silent; plinth, painted ply<br /><b>Size: </b>Two  loops, 3’30 and 1’30
<b>Title: </b>Astrid Colours<br /><b>Year: </b>2010 - 12<br /><b>Medium: </b> Two screen 16mm film projection, colour, silent; plinth, painted ply<br /><b>Size: </b>Two  loops, 3’30 and 1’30
<b>Title: </b>Astrid Colours<br /><b>Year: </b>2010 - 12<br /><b>Medium: </b> Two screen 16mm film projection, colour, silent; plinth, painted ply<br /><b>Size: </b>Two  loops, 3’30 and 1’30
<b>Title: </b>Astrid Colours<br /><b>Year: </b>2010 - 12<br /><b>Medium: </b> Two screen 16mm film projection, colour, silent; plinth, painted ply<br /><b>Size: </b>Two  loops, 3’30 and 1’30
<b>Title: </b>Astrid Colours<br /><b>Year: </b>2010 - 12<br /><b>Medium: </b> Two screen 16mm film projection, colour, silent; plinth, painted ply<br /><b>Size: </b>Two  loops, 3’30 and 1’30