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Sam Austen
Born 1986, London, UK
Lives and works in London
Education
2014-2017 – Postgraduate Diploma Fine Art, Royal Academy Schools, London, UK
2006 – 2009 – BA (Hons) Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art, London, UK
2008 – Erasmus Exchange, Wießensee Kunsthocschule, Berlin, DE
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2021
• Sentient Summer – with Fani Parali, Sundy, London, UK
2018
• Hologram Burnt On To The Retina, Farbvision, Berlin, DE
2017
• Run!! For The Present, Deptford X Festival, Lewisham Art House, London, UK
• Somehow Eaten In The Dark, SET Space, London, UK
2014
• A Cool Drink To Cheek – with Fani Parali, Plaza Plaza, London, UK
• Such Animals, Paradise Row, London, UK
2010
• Angry Film, The Sunday Painter, London, UK
2009
• A Mouth To Suck Your Sap – with Alex Rathbone, The Sunday Painter, Bold Tendencies III, London, UK
Group Exhibitions
2021
• Drawing Biennial 2021, Drawing Room, London, UK
2019
• Greetings, Mauve, Vienna, AU
• B, Belmacz, London, UK
• Image Drum, Royal Academy, London, UK
• Out of Eye, Laure Genillard, London, UK
• Drawing Biennial 2019, Drawing Room, London, UK
2018
• New Work II: Material, The Cob Gallery, London, UK
• Chumming, The Pipe Factory, Glasgow, UK
2017
• Like Honey From A Weed, Cass Sculpture Foundation, West Sussex, UK
• Pressing Inertia, Enclave Lab, London, UK
• Bearing Liability, Strange Cargo, Folkestone, UK
• Royal Academy Schools Show 2017, Royal Academy Schools, London, UK
• At Last, So It Goes, Turf Projects, Croydon, UK
• Drawing Biennial 2017, The Drawing Room, London, UK
2016
• Sam Austen, Marte Eknaes, Andrew Mealor, Laure Genillard, London, UK
• Premiums Interim Projects, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2015
• Let’s Get Inside Everything, MilMa, London, UK
• Tara Has No Rooms Inside, Fountayne Road, London, UK
• Drawing Biennial 2015, The Drawing Room, London, UK
2014
• Tomb, Shrine, Survey-marker, Spare part, Enclave, London, UK
• Dreamland, Garis & Hahn, New York, NY, USA
2013
• Action! Moving Image Abstraction, Soho House, Miami, FL, USA
• Open Heart Surgery, The Moving Museum, London, UK
• Obscured Exchange, APT Gallery, London, UK
• The Instability of the Image, Paradise Row, London, UK
• V22 Collection Show, V22, London, UK
• Drawing Biennial 2013, Drawing Room, London, UK
2012
• Young London, V22, London, UK
• You Aren’t Anything, You Are Everything, The Duchy, Glasgow, UK
2011
• Seconds, The Sunday Painter, London, UK
• TVOD, Transition Gallery, London, UK
2010
• Land Without A Map, Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park London, UK
• Film / Video / Performance – Wimbledon College of Art, London, UK
2009
• Memory Evaporate, The Trafalgar Hotel, London, UK
• Chelsea College of Art & Design Undergraduate Degree Show, Chelsea College of Art, London, UK
• Moistworks, Hold & Freight Gallery, London, UK
2008
• Black as a Hand in an Evening Glove, Tannery Arts, London, UK
2007
• Black Special, Job Centre, Putney Bridge Road, London, UK
Fairs
2019
• Draw Art Fair, Cob Gallery, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2018
• Loop, Cob Gallery, Barcelona, ESP
Awards
2009 – ACME Studio Prize Chelsea – 6 month studio award courtesy of ACME studios