Sara Bjarland

SARA BJARLAND - CURRICULUM VITAE

Born Helsinki, 1981. Living and working in Amsterdam and occasionally London and Helsinki.

Member of MUU artists’ association (www.muu.fi)

Co-founder of WAAR artist initiative (www.waarprojects.org)

Education

2007-2009 MA Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image, Universiteit van Amsterdam

2005-2007 MFA Fine Art Media, Slade School of Fine Art, London

2001-2004 BA Photography, Kent Institute of Art and Design, Rochester, UK

2000-2001 Photography foundation course, Västra Nylands folkhögskola, Karis, Finland

Solo exhibitions

2011 Possible wings, C3 Gallery, Amsterdam

2010 The Parrot and Other Moments, Vacant, Tokyo

2008 Expansion, Galleri Sinne, Helsinki

Selected group exhibitions & screenings

2012

Residu 2, Kunsthal 52, Den Helder (NL), 28 January - 24 March 2012

2011

New Energy, upcoming artists from Amsterdam West, Kunst en Huis, 16.12.2011-15.1.2012

Nuoret/De Unga/Young artists 2011 at Kunsthalle, Helsinki, 2.12.2011 - 8.1.2012

hard//hooft fundraising exhibition, Artpocalypse Collective, Amsterdam

Veranda selected for Råfilm, a TV-program about young independent filmmakers on Finnish national channel FST/YLE, 6.11.2011

Group show, C3 Gallery, Amsterdam

Ik sta in de supermarkt, group exhibition curated by WAAR, at Museumnacht Delft

The Open Prize in video painting, produced by The Open Gallery, Shoreditch Town Hall, London

Blossom selected for Rakkautta ja Anarkiaa film festival by Kino Cartes

Blossom selected for KINO Cartes, March/April selection. A display window for experimental video art in Helsinki

Salon Photo Prize, Matt Roberts Arts project space, London

2010

Impakt Festival, Panorama Event Night: Slightly Disrupted, Utrecht (NL)

Visions in the Nunnery, The Nunnery Gallery, London

RE:animate, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Wales

Tenderflix, experimental film festival, Tenderpixel Gallery, London

Atmosphere, InSpace Gallery, Edinburgh

Field Broadcast, curated by Rebecca Birch and Rob Smith, Wysing Arts Contemporary, Cambridge

Musrara Mix Art Festival, Jerusalem

Salon Video Prize, Matt Roberts Arts project space, London

moves10 - International Festival for Movement on Screen, Liverpool

Still Life, curated by Ravit Harari. Dana Art Gallery, Yad Mordechai, Tel Aviv

The Open West, The Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (UK)

Said the Projector to the Screen, Gallery Soap, Kitakyushu, Japan

2009

End of Summer, Plan B project space, Amsterdam

Mayday! Mayday! Plan B project space, Amsterdam

2008

Taming the Untamable, Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem (NL)

Highlights, Fullersta Bio Konsthall, Huddinge (SE)

Pulp Dreams - programme on Souvenirs from Earth art tv channel (DE)

Le:60 – 1 Minute Film Fest (USA)

9 from Slade, Fullersta Bio Konsthall, Huddinge (SE)

Impulsive Random Platform screening, London

Lumen Eclipse – selection and screening at Harvard Sq, Cambridge, MA (USA)

2007

AURORA International Animation Festival, Norwich (UK)

GradFab 07, The best of video art, organised by The Video Art Gallery, London

Circles and Loops, duo exhibition with Emma Wieslander, House Gallery, London

Turtle, Woburn Square Studios, London

2006

Still&Sparkling, Galerie Metis, Amsterdam

Blink, Gasworks Gallery, London

Supershorts Film Festival, London

Boxed Potential, Expodium, Utrecht (NL)

In rest of the room, art video screening, Kunstverein Langenhagen (DE)

IS700 experimental film & video festival, Egilsstadir (IS)

Film 9, Arbetets Museum, Norrköping (SE)

FlixFest video festival, South London Gallery, London

2004 This Living Thing, Royal Society of Art, London

2003 Changing.room, Spitalfields market, London

2001 Galleri Zebra, Karis (FI)

Publications

Residu2 catalogue, Fonds BKVB & Kunsthal 52, 2012 (upcoming)

Tenderflix DVD, produced by Tenderpixel Gallery, London, 2010

RE:animate, exhibition catalogue, Oriel Davies Gallery, 2010

Gränsland, NyTid nr. 51-52, 2009

Enter: Press, volume 3 (How to become a super 8 camera), May 2009

9 From Slade, exhibition catalogue, 2008

IRP (Impulsive Random platform) 8 special DVD supplement, 2008

AURORA Edition 1 DVD, 2007

Channels - with Naheed Raza, audio CD by Slade Audio Club, 2007

Awards & residencies

Fonds BKVB Residency at het Pompgemaal, Den Helder, May 2011

Svenska Kulturfonden, Finland. 1-year working grant, 2010

NAN – Go and See bursary, 2008

Svenska Kulturfonden, Finland. Exhibition grant, 2008

AHRC Professional Preparation Masters Award, 2006

Runner up - Flix36 short film competition, London, January 2006

Svenska Kulturfonden, Finland. Project grant, 2004

Artist in residence - Centre de Sculpture, Montolieu, France. 2003 and 2005

Publicity

My Dream-artist page, ‘Blue1 Dream’ on-board airline magazine, November 2011 issue

Radio Amsterdam FM - Interview about my exhibition Possible wings. 19 July 2011

hard//hoofd kiest: An interview with me on the cultural web journal hard//hoofd, 6 July 2011

Reviews

Kunst van de dag (art of the day) at galeries.nl, by Benno Tutein Nolthenius, 10.6.2011

In the Darkness of the Wardrobe, APengine, August 2010

Rörelser i olika takt, Hufvudstadsbladet, Helsinki, 22.3.2008