Biography

Sarah Beddington is a British artist based in New York whose work investigates the intersection between the social, the personal and the political to be found in everyday occurrences. Working in a variety of media, she records unique social and aesthetic circumstances that can manifest themselves in unanticipated ways. Under her detached gaze, cultural and visual fragments coalesce into poetic tableaux in which the glimpsed moment becomes abstracted and surreal. Beddington challenges the viewer to slow down in order to observe these meticulously composed parallel moments which, existing within a non-linear, non-narrative time, often have a dream-like quality. Solo exhibitions include Crossing, DAC, New York (2008); Places of Laughter and of Crying, Bloomberg SPACE, London (2008); Panoptiscope, Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL, London (2006); Parallel Lines and Other Stories, Artlab, Berlin (2005). Group exhibitions include Eastern Standards: Western Artists in China, MASS MoCA, continues until March 2009; Vanishing Point, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; About Time, Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Denmark; Panoramica, The Rufino Tamayo Museum, Mexico City. Her work is represented in a number of public and private collections including Arts Council England.