Metaphysics, geology, and memory are recurrent themes in the work of Jamilah Sabur. In her practice, the artist employs a distinct poetics, reframing territory and language. She explores the temporary nature of existence and our fleeting presence in it, a thread that connects us all. A new planetary literacy emerges in her work, where alternate geographies become possible as submerged histories are revealed.
Recent and upcoming projects include The Harvesters, Bass Museum, Miami, Florida (USA), The mountain sings underwater, Momenta Biennale, PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal (Canada), Sinking Feeling, Or Gallery, Vancouver (Canada), Here and Now: Recent Acquisitions, University of Maryland Art Gallery, Maryland (USA), and Prospect 5, New Orleans: Yesterday we said tomorrow, New Orleans, Louisiana (USA).
For her most recent group exhibition with the gallery please click here.
Recent and upcoming projects include The Harvesters, Bass Museum, Miami, Florida (USA), The mountain sings underwater, Momenta Biennale, PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal (Canada), Sinking Feeling, Or Gallery, Vancouver (Canada), Here and Now: Recent Acquisitions, University of Maryland Art Gallery, Maryland (USA), and Prospect 5, New Orleans: Yesterday we said tomorrow, New Orleans, Louisiana (USA).
For her most recent group exhibition with the gallery please click here.
Jamilah Sabur, Mnemonic alphabet (A/Alud), 2019, Neon, transformer, print on cotton rag, Honduran mahogany, enamel, 112 x 137 x 8 cm
Jamilah Sabur, After mining the soil is less capable of retaining water, 2022, C-Type print on aluminium, 44.5 x 88.5 cm (framed), and acrylic-casein on linen 120 x 120 cm
Jamilah Sabur, Obra, 2019 digital video, color, sound, 03'17'', Installation view, Faena Festival 2019. Photo by Oriol Tarridas
Jamilah Sabur, in an ocean of air, 2022, Architectural intervention, hand glazed ceramic tile and neon, Installation at the Port of Miami, USA, Courtesy of the Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places Trust
Jamilah Sabur, rivers of air, 2022, Neon, 40 x 6 x 4 cm, Installation view from solo exhibition 'The Harvesters’ at the Bass Miami, USA. Photo credit: Zaire Aranguren
Jamilah Sabur, Tidal locking, 2019, Color, sound, 5 min
Jamilah Sabur, Parabolic reflection diagram, 2022, Neon, transformer, 40 x 6 x 4 cm
Jamilah Sabur, Un chemin escarpé, 2018, 5-channel video, 11'38''. Installation view from the Hammer Museum. Photo by Jeff McLane
Jamilah Sabur, This is where my father was born, 2020 Oil, graphite, on linen 112 x 112 cm
Jamilah Sabur, I will wet you (pl.) with the new water, 2018, Neon and transformers, 289.5 x 20 cm
Jamilah Sabur, an antipode, a stairway, a spectral standard from Arabic At-Tinnin, 2023, Aluminium tray framed inkjet print, neon, Overall dimensions variable
Solo Exhibitions
2023 The Harvesters, Bass Museum, South Beach, Miami, Florida, USA 2022 The Harvesters, Bass Museum, South Beach, Miami, Florida, USA In an Ocean of Air, permanent installation, Port of Miami, Florida, USA Eltanin, Broadway, New York, USA 2021 DADA Holdings, Nina Johnson, Miami, Florida, USA The mountain sings underwater, Momenta Biennale, PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada 2020 Observations: Selected Works by Jamilah Sabur, University of Maryland Art Gallery, Maryland, USA 2019 Memory Palace, Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, St. Augustine, Florida, USA Stream Gradient, Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA Un chemin escarpé / A steep path, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA 2018 Ibine Ela Acu/Water Sun Moon, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, Florida, USA The Rhetoric of the Living, Emerson Dorsch, Miami, Florida, USA 2017 If defined, then undefine, Dimensions Variable, Miami, Florida, USA Group Exhibitions 2023 Visions, Museum Krona, Uden, The Netherlands This Land, The Contemporary Austin, Austin, Texas, USA Transatlantic Connections: Caribbean Narratives in Contemporary Art, presented by 1-54, Christie's, London, UK Sinking Feeling, Or Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia Here and Now: Recent Acquisitions, University of Maryland Art Gallery, Maryland, USA 2022 Phraseology, The Bass Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA Boil, Toil, Trouble, Art in Common, curated by Zoe Lukov, Miami, Florida, USA 2021 Prospect 5, New Orleans: Yesterday we said tomorrow, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Worldmaking Tentacles, Momenta Biennale, Fonderie Darling, Montréal, Québec, Canada Here there And Everywhere, Foley Gallery, New York, USA Des Tentacules Façonnant Le Monde, Fonderie Darling, Montreal, Canada 2020 Mending the Sky, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans House to House: Women, Politics, and Place, Frost Art Museum, Miami The Willfulness of Objects, curated by Silvia Karman Cubiñá and Leilani Lynch, The Bass, Miami, Florida, USA Time Share, Performa, New York, USA Open Justice, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 2019 The Last Supper, Faena Art, Miami Beach, Florida, USA The Other Side of Now, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, Florida, USA Parallels and Peripheries, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, Michigan, USA 2018 Deconstruction, Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida, USA Augmented sunrise beneath the skin, Gr_und, Berlin, Germany Études conviviales, SBC galerie d’art Contemporain, Montréal, Canada Between a view and a milestone, ArtCenter South Florida, USA SCORCHED EARTH, Current Projects, Miami, Florida, USA The World’s Game: Fútbol and Contemporary Art, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida, USA 2017 Sunrise, Sunset, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA baby boy, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland MemoryLab, History Museum, Miami, Florida, USA Screenings 2018 The Willfulness of Objects, The Bass Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA (until 2022) Beneath the rivers, there are no borders, Future of Demonstration, Vienna, Austria A derivation of time, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, Florida, USA Beneath the rivers, there are no borders, Little Haiti Cultural Center, Miami, Florida, USA 2017 Black Radical Imagination in partnership with LUX Scotland, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland Black Radical Imagination in partnership with LUX Scotland, ICA London, London, UK Latinoamericano Cine Del Nuevo International Festival in Havana, Cuba EXiS Festival, Busan Corner Theatre, Busan, Korea Black Radical Imagination, The Art Institute of Chicago, USA Crater-Lab, Barcelona, Spain (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico, A Coruña,Galicia, Spain Los Angeles Film Forum, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, Los Angeles, USA San Francisco Cinematheque/Crossroads Film Festival, San Francisco, California, USA |