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