Sophie Sabet
Currently working and living in Toronto
EDUCATION
2016 Master of Fine Arts, Documentary Media, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON
2014 Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Art History, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 the break in our shape, Modern Fuel, Kingston, ON
2020 The Perfect Day, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, ON
2019 I Almost Didn’t Feel You Leave, Bradley Museum, Mississauga, ON
2019 Though I am Silent, I Shake, Xpace External Gallery, Toronto, ON
2017 Since We Last Spoke, Flux Gallery, 2017, Winnipeg, MB
2016 Since We Last Spoke, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto, ON
GROUP AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022 CAL: Cooperativa de Agentes Líquidos, Guadalajara, JAL, Mexico
2021 I Almost Didn’t Feel You Leave, Long Winter, Toronto, ON
2018 Not The Camera, But The Filing Cabinet: Performative Body Archives In Contemporary Art, Gallery 1C03, Winnipeg, MB
2018 The Stories That Tell Stories, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, ON
2018 PROOF 25, Gallery 44, Toronto ON
2018 VAM 40th Juried Show, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, ON
SCREENINGS
2022 Jin Jyyan Azadi: Kurdish and Iranian Women’s Cinema, Vox Populi, Philadelphia PA
2020 SWANA Film Festival, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB
2018 Photophobia: Contemporary Moving Image Festival, Hamilton Artists Inc, Hamilton, ON
PRESENTATIONS AND ARTIST TALKS
2020 Unravelling and Composing the Personal in Video, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB
2019 Panel Discussion, Oboro Gallery, Montreal, QC
2019 Almost Didn’t Feel You Leave, artist talk, Bradley Museum, Mississauga, ON
2016 In Conversation with Nahed Mansour, artist talk, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto, ON
2016 States of Mind, panel discussion, moderated by Sara Knelman, DocNow Festival, Toronto, ON
RESIDENCIES
2022 Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
2020 RBC Artist Incubator Program, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, ON
2019 Oboro Gallery, Montreal, QC
2018 Themed Commission: The Stories That Tell Stories, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, ON
2018 Vermont Studio Centre, Johnson, VT
2017 Bidoun, BOFFO Fire Island Art Camp, Sayville, NY
2017 Visual + Digital Arts BAiR Emerging, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, AB
AWARDS
2019 The Gattuso Prize
2018 1st place VAM 40th Juried Show
2014-2016 Ryerson Graduate Fellowship
2014 Queen’s University Faculty of Art and Science Dean’s Honour List
PUBLICATIONS
2019 Bartholomew, Sophia. The Thickness of That Fabric, Public Parking
2019 Hibah, Mian. Though I am Silent I Shake, Xpace External Space
2017 Bhangu, Noor. A Response to Sophie Sabet’s exhibition, Since We Last Spoke, Flux Gallery
2017 Hajjar, Christina, A Response to Sophie Sabet’s exhibition, Since We Last Spoke, Flux Gallery