Born in Paris in 1963. Lives in London and works between Alger, Paris and London.
SOLO SHOWS
- 2013
Lighthouse in the Sea of Time, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
Lighthouse in the Sea of Time, Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, USA.
Géo-portrait/Géo-Portail, Galerie La Jetée, J1 Grand Port Maritime, Marseille, France.
- 2012
National Glass Centre, University of Sunderland, UK.
Darat El Funun, Amman, Jordan.
- 2011
Beneath the surface, kamel mennour, Paris.
- 2010
Gardiennes d’images, Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
Les rêves n’ont pas de titres, Musée d’Art Contemporain MAC, Marseille.
Under the Sky and Over the Sea, BildMuseets, Umeå University, Sweden.
Under the Sky and Over the Sea, Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen, Denmark.
MiddleSea, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada.
Zineb Sedira, Musée National Pablo Picasso, La Guerre et la Paix, Vallauris, France.
Invitation au Voyage, Galerie Edouard-Manet, Gennevilliers, France.
- 2009
Under the Sky and Over the Sea, Pori Museum, Finland.
Zineb Sedira: Seafaring, John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, UK.
MiddleSea as part of Forex, at Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
Zineb Sedira: Currents of Time, Rivington Place, London.
Zineb Sedira: Floating Coffins, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK.
- 2008
Shipwreck: the death of a journey, kamel mennour, Paris.
MiddleSea, Wapping Project, London.
Zineb Sedira, Centre Culturel Français, Algiers, Algeria.
- 2007
Videos by Zineb Sedira, Centre d'Art Contemporain du Parvis, Pau, France.
Saphir, Temble Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
- 2006
Saphir, Photographers Gallery, London (Catalogue).
Transitional Landscape, kamel mennour, Paris.
Zineb Sedira, Galerie Esma, Algiers, Centre Culturel Français, Oran and Constantine, Algeria.
- 2005
Zineb Sedira, OneTwenty Gallery, Gent, Belgium and at Fri-Art, Fribourg, Swizerland.
- 2004
Zineb Sedira: Telling stories with differences, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK (Catalogue/DVD) Touring exhibition.
- 2003
Zineb Sedira, Galleria Sogospatty, Rome, Italy (Catalogue).
Regard Croisé, Arles, France.
- 2002
Biennal of Photography in Florence and Prato, Monograph, Dryphoto arte contemporanea, Prato, Italy (catalogue).
Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles 2002, 33e Édition, Arles, France (Catalogue).
GROUP SHOWS
- 2014
The Divine Comedy, MMK Museum für Mordern Kunst, Germany and Smithsonian Museum, Washington, USA.
- 2013
Dinard, L'Amour Atomique, Palais des Arts et du Festival de Dinard, France.
Becoming Independent, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland.
Homelands, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi ; Harrington Street Art Centre, Calcutta ; Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Bombay; National Gallery of Modern Art, Bangalore.
Une brève histoire de lignes, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France.
Ici, ailleurs, La Friche Belle de Mai, as part of Marseille-Provence 2013: European Capital of Culture, Marseille, France.
Les galeries de la Méditerranée, Mucem, Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerrannée, Marseille, France.
Le Pont, Musée d’Art Contemporain, MAC, Marseille, France.
- 2012
Family Matters: The Family in British Art, Tate Britain, London, UK.
Imagined Places, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam.
Migrations, Tate Britain, London, UK.
The Mediterranean Approach, Musée d’Art Contemporain, MAC, Marseille, France.
Once Upon a Time the Screen, Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain.
State of Transit, Open Space, Open Systems, Vienna, Austria.
Shkoun ahna ?, Museum of Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia.
Usages et convivialité, Maison des Arts de Malakoff, France.
Liquid Archive, Monash University Museum of Art, MUMA, Australia.
Destination Sud, MuBE, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The Mediterranean Approach, SESC Pinheiros, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- 2011
The Mediterranean Approach, Palazzo Zenobio, 54th Venice Biennale, Italy.
New Cartographies, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK.
A Sense of Perspective, Tate Liverpool, UK.
Hauntings 1 - Ghost Box Media. Secret and uncanny presence in media, art and pop, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz, Austria.
- 2010
Told; Untold; Retold, Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar.
Les Rencontres de Picha 2010, Lubumbashi, Congo.
Living Across, Spaces of Migration, Academy of Fine Arts in, Vienna, Austria.
Entre-temps, LoftProject Etagi, Saint Petersbourg, Russia.
An Useful Dream, African Photography 1960-2010, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium.
Voice Between Lines, Centre d’art La Panera, Lleida, Spain.
Journey with no return, A Foundation, Rochelle School; London.
Wild is the Wind, Savannah College of Art and Design SCAD, Savannah, USA.
- 2009
Frontières, Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Bamako, Mali.
Festival d’Art Contemporain, Algiers, Algeria.
Journeys with no return, Akbank Cultural Centre, Istanbul.
Femininity/Masculinity, Espai Visor, Valencia, Spain.
Rebelle. Art and Feminism, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Holland (Catalogue).
Elles@centrepmpidou, Pompidou Centre, Paris (Catalogue).
Entre -Temps, MIS (Museum of the Image and Sound), Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Maritime Chronicles: flow and junctions, Ausstellungsraum Klingenthal, Kaserne, Basel, Switzerland.
2008
Sphères, Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Châtel (Seine-et-Marne), France.
Surreale 2008, Galleria Mimmo Scognamiglio Gallery, Milan.
Éclats de frontières – Nouvelles acquisitions, FRAC (Fond Réginal d’Art Contemporain, Marseilles).
U-turn, 1st Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark (Sept/Oct) (Catalogue).
REVOLUTIONS, The University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, USA.
Body Space Exhibition, Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery, Carlisle, UK.
L’Art au Féminin, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain d’Alger , Algiers (Catalogue).
- 2007
House Trip, Berlin Art Fair, Germany.
Port Cities, on Mobility and Exchange, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK.
Art Contemporain Arabe, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain d’Alger, Algiers, Algeria (Catalogue).
Her(his)story, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, Greece.
Heterotopias: Society Must Be Defendend, Thessaloniki Biennale, Greece.
Still Life: Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change, Sharjah Biennial 8, United Arab Emirates (Catalogue).
Afterlife, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (Catalogue).
Global Feminism, Brooklyn Museum, NY, USA (Catalogue).
I Am Making Art. 4 Studies on the Artist’s Body: Identity and Transformation, Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève, Switzerland.
Beyond Dust, the Archeological Museum, Naples, Italy (catalogue).
Entre Fronteras/Between Borders, Museum of Contemporary Art,Vigo, Spain (catalogue).
- 2006
La Video: Un Art, Une Histoire 1965-2005, showcasing video work from the Centre Georges Pompidou’s collection.
Touring internationally (catalogue).
Mankind, Leuven, Belgium (Catalogue).
Exorcising Exoticism, 2006 Contemporary Art Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan (Catalogue).
Why Pictures Now: Photography/Film/Video, Mumok, Vienna, Austria (Catalogue).
The Waiting Place, Whitstable Biennale 2006, UK.
Around the world in 80 days, ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art and South London Gallery, UK (Catalogue).
Une vision du Monde, la collection de Jean-Conrad et Isabelle Lemaître, La Maison Rouge, Paris (Catalogue).
- 2005
The Art of White: painting, photography, installation, The Lowry, Salford Quays, UK (Catalogue).
British Art Show 06, opening at Baltic, Gateshead, touring to Manchester, Castle Museum, across several venues in Nottingham and Bristol..
Meeting Point, Stenersen, Museum, Oslo, Norway (Catalogue).
Identità & Nomadismo, Palazzo delle Papesse,- Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy (Catalogue).
Some Stories, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria. Touring to Minoriten Kultur Graz: May/July 10 and Magazin 4/ Kunstverein Bregenz.
- 2004
Africa Remix, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Hayward Gallery, London. Touring exhibition (Publication).
Historias; ‘History in the Making’: Photo Espana 2004 Madrid, Spain (Catalogue).
Britannia Works, Athens, Greece (April) (Catalogue).
Stranger than Fiction, Arts Council Collection. Touring nationally to Leeds City Art Gallery (April), Carlisle, Aberystwyth, Lincoln, Nottingham…(Catalogue).
‘Ficcions’ Documentals, Fundació la Caixa, Barcelona (Catalogue).
Tales of the City, British Council Exhibition, London Focus in 2004 Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy (Catalogue).
- 2003
Looking Both Ways, Museum for African Art, New York, USA (Catalogue).
Voyages d’artistes, Algérie 03, Espace Electra, Paris, France (Oct.) (Catalogue).
Gestes, Festival du Printemps de Septembre, édition 2003, Toulouse, France (Catalogue).
Aletheia, The Real of Conceament, Göteborgs Kontanstmuseum, Sweden (Catalogue).
Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary Africa Abroad, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri, USA (Catalogue).
Stranger, First Triennial of Photography and Video, Institute of Contemporary Photography, New York, USA(Catalogue).
Ouverture Algériennes, créations vivantes, La Criée centre d’art contemporain, Rennes, France (Catalogue).
Le XXeme siècle dans l'Art Algérien, Chateau Borrelli, Marseilles (Publication).
Veil: Walsall Museums and Art Gallery, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool and MOMA, Oxford. Walsall. Touring to: Bluecoat
- 2002
Self-Evident: Making the Self the subject of Art from 1970 to the present Day, Tate Britain, London.
History/Now, Stockholm Fotofestival 2002, Liljevalchs Konsthall. Touring in Sweden. (Catalogue).
In/tangible Cartographies: New Arab Video, Pacific Cinèmatheque, Vancouver, Canada.
Fold, City Gallery, Leicester, UK (Catalogue).
- 2001
Patterns, Spacex Gallery and Exeter Cathedral, Exeter, UK.
Mémoires intimes d'un nouveau millénaire, IV Rencontres de la Photographie africaine, Bamako 2001, Mali. (Catalogue).
History of our present, Argos Festival 2001, Cinema Nova, Brussels, Belguim. (Catalogue).
Authentic/ex-centric: Africa In and Out Africa, 49th VENICE BIENNALE, Italy. (Catalogue/book).
ev+a, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick Annual Biennial, Republic of Ireland. (Catalogue).
- 2000
More than meets the eye, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK, (Catalogue).
Ekbatana?, Nikollaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark, (Catalogue).
Insertion: Self and Other, Apex Art C.P, New York, U.S.A.
‘Artists’ Wallpapers: A Contemporary View’, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.
- 1999
From Where - to Here, Art from London, Konsthallen Göteborg Museum, Sweden, (Catalogue).
Dialogue of the Present, Women's Art Library, UK touring exhibition, (publication).
The Order of Things, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK.
Where are you from?, BM Contemporary Art Centre, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 1998
Is Art Beneath You?, Serpentine Gallery, London, (Catalogue).
Showgirls, Billboard Project, Women's Art Factory, Sheffield.
Return of the Showgirls, Women's Art Factory, The Workstation, Sheffield.
- 1997
Point of Entry, Cable Street Gallery, London, UK.
Out of the Blue, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow Museums, Scotland, UK, (Catalogue).
COMMANDE PUBLIQUE
- 2012
Place du 17 octobre 1961, Ville de Gennevilliers, France
COLLECTIONS
Deutsche Bank.
Ernst&Young, UK.
Fond Régional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC) Paca, Marseille.
Sharjah Art Museum Collection, AUE.
Fond Régional d’Art Contemporain d’Alsace (FRAC).
Fond Municipal d’Art Contemporain (FMAC), de la ville de Paris.
Centre Georges Pompidou, Photography and New Media dept, Paris, France.
Tate, London.
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, video dept., Paris.
Cité Nationale de l’Histoire et de l’Immigration, Paris.
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (MUMOK), Vienna, Austria.
Wolverhampton Arts and Museums, U.K.
Musée Reattu, collection from the ‘Rencontres de la Photographie’, Arles, France.
Fond National d'Art Contemporain (FNAC), Photography, Paris, France.
The Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, Exeter University, UK.
Arts Council of England, London, UK.
Whitworth Art Gallery, Contemporary Wall Paper Collections, Manchester, UK.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Contemporary Wall Paper Collections, London, UK.
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow Museums, Scotland.
Private collectors
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art in Embassies - U.S. Department of State, Washington.
Arts Council of England, London.
Centre national des arts plastiques, ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Paris.
Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris.
Collection d’Isabelle et Jean-Conrad Lemaître.
Deutsche Bank Collection, Frankfurt.
Ernst and Young, Paris.
Fonds municipal d’art contemporain de la Ville de Paris.
FRAC Alsace, Sélestat.
FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille.
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow Museums, Glasgow.
Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Tunis.
Mathaf - Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha.
Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris.
Musée national de l’histoire et des cultures de l’immigration / Cité nationale de l’histoire, Paris.
Neuflize Vie, Paris.
SACEM, Paris.
SAM Art Projects, Paris.
Sharjah Art Museum Collection, Sharjah.
Tate collection, London.
The Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, Exeter University, Exeter.
The mumok - museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien Collection, Vienna.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Contemporary Wall Paper Collections, London.
Whitworth Art Gallery, Contemporary Wall Paper Collections, Manchester.
Wolverhampton arts and museums, Wolverhampton.
PRIZES & AWARDS
- 2011
Dazibao Prize, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Canada.
- 2010
Prix SAM, Paris.
Prix Jarman, Film London, Channel 4, Whitechapel Gallery, Sélectionnée.
- 2004
Decibel Award, Arts Council, London.
- 2001
Prix AfAA, Laureat 2001: IV Rencontres de la photographie africaine, Bamako 2001, Mali.
- 2000
Westminster Arts Council, Film and Video Bursaries, London.
- 1999
Artsadmin Artists Bursary, London & Artists film and video national fund, The Arts Council of England.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- 2011
Beneath the Surface produced by kamel mennour, Paris for the solo exhibition at the Gallery in September 2011. With texts by Coline Milliard (free-lance curator/writer), Steven Bode (director of Film and Video Umbrella, London) and Erik Verhagen (free-lance writer/academic). Also an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist (co-director of the Serpentine Gallery, London).
- 2008
Rachel Garfield: Zineb Sedira for the New Media Encyclopedia website of Baeubourg Art center, Paris. Cherry Smith:
The Work of Zineb Sedira for Lux Online. n°4, juin, juillet, aôut.
- 2007
Nadira Laggoune: Shifting Perceptions for Canvas Magazine.
- 2006
Richard Dyers, Saphir and Elvan Zabunyan, Bringing time to the present: some considerations on the recent work of
Zineb Sedira for the solo exhibition catalogue: Zineb Sedira: Saphir.
- 2005
Sarah Zürcher, Syncretic Landscapes and Outlooks, in exhibition catalogue Meeting Point, Stenersen, Museum, Oslo,
Norway.
- 2003
Fatma Zohra Zamoun, in Ouverture Algériennes, créations vivantes. Published by La Criée centre d’art contemporain,
Rennes, France.
Teresa Macri, ‘Elle’ in ‘Zineb Sedira’, solo catalogue, Galeria Sogospatti, Rome.
Edith Marie Pasquier, ‘Letters of Transit’ in Looking Both Ways, Museum for African Art.
Tina Sotiriadi, Gabriel Coxhead, Simon Njami in ‘Zineb Sedira, a story told with differences’, Conerhouse catalogue/DVD.
- 2002
Simon Njami, Blink, (100 photographers, 10 curators, 10 writers), Phaidon Press.
- 2001
Rachel Garfield, Zineb Sedira,
Gilane Tawadros, The Visible and the Invisible: The Work of Zineb Sedira, Authentic/ex-centric: Africa In and Out Africa,
59th Venice Biennale.
- 2000
Fran Lloyd, Arab women artists: issues of representation and gender in contemporary British visual culture.
Salah M. Hassan, Moi et l’Autre, l’Art dans le monde, exhibition catalogue, Paris, France.
- 1999
Edith Marie Pasquier, Oblique Gaze, Dialogue of the Present, exhibition catalogue/publication.
- 1998
Edith Marie Pasquier, essay for exhibition catalogue, Is Art beneath You?, Serpentine Gallery, London.
- 1997
Edith Marie Pasquier, Out of the Blue catalogue, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow.