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2012:

An Orchestrated Vision - The Theater of Contemporary Art Photography, St Louis Art Museum, USA.
February 19th - May 13th 2012 The Theater of Contemporary Photography is a compelling survey of contemporary photographers, many presented in St. Louis for the first time. Seen together, the works reveal the remarkable potential of the photographic medium in contemporary artistic practice. On view will be over 40 works from an international group of artists which includes Thomas Struth, Carrie Mae Weems, and Gregory Crewdson. These photographers have focused on the elements of scene setting and directing to meticulously construct environments that are mesmerizing in their large scale, absorbing in their uncanny beauty, and haunting in their elusive meaning. They inventively exploit photography's unique capacity to operate in the boundaries between fact and fiction. Each image is the product of the painstaking execution of the ambitious vision of the artist.

Curated by Eric Lutz, associate curator of prints, drawings and photographs, with Ann-Maree Walker, research assistant, An Orchestrated Vision: The Theater of Contemporary Photography will be on view in the Main Exhibition Galleries.

www.slam.org

Hijacked III - Contemporary Photography from Australia and the United Kingdom, 3rd March - 6th May 2012

Major survey exhibition and publication featuring the best photographic talents from or within Australia and the United Kingdom.
Known for halting the status quo, arresting the scene and exploding a new perspective on the practices of contemporary photography, this third edition of the biennale Hijacked series explores the world through the eyes and works of 32 international photographers from or within the United Kingdom and Australia. Also featuring a series of specially commissioned films about participating photographers.
Take a trip into the fantastic and foreboding worlds of artists from opposite sides of the globe. From oblique takes on portraiture and collage to snapshots of society at its best and worst, these far reaching photographic practices question what it means to look, catch or construct images for the 21st century. A fleeting glimpse into the life and times of both countries and beyond, Hijacked 3 disrupts the way you think about photography.
The exhibition will show simultaneously in QUAD with a partner version at PICA in Perth Australia. Events will include live link ups for workshops, artists talks.
Curated by Louise Clements, Mark McPherson & Leigh Robb.
Featuring:
AUS - Tony Albert | Warwick Baker | Bindi Cole | Christopher Day | Tarryn Gill & Pilar Mata Dupont | Toni Greaves | Petrina Hicks | Alin Huma | Katrin Koenning | David Manley | Jesse Marlow |Tracey Moffatt |Justin Spiers | Michelle Tran | Christian Thompson | Michael Ziebarth
UK - Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin | Natasha Caruana | Maciej Dakowicz | Melinda Gibson | Leonie Hampton | Rasha Kahil | Seba Kurtis | Trish Morrissey | Laura Pannack | Sarah Pickering | Zhao Renhui | Simon Roberts | Helen Sear | Luke Stephenson | Wassink & Lundgren | Tereza Zelenkova
Supported by:
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.

2011:

Solo Exhibition: Art & Antiquities April 30 - June 11 2011, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels

Art Brussels 28 April - 1st May 2011, Meessen De Clercq, stand 3c-18

www.meessendeclercq.be

2010:

Locate Jerwood Visual Art commission Sarah Pickering, Aura Satz and Mel Brimfield curated by Sarah Williams

Sarah Pickering's photographs allow the viewer to experience institutional representations of the real world. For Locate Pickering has created a new body of photographs in response to a museum exhibition on Fakes and Forgeries organised by the Art and Antiquities Unit of the Metropolitan Police. Working with the fakes and forgeries archive at Scotland Yard she has researched one of the most notorious art forgers in history, Shaun Greenhalgh. The exhibition installation takes the form of a museum space consisting of a number of different photographic approaches including: a staged image of one of Greenhalgh's forgeries in a replica of his living room, photographs of a representation Greenhalgh shed at the V&A exhibition and scanned images taken by Greenhalgh himself which he used as a tool to sell his forgeries on to galleries and museums worldwide. The installation also comprises of publications that represent a Gauguin faun, a forgery created by Greenhalgh, with texts and interpretations written by experts interpreting the work as if it were genuine. Props constructed by the BBC, that appeared in a documentary dramatization of the Greenhalgh story will be shown alongside a salt print of the Armana Princess on loan from the V&A for the duration of the exhibition.

August 11th – September 12th 2010
www.jerwoodvisualarts.org

Revealing Evidence Sarah Pickering and Shelley Goldsmith, PM Gallery and House, Ealing, London September 15th – October 23rd 2010
www.ealing.gov.uk/

Locus+ Commission Spring 2011
www.locusplus.org.uk

Incident Control - Sarah Pickering Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago
April 9th - June 20th 2010

Monograph - Sarah Pickering: Explosions, Fires, and Public Order
Aperture (15 Mar 2010) ISBN-10: 1597111236
www.aperture.org/

2009

Group Exhibition - MANIPULATING REALITY. How Images Redefine the World
(25 September 2009 – 17 January 2010)
Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence

A project by CCCS. Scientific Committee:
Martino Marangoni, Franziska Nori, Brett Rogers, Luminita Sabau

Thursday September 24th 2009 at 7 pm Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina
Palazzo Strozzi, Piazza Strozzi, Firenze

Artists
Olivo Barbieri, Sonja Braas, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Gregory Crewdson, Thomas Demand, Elena Dorfman, Christiane Feser, Andreas Gefeller, Andreas Gursky, Beate Gütschow, Osang Gwon, Tatjana Hallbaum, Ilkka Halso, Robin Hewlett & Ben Kinsley, Rosemary Laing, Aernout Mik, Saskia Olde Wolbers, Sarah Pickering, Moira Ricci, Cindy Sherman, Cody Trepte, Paolo Ventura, Melanie WioraThe CCCS' new exhibition explores the theme of the manipulation and reconstruction of reality through photographic images and videos, in the work of 23 international contemporary artists.Photography and video art have always been based on the conflict between recording reality and, at the same time, becoming themselves a falsification of that reality, a viewpoint that builds a particular image of the world. Today, with the spreading popularity of easy-to-use digital technology, that ambiguity has if anything increased, pushing the conflict between appearance and reality to its outer edges.The material on display in this exhibition, entitled Manipulating Reality, is the work of photographers and video-artists who have developed the potential of these new techniques or who reject post-production procedures, sharing the common aim of playing both with the medium's possibilities and with the viewer's expectations, thus creating totally original visions of the world.

Exhibition hours
Tuesday – Sunday 10 am – 8 pm / free Thursday 6 pm – 11 pm / Monday closedA full colour catalogue has been produced to accompany the exhibtion.
www.strozzina.org/manipulatingreality/e_index.php
www.strozzina.org
www.palazzostrozzi.org
Tel. +39 055 2645155

Supported by: Regione Toscana, Provincia di Firenze, Comune di Firenze, Camera di Commercio Industria Artigianato e Agricoltura di Firenze, Associazione Partners Palazzo Strozzi and Moleskine

Group Show - Manmade: Notions of Landscape from the Lannan Collection New Mexico Museum of Art (Oct 9, 2009 - Jan 3, 2010)

Manmade: Notions of Landscape from the Lannan Collection features the work of nine artists whose work is an exploration of man and the landscape—not landscape in its most literal sense, but landscape as a construction of meanings and relationships that are always morphing, growing, decaying, and exploding. These various facets of landscape include the natural, the cultural, the social, and the political.The Lannan Foundation works related to landscape are never of the sort that is a celebration purely of a sublime or pristine nature; rather they are of the terrain inscribed with all manner of human interaction, including manmade creations meant to guide our way through the oceans, earthworks, human-aided natural disaster, and the theatre of war.The artists in the exhibition are Debbie Fleming Caffery, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Olafur Eliasson, Roni Horn, An-My Lê, Sarah Pickering, Victoria Sambunaris, Robert Smithson, and James Turrell.For more information on the Lannan Foundation and their Visual Arts Program, visit http://www.lannan.org/lf/programs/art/All works Collection Lannan Foundation.

Publication - Hotshoe International Magazine - Sarah Pickering - Fire Scenes Interview with Anthony Luvera. April - May 2009 pp 20-29

Talk - Martin Barnes in conversation with Sarah Pickering & Jem Southam
Friday Late - Victoria and Albert Museum
7pm Hochauser Auditorium
Friday 29th May

Solo Exhibition - Explosion
March 6, 2009 - April 12, 2009
Meessen De Clercq, Brussels
http://www.meessendeclercq.be/

The UK artist Sarah Pickering captured, in her series Explosion, the detonation of bombs as used by the army for training purposes. Her photographs, awarded with several international prizes and soon on show in an exhibition of the Museum of Contemporary Photography of Chicago, underline the terrifying beauty of fire and the evocative force of this physical phenomenon.

Holding Fire
May 8, 2009 – June 20th, 2009
Ffotogallery
Turner House
Plymouth Road
Penarth
CF64 3DM029 2070 8870
http://www.ffotogallery.org/index.php

An exhibition of work from the Explosion and the Incident series.

Group Show - Theatres of the Real
June 18, 2009 – Sept 13, 2009
Foto Museum
Waalse Kaai 47
B-2000 Antwerp
Belgium
tel.: +32 3 242 93 00
http://www.fotomuseum.be/en/The show on ‘British contemporary photography today’ will be installed on the main floor of the Fotomuseum Antwerp. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue published by the FotoMuseum Antwerp edited by David Green, with texts by show curators David Green and Joanna Lowry, and additional texts by David Chandler and Jan Baetens, The catalogue will include extensive sequences of the works in the exhibition ‘Theatres of the Real’.

Photography Collection Gallery
April 30, 2009 – April 2010
V&A museum,
Cromwell Road
London SW7 2RL
+44 (0)20 7942 2000
http://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/index.html

White Goods from the Incident series will be featured alongside other new acquisitions and works from the museum collection.

Publication - Sarah Pickering - Photographs
Spring 2010 A monograph with Aperture featuring work from the series Explosion, Fire Scene, Incident and Public Order, and other previously unseen work. More details to follow.

Publication & Commission - Imaging the City – Cardiff.
Photographic Book Project with Paul Shambroom, Dan Holdsworth and Martin Parr commissioned by SAFLE & St Davids 2. Publication scheduled for autumn 2009. More details to follow.