Sara Anstis

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020
TBD, Nevven gallery, Gothenburg (Sweden)

2019
Slip spill, 650mAh, Hove (United-Kingdom)

2015
Untitled and anonymous, Galleri Monitor, Gothenburg (Sweden)
GOLDEN//EAGER, Galleri Rotor2, Gothenburg (Sweden)2014
clean + quiet, Makeriet, Malmö (Sweden)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019
Art Toronto with Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Toronto (Canada)
Big painting, Patrick Parrish Gallery, New York (USA)
The self, the work, the world, Fabian Lang Gallery, Zurich (Swiss)
Animal Idealism, HARPY gallery, Rutherford (USA)
Den Tänkande Handen (The Thinking Hand), the Royal Palace – Gustav III’s Museum of Antiquities, Stockholm (Sweden)
Gestures of Comfort, Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal (Canada)
Drawing Marathon exhibition, RISD (Rhode Island School of Design), Providence (USA)
Sara Anstis and Christopher Davison, HARPY gallery, Rutherford (USA)
Summer Will Have Its Flies, Subsidiary Projects, London (United-Kingdom)

2018
The Drawing Year 2017–18 End of Year Exhibition, Royal Drawing School, London (United-Kingdom) Works on Paper, BEERS gallery, London (United-Kingdom)
I Will Survive, Galleri CC and Alta Art Space, Malmö (Sweden)
Best of the Drawing Year, Christie’s London (United-Kingdom)

2017
Drill Street, Digitaliseum, Malmö (Sweden)

2016
Grant Recipients 2016 – Stiftelsen Anna-Lisa Thomson Till Minne, Uppsala Art Museum (Sweden)
A place forgotten by many, Gothenburg Konsthall (Sweden)
Enact: Valand Academy Fine Art and Photography Thesis Exhibition, Gothenburg Konsthall (Sweden) Konstakademien grant recipients’ exhibition, Galleri Väst, Ateljén och Galleri Öst, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm (Sweden)

2015
Pop-Up Show, Galleri Rotor2, Gothenburg (Sweden)
CAN YOU DIG IT?, Vasagatan 33, Gothenburg (Sweden)
Compost, Galleri Rotor2, Gothenburg (Sweden)
Ways of Drawing, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Oslo (Norway)

2013
11th Annual Graduating Students Exhibition, VAV Gallery, Montreal (Canada) Ill Palette, Eastern Bloc, Montreal (Canada)

RESIDENCIES

Upcoming
Palazzo Monti x The Great Women Artists, Brescia, Italy Palazzo Monti x The Great Women Artists, Brescia, Italy, selected by Katy Hessel (@thegreatwomenartists)

2019
El Segundo Museum of Art (ESMoA), USA
Residency awarded by the Royal Drawing School, London residency jury: Antje Southern, Eileen Hogan, Katrin Henkel, Cherry Pickles, Per Rumberg, Tom Hammick
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), USA
Residency awarded by the Royal Drawing School, London
Studio residency for The Drawing Marathon winter course

2016
Kunstnarhuset Messen, Ålvik, Norway

GRANTS & AWARDS

2019
Jerwood Arts Bursary
Shortlisted for Den Tänkande Handen (The Thinking Hand) drawing grant, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the Royal Court, Sweden

2018
Fredrika Bremer Förbundet stipend

2016
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant Anna-Lisa Thomson stipendium Kerstin Lind-Pafumis stipendium Bertha Neuberghs stipendium, Valand Academy Holck, Fredriksson/Hilleström stipendium, Konstakademien

2014
Otto och Charlotte Mannheimers fond grant, Gothenburg

2013
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant Lise-Hélène Larin Drawing Prize, Concordia University

2012
British Columbia Arts Council Senior Award Cecil Buller – John J.A. Murphy Scholarship in Drawing, Concordia University Bank of Montreal Bursary, Concordia University

2011
Fine Arts Student Association Special Projects Grant, Concordia University Morley and Rita Cohen Foundation Bursary, Concordia University

2010
British Columbia Arts Council Junior Award Faculty of Fine Arts Development Fund Bursary, Concordia University Fine Arts Student Association Special Projects Grant, Concordia University

2009
British Columbia Arts Council Junior Award Salt Spring Island Arts Council Scholarship

TEACHING & TALKS

2015
Exhibition/Non exhibition, presentation with Akademin Valand students at the first Research Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, Sala del Camino, Venice, Italy
Ways of Drawing, Nordic/Baltic art academies drawing workshop and exhibition, Oslo National Academy of the Arts

2014
Artist talk, Kontxt, Malmö
Compost, collectively curated exhibition, Rotor2, Gothenburg

2013
Life model drawing class facilitator for Drawing and Painting students, Concordia University

PUBLICATION PROJECTS

2018
Survival Handbook, a wilderness survival guide with artists’ writings by Anna Bak, Alexis Rodríguez Cancino, Karin Granstrand
Rhiannon Inman-Simpson, Nina Jensen, Sara Anstis and Sheri Nault; introduction by Sarah Pickston
(editor; edition of 200 published in November 2018)