Zineb Sedira

Nata nel 1963 a Parigi
Vive e lavora a Londra

Formazione:
1998-2003
Royal College of Art: Research studies in the Photography dept., Londra.
1995-1997
Slade School of Art: Master of Fine Art in Media, Londra.
1992-1995
Central Saint Martins School of Art: BA (hons) in Critical Fine Art Practice, Londra.

Mostre personali (selezione dal 2001 al 2010):
2010
- “Gardiennes d'images”, Palais de Tokyo, Parigi, Francia.
- “Les rêves n'ont pas de titre”, MAC - Musée d’Art Contemporain, Marsiglia, Francia.
- “Under the Sky and Over the Sea”, BildMuseets, Umeå University, Svezia.
- “Under the Sky and Over the Sea”, Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen, Danimarca.
- “MiddleSea”, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada.
- “Zineb Sedira”, Musée National Pablo Picasso, La Guerre et la Paix, Vallauris, Francia.
- “Invitation au Voyage”, Galerie Edouard-Manet, Gennevilliers, Francia.
2009
- “Under the Sky and Over the Sea”, Pori Museum, Finlandia.
- “Zineb Sedira: Seafaring”, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, Gran Bretagna.
- “MiddleSea as part of Forex”, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, Sud Africa.
- “Currents of Time”, Rivington Place, Londra, Gran Bretagna.
- “Floating Coffins”, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, Gran Bretagna.
2008
- “Shipwreck: the death of a journey”, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Parigi, Francia.
- “MiddleSea”, Wapping Project, Londra, Gran Bretagna.
- “Zineb Sedira”, Centre Culturel Français, Algeri, Algeria.
2007
- “Videos by Zineb Sedira”, Centre d'Art Contemporain du Parvis, Pau, Francia.
- “Saphir”, Temble Bar Gallery, Dublino, Irlanda.
2006
- “Saphir”, Photographer's Gallery, Londra, Gran Bretagna.
- “Transitional Landscapes”, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Parigi, Francia.
- “Zineb Sedira”, Galerie Esma, Algeri, Centre Culturel Français, Oran and Constantine, Algeria. 2005
- “Zineb Sedira”, OneTwenty Gallery, Gent, Belgium and at Fri-Art, Friburgo, Svizzera.
2004
- “Zineb Sedira: Telling stories with differences”, Cornerhouse, Manchester, Gran Bretagna.
2003
- “Zineb Sedira”, Galleria Sogospatty, Roma, Italia.
- “Regard Croisé”, Arles, Francia.
2002
- Biennale di Fotografia di Firenze e Prato, “Monograph”, Dryphoto arte contemporanea, Prato. Italia.
- “Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles 2002”, 33e edition, Arles, Francia.

Mostre collettive (selezione dal 2000 al 2010):
2010
- “Told, Untold, Retold”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Doha, Qatar.
- “Les Rencontres de Picha 2010”, Lubumbashi, Congo.
- “Living Across. Spaces of Migration”, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria.
- “Entre-temps”, LoftProject Etagi, San Pietroburgo, Russia.
- “Photography as a process of identity”, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgio.
- “Voice Between Lines”, Centre d'Art la Panera, Lleida, Spagna.
- “Journey With No Return. A Foundation”, Rochelle School, Londra, Gran Bretagna.
- “Wild is the Wind”, SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design), Savannah, USA.
2009
- “Frontieres, Les Rencontres de la Photographie”, Bamako, Mali.
- Festival d’Art Contemporain, Algeri, Algeria.
- “Journeys with no return”, Akbank Cultural Centre, Istanbul, Turchia.
- “Femininity/Masculinity”, Espai Visor, Valencia, Spagna.
- “Rebelle. Art and Feminism”, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Olanda.
- “Elle@centrepompidou”, Centre Pompidou, Parigi, Francia.
- “Entre-Temps”, MIS (Museum of the Image and Sound), San Paolo, Brasile.
- “Maritime Chronicles: flow and junctions”, Ausstellungsraum Klingenthal, Kaserne, Basilea, Svizzera.
2008
- “Sphères”, Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Châtel (Seine-et-Marne), Francia.
- “Surreale 2008”, Galleria Mimmoscognamiglio Artecontemporanea, Milano, Italia.
- “Éclats de frontières – Nouvelles acquisitions”, FRAC (Fond Réginal d’Art Contemporain), Marsiglia, Francia.
- “U-turn, 1st Quadrennial for Contemporary Art”, Copenhagen, Danimarca.
- “REVOLUTIONS”, The University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, USA.
- “Body Space Exhibition”, Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery, Carlisle, Gran Bretagna.
- “L’Art au Féminin”, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain d’Alger, Algeri.
2007
- “House Trip”, Berlin Art Fair, Germania.
- “Port Cities, on Mobility and Exhange”, Arnolfini, Bristol, Gran Bretagna.
- “Art Contemporain Arabe”, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain d’Alger, Algeri, Algeria.
- “Her(his)story”, Museum of Cycladic Art, Atene, Grecia.
- “Heterotopias: Society Must Be Defended”, Thessaloniki Biennale, Tessalonica, Grecia.
- “Still Life: Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change”, Sharjah Biennial 8, Emirati Arabi Uniti.
- “Afterlife”, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, Sud Africa.
- “Global Feminism”, Brooklyn Museum, NY, USA.
- “I Am Making Art. 4 Studies on the Artist’s Body: Identity and Transformation”, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Ginevra, Svizzera.
- “Beyond Dust”, Museo Archeologico, Napoli, Italia.
- “Entre Fronteras/Between Borders”, Museo de Arte Contemporanea,Vigo, Spagna.
2006
- “La Video: Un Art, Une Histoire 1965-2005”, showcasing video work from the Centre Georges Pompidou’s collection. Touring internationally.
- “Mankind”, Leuven, Belgio.
- “Exorcising Exoticism”, 2006 Contemporary Art Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan.
- “Why Pictures Now: Photography/Film/Video”, Mumok, Vienna, Austria.
- “The Waiting Place”, Whitstable Biennale 2006, Gran Bretagna.
- “Around the world in 80 days”, ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art and South London Gallery, Gran Bretagna.
- “Une vision du Monde”, la collection de Jean-Conrad et Isabelle Lemaître, La Maison Rouge, Parigi, Francia.
2005
- “The Art of White: painting, photography, installation”, The Lowry, Salford Quays, Gran Bretagna.
- “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, Norvegia.
- “Identità & Nomadismo”, Palazzo delle Papesse-Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italia.
- “Some Stories”, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria. Touring to Minoriten Kultur, Graz, Austria e Kunstverein Bregenz, Austria.
2004
- “Africa Remix”, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germania e Hayward Gallery, Londra, Gran Bretagna. Touring exhibition.
- “Historias; History in the Making”, Photo Espana 2004, Madrid, Spagna.
- “Britannia Works”, Atene, Grecia. - “Stranger than Fiction”, Arts Council Collection. Touring nationally to Leeds City Art Gallery, Carlisle, Aberystwyth, Lincoln, Nottingham, Gran Bretagna.
- “Ficcions Documentals”, Fundació la Caixa, Barcellona, Spagna.
- “Tales of the City”, British Council Exhibition, Londra, Gran Bretagna
- Focus in Arte Fiera 2004, Bologna, Italia.
2003
- “Looking Both Ways”, Museum for African Art, New York, USA.
- “Voyages d’artistes, Algérie 03”, Espace Electra, Parigi, Francia.
- “Gestes, Festival du Printemps de Septembre”, edizione 2003, Tolosa, Francia.
- “Aletheia, The Real of Conceament”, Göteborgs Kontanstmuseum, Svezia.
- “Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary Africa Abroad”, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
- “Stranger, First Triennial of Photography and Video”, Institute of Contemporary Photography, New York, USA.
- “Ouverture Algériennes, créations vivantes”, La Criée centre d’art contemporain, Rennes, Francia.
- “Le XXeme siècle dans l'Art Algérien”, Chateau Borrelli, Marsiglia, Francia.
- “Veil, Walsall Museums and Art Gallery and Bluecoat Gallery”, Liverpool and MOMA, Oxford, Gran Bretagna.
2002
- “Self-Evident: Making the Self the subject of Art from 1970 to the present Day”, Tate Britain, Londra, Gran Bretagna.
- “History/Now”, Stockholm Fotofestival 2002, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Svezia. Touring in Sweden.
- “In/tangible Cartographies: New Arab Video”, Pacific Cinèmatheque, Vancouver, Canada.
- “Fold, City Gallery”, Leicester, Gran Bretagna.
2001
- “Patterns”, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, Gran Bretagna.
- “Mémoires intimes d'un nouveau millénaire”, IV Rencontres de la Photographie africaine, Bamako, Mali.
- “History of our present,” Argos Festival 2001, Cinema Nova, Brussels, Belgio.
- “Authentic/ex-centric: Africa In and Out Africa”, 49th Biennale di Venezia, Italia.
- “ev+a”, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick Annual Biennial, Iralanda.
2000
- “More than meets the eye”, Victoria and Albert Museum, Londra, Gran Bretagna.
- “Ekbatana?”, Nikollaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Danimarca.
- “Insertion: Self and Other”, Apex Art C.P, New York, USA.
- “Artists’ Wallpapers: A Contemporary View”, Victoria and Albert Museum, Londra, Gran Bretagna.

Collezioni pubbliche:
- Deutsche Bank
- Ernst&Young, Gran Bretagna.
- Fond Régional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC) Paca, Marsiglia, Francia.
- Sharjah Art Museum Collection, AUE.
- Fond Régional d’Art Contemporain d’Alsace (FRAC).
- Fond Municipal d’Art Contemporain (FMAC), Parigi, Francia.
- Centre Georges Pompidou, Photography and New Media dept, Parigi, Francia.
- Tate, Londra, Gran Bretagna.
- Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, video dept., Parigi, Francia.
- Cité Nationale de l’Histoire et de l’Immigration, Parigi, Francia.
- Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (MUMOK), Vienna, Austria.
- Wolverhampton Arts and Museums, Gran Bretagna.
- Musée Reattu, collection from the ‘Rencontres de la Photographie’, Arles, Francia.
- Fond National d'Art Contemporain (FNAC), Photography, Parigi, Francia.
- The Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, Exeter University, Gran Bretagna.
- Arts Council of England, Londra, Gran Bretagna.
- Whitworth Art Gallery, Contemporary Wall Paper Collections, Manchester, Gran Bretagna.
- Victoria and Albert Museum, Contemporary Wall Paper Collections, Londra, Gran Bretagna.
- Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow Museums, Scozia, Gran Bretagna.

Premi:
2009
SAM Art Prize, Parigi.
2004
Decibel Award, Arts Council, Londra.
2001
Prix AfAA, Laureat 2001: IV Rencontres de la photographie africaine, Bamako 2001, Mali.
2000
Westminster Arts Council, Film and Video Bursaries, Londra.
1999
Artsadmin Artists Bursary, London & Artists film and video national fund, The Arts Council of England.