Barbara Seiler

EDUCATION

2008 MFA, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, US
2005 BA, The American University in Cairo, EG
2004 The Value of Art, International Art History Summer Course, Cambridge University, UK

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selected)

2020
Solo exhibition, Barbara Seiler, Zurich, CH
Solo exhibition, Segter van Doesburg, Amsterdam ,NL 
Duo exhibition with Jean-BapEste Maitre, Rita Urso, Milan, IT 

2019
Museo d’arte Moderna di Bologna (MAMbo)/ Villa Delle Rose, Whatever They Do May It All Turn Out Wrong with Jean- Baptist Maitre, Bologna, IT

2018
Stigter van Doesburg, Sports Memorabilia, Signed & Everything, Amsterdam, NL

2017
PuntWG, The Admirer and the Admired: two person exh. with Jean-BapEste Maitre, Cologne, DE

2016
The Poet Who Wanted to be Burried Underneath a Pinball Machine, Stigter van Doesburg, Amsterdam, NL
The Admirer and the Admired (with Jean-Baptiste Maitre), Tyson, Cologne, DE

2015
Dictated But Not Read, Supplement Gallery, London, UK
A Place in The Sun, Nile Sunset, Cairo, EG

To Be A Pinball, Spazio A, Pistoia, IT

2013
Double Bubble Gum, Bubbles Double, Barbara Seiler Galerie, Zurich, CH
Four Friends Fought Furiously for the Phone, Nederlands Bank, Amsterdam, NL

2012
Re-Play: Back in 10 Minutes, SpazioA, Pistoia, IT

2011
A Matter of Time, Barbara Seiler Galerie, Zurich, CH
Shmina Shmanish, Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, NL

2007
Howwa We Ana, However We Wanna, Play Space Gallery, San Francisco, USA

2006
The Motion of the Ocean, 5th Floor Gallery, Cairo, EG

2004
Momkin: Senior Student Exhibition, AUC, Cairo, EG

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)

2019
Perdu, Found in TranslaEon, Amsterdam, NL (performance)
SALA DE ARTE SANTANDER, NO HABRÁ NUNCA UNA PUERTA. ESTÁS ADENTRO. OBRAS DE LA COLEÇÃO
TEIXEIRA DE FREITAS, Madrid, ES

2018
Western Front, Mouthfeel, Vancouver, CA
SpazioA, 10 Years of Love, Pistoia, IT
Kunstverein Langenhagen, Der erweiterte Blick – The Extended View, Germany
Martin van Zomeren, EdiEons & MulEples, Amsterdam, NL

2017
Kunsthall Oslo, The Oslo Museum for Contemporary Art, Oslo, NO
MarEn van Zomeren, THEY TOOK HIS FRIES HE TOOK THEIR LIVES, Amsterdam, NL PINACOTECA
COMUNALE DI CITTÀ DI CASTELLO, VIOLENTI CONFINI, Cica di Castello, IT
Nieuw Amsterdams Peil, Where Do We Go From Here? Amsterdam, NL

2016
The Abraaj Group Art Prize, Syntax and Society, curated by Nav Hap, Dubai, AE
Travesia Curato, El Que Camina Al Lado, Madrid, ES
Performance Practices in the Gallery Context, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, NL
Where The Sun Hits The Water, Galerie Scharmann & Laskowski, Cologne, DE

2015
XII Baltic Triennial, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art, Krakow, PL
The Joycean Society, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL
Crossed Out Title, group exhibition with Dina Danish, Nickel van Duijvenboden, Marijn van Kreij and Wouter Venema, Galerie Rianne Groen, Rotterdam, NL
A Blind Man in His Garden, curated by Kris Dittel and Emma Panza, LUMA/Westbau, Löwenbräukunst, Zurich, CH
De Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs 2015, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, NL
Too Early Too Late. Middle East and Modernity, Pinacoteca Nazionale Bologna, IT

2014
The Centre for Dying on Stage #1, curated by Kate Strain, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, IE,
Father, Can’t You See I’m Burning?, de Appel Curatorial Programme and Stedleijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
Artists and Editions, Achenbach Foundation, Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco, US
Ways of Working According to an Office Desk, Upominki, Rotterdam, NL

2013
Not A Dead End, Biennale Yogyakarta, IN
Beirut Season Four: Writing with the other hand is imagining, Beirut, Cairo, EG
Some Misunderstandings, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK
With the Sound of Your Voice, Parallel Projects of Maracech Biennale, Marracech, MA
This is the House that Jack Built, Barbara Seiler Galerie, CH
Burgois Leftovers, De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, NL
To scrap a proportion, Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam, NL
Shapeshifting: My Friend, My Enemy, My Society, Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam, NL
Prospects & Concepts – Mondriaan Fonds toont talent, curated by Wim Waelput, LantarenVenster, Rotterdam, NL

2012
We’re All Here Because We’re Not All There, Tecoh Bruce Gallery, San Francisco, US
We Are Rolling, GallerieJ, Geneve, CH
Not in A Million Years, Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, NL
A Brand New Baby Carriage Standinge there on the Porch, Barbara Seiler Galerie, Zurich, CH
On Demand 2, tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, NL

2011
Run Comrade, The Old World is Behind You, Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo, NO
The Cat Is On The Table, group exhibition curated by Chris Fitzpatrick at Spazio A, Pistoia, IT
Two Versions of the Imaginary, curated by Maria Barnas, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Dina Danish, 3 videos, videohOle project space, San Francisco, US
2010 Shadow Shop, a project by Stephanie Syjuko, SFMOMA, San Francisco, US
Rijksakademie Open, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
Time After Time, Southern Exposure, san Francisco, USA Vision, Skybox, Amsterdam, NL
I Must Say At First It Was Difficult Work, Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo, NO
Drawing, CEIA, Belo Horizonte, BR
International Poetry Festival, Rotterdam, NL

2009
Rijksakademie Open Studios, Rijksakademie van beeldenden kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
Exercises in Seeing, Queen’s Nails Annex, San Francisco, US
Amsterdam Biennale, Cairo Pavillion representative, Mediamatic Bank, Amsterdam, NL
Fantasy for Allan Kaprow, CIC Cairo, Kunsthalle Bern, CH
2008 Vital Signs, Newcomb Art Gallery, New Orleans, US
Negotiations, Clara Street Projects, San Francisco, US
Institut for Social Research and the Discovery of Art God, Würrtembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, DE
ISR and the Discovery of Art God, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, US
Urban Jealousy, The 1st International Roaming Biennale of Tehran, Istanbul, Tehran CCA Graduate Thesis Exhibition, CCA, San Francisco, US
Curatorial Industries: Self-Storage, The Hardware Store Gallery, San Francisco, US
Barclay Simpson Award Exhibition, Oliver Art Center, Oakland, US
Manual CC, Uqbar, Berlin, DE
Reconciling America: Miraculous Encounters With The Mundane, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, US
T-!0, Eighth Annual Video Festival, 21 Grand, Oakland, CA, US
2007 Eviction Bloodbath Unicorn: It’s an Art Show, Oakland, CA, US
Faction, PLAySpace Gallery, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, US
CCA MFA Video Screening with Adrian Paci, New Langton, San Francisco, US

2006
4th International Painting Biennial Of The Islamic World, Tehran, IR
1st Arab Youth Biennale, Cairo, EG

2005
National Art Competition, Cairo, EG

2004
Mouled El Mahrousa, Goethe Institute, Cairo, EG
Re-investigating Vision, Townhouse Onsite, Cairo, EG
Decadenz, University of Cambridge, King’s College, England, UK
PICK 2, Townhouse: Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo, EG

RESIDENCIES

2019
Project Studio Rome (The American Academy in Rome/ KNIR), Mondriaan Fonds, Rome, Italy

2018
Rose Residency Programme at MAMbo, Bologna, Italy

2014
Biennale Yogyakarta Residency, Yogyakarta, IN

2013
A.I.R. Dubai, by Delfina Foundation, Tashkeel, Art Dubai, and Dubai Culture, AE2012
PiST///, BKVB, Istanbul, TR2011
ResO Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’Arte, Poirino, I2009-2010
Rijksakademie van beeldenden kunsten, Amsterdam, NL2008
Headlands Graduate Fellowship, Artist in Residency, Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin, US

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS

2016
Nominated for The Abraaj Group Art Prize

2015
Nominated for the Volkskrant Beeldende Kunstprijs

2013
Mondriaan Funds, NL
Winner, Curator’s Choice Celeste Prize, Rome, IT
Finalist, illy Art Rotterdam Prize with Barbara Seiler Gallery
Longlist Prixe de Rome

2012
Winner, illy Present Future award, Artissima 18 with Jeanine Hofland

2011
BKVB Startstipendium, NL

2010
Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (ICE), NL

2009
Institut Français des Pays-Bas, FR
Van den Berch van Heemstede Stichting, NL

2008
Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship, finalist, San Francisco, US
Barclay Simpson Award, recipient, San Francisco, US
SECA award, SFMOMA, finalist, San Francisco, US

2005
Fulbright Fellowship, finalist, Cairo, EG
National Art Competition Award, 1st prize recipient, Cairo, EG

2000
Short Story Award, recipient, The American University in Cairo, EG