BIO
Sara Sallam is an Egyptian multidisciplinary artist, designer, and visual researcher based in the Netherlands. She works across media and platforms, using photography, video, creative writing, and archive material, and making books and short films. Themes of absence and loss run throughout her multilayered projects in which she often explores ways of visualising things we cannot see and people we cannot meet. Sara has exhibited internationally and was awarded grants from Magnum Foundation and Mophradat. Her work was shortlisted in Lang-Taylor Prize, Kassel Photobook Award, The Friends of the Arab World Institute Award, Joop Swart Masterclass, and Magnum Foundation Fund. In 2020, Sara began self-publishing her work in the form of hand-bound photobooks.
I’m represented by Tintera Gallery
I’m a member in WomenPhotograph
I’m on Instagram and Linkedin
AWARDS | NOMINATIONS
2019 Shortlist, Stedelijk Museum’s Municipal Art Acquisitions 2020
2019 Shortlist, Magnum Foundation Fund
2018 Nominated, Joop Swart Masterclass
2017 Finalist, Lang-Taylor Prize
2017 Special Mention, The Friends of the Arab World Institute Award
2017 Nominated, Joop Swart Masterclass
2016 Nominated, Plat(t)form Portfolio Review, Fotomuseum Winterthur
2016 Shortlist, Dummy Award Kassel
2016 Shortlist, PhotoIndependent Art Fair
EXHIBITIONS
2020 Group Exhibition Eternal Light II, curated by Art D’Egypte, at The Factory, Cairo
2020 Group Exhibition Eternal Light II, curated by Art D’Egypte, at The Factory, Cairo
2020 Photo London Digital
2020 Online Print Sale For The Love of Beirut
2020 Online Print Sale The Female Gaze
2020 Online Print Sale Diversify Photo Covid-19 Relief Print Sale
2019 Group Exhibition The Autumn Exhibition, curated by Tintera Photographic Art Consultancy, at Tintera Gallery, Cairo
2019 Group Exhibition She Tells, curated by Soma Art Gallery, at B’sarya Gallery, Alexandria
2018 Group Exhibition She Tells, curated by Soma Art Gallery, during Cairo Photo Week, Cairo
2018 Group Exhibition Artchaeology: Intersection between Art and Archaeology, curated by International Association of Photography and Theory, at The Nicosia Municipal Art Centre, Nicosia
2018 Solo Exhibition The Fourth Pyramid Belongs to Her, at Darb 1718 Gallery, Cairo
2017 Group Exhibition Humaness, curated by Bertan Selim, at Sexyland, Amsterdam
2017 Photobook presented at Format Festival, Derby
2016 Photobook presented at Offprint London, at Tate Modern, London
2016 Photobook presented at PhotoIndependent Art Fair, Los Angeles
2016 PostGraduate Show In The Forest of Things, University of
the Arts London, London
2014 Group Exhibition Layer of Green, at Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo
2013 Group Exhibition Spuren 2.0 Symposium, at E-Werk, Freiburg
2013 Group Film Screening Cross Culture Video, at Goethe Institute Cairo and Artellewa Gallery, Cairo
EDUCATION
2019 M.A. in Film and Photographic Studies (Cum Laude), at Leiden University, NL
SELF-PUBLISHED MONOGRAPHS
2020 A Tourist Handbook: Egypt Outside of Egypt, Vol. 1: Paris
GRANTS | SCHOLARSHIPS
2017 Mophradat Grant for Artists
2019 M.A. in Film and Photographic Studies (Cum Laude), at Leiden University, NL
2015 M.A. in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (Distinction), at London College of Communication, UAL, UK
2013 B.A. in Media Design (High Honours), at The German University in Cairo, EG
SELF-PUBLISHED MONOGRAPHS
2020 A Tourist Handbook: Egypt Outside of Egypt, Vol. 1: Paris
2020 If I Can Be Heard In The Place Where You Are
2020 At Last, I Hold Your Gaze
GRANTS | SCHOLARSHIPS
