Sara Barker
Born in Manchester, UK, 1980
Lives & works in Glasgow
Education
1999-2003 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Painting, Glasgow School of Art
1998-1999 History of Art, University of Glasgow
Current / Forthcoming Exhibitions
2020
Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds (S)
SMoCA LAB: Sara Barker, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona (S)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017
The faces of older images, Mary Mary, Glasgow
a weak spot in the earth, The Approach, London
2016
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
CHANGE-THE-SETTING, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
2015
Outdoor work commission, CASS Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood, West Sussex
Permanent sculptural commission, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh
2014
for myself & strangers, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
I become almost a shadow, carlier gebauer, Berlin
2013
The subtle knife (with Ryder Architecture), BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
THE THINGS THAT ARE SOLID, ABSORBED AND STILL, Mary Mary, Glasgow
Patterns, outdoor work commission, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh
2012
Mary Mary at 45 Alexandra Park Street, Glasgow
Woman at a window, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
2010
Images, Mary Mary, Glasgow
2009
FOUR, Dublin
2008
Present Future, Artissima Art Fair, Turin
hanging a way of dressing, Glasgow Project Rooms, Glasgow
2007
Mary Mary, Glasgow
2006
New Work Scotland, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018
DRAF x MOSTYN: She sees the shadows, Mostyn, Llandudno
Virginia Woolf: an exhibition inspired by her writings, Pallant House, Chichester; The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
NOW, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Condo New York, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York
Virginia Woolf: an exhibition inspired by her writings, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall
Surface Work, Victoria Miro, London
L’immagine e il suo doppio, Eduardo Secci Contemporary, Firenze
2017
Women to Watch, Phillips, London
Imagination and its Contents, Frestonian Gallery, London
New Sculpture, The Whitworth, University of Manchester, Manchester
Transparency, The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
2016
Geographies of Dust and Air, Mary Mary, Glasgow
2015
Signal Failure, Pace, London
2013
The End of the 20th Century: The Best Is Yet to Come, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum fur Gegenwart, Berlin
Sara Barker / Barbara Kasten, Mary Mary at 10 Northington Street, London
The Gravity of Things, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Lisbon
Laura Aldridge / Sara Barker / Sue Tompkins, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago
New Order: British Art Today, Saatchi Gallery, London
Drawing : Sculpture, The Drawing Room, London
The Geometry of Things – Markus Amm / Sara Barker / Robin Watkins, GAK, Bremen
Least common denominator, M1 Arthur Boskamp-Stiffung, Hohenlockstedt
2012
A House of Leaves. Second Movement, David Roberts Art Foundation, London
Tracing the Century: Drawing from Tate Collection, Tate Liverpool
Pink Caviar: Recent Acquisitions, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
Drawing : Sculpture, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds
Studio 58: Women Artists in Glasgow Since WWII, Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow School of Art
2011
Frauenzimmer – Sara Barker / Karla Black / Carol Bove / Thea Djordjadze / Isa Genzken / Kitty Kraus / Tatiana Trouvé, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Des années de poudre recouvrant des années de jaune, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris
Look with all your eyes, look, Frith Street Gallery, London
Sara Barker / Lars Tygesen, Christian Anderson, Copenhagen
Somiglianze non sensibili, Galerie Opdahl, Berlin
2010
Maria Loboda / Chiara Camoni / Sara Barker / Marie Lund / Gyan Panchard, Galerie Opdahl, Norway
Sara Barker / Jessica Rankin, carlier gebauer, Berlin
2009
The morning after the big fire – Sara Barker / Michael Samuels, Ville du Parc Contemporary Art Center, Annemasse, France
Taj Mahal Travellers, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm
La Importancia del Pez Cebra, Pillar Parra & Romero, Madrid
Zero Budget Biennial, Paris
The Actuality of the Idea, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
2008
Base: Object, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Open Eye Club, Tramway, Glasgow
Claire Barclay / Sara Barker / Neil Clements / Sally Osborn / Jonathan Owen / Albrecht Schafer, Doggerfisher, Edinburgh
2007
Studio Voltaire, London
2006
Peaton House, Cove Park, Argyll & Bute
Magazine 2006, Edinburgh Sculpture workshop
Mantua Art Festival, Roscommon, Ireland
Transmission Members show, Glasgow
2005
Re-Escape, Hamburg, Germany Untitled, Transmission, Glasgow
2004
Best in Show, Members show, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
Shadow Lives, Emerged Gallery, Glasgow (with Tim Facey)
Sara Barker / Lotte Gertz, Mary Mary Project Space, Glasgow