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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