2021
Launch of Which Way Now? Publication and toolkit, Serpentine Galleries

2020
Botteghe: Digital Manufacturing Project, Gorizia: Lead Artist

2019
Serpentine Galleries, London, Changing Play residency at the Portman Centre
TURF Projects, Don’t Give Up the Day Job
ITV Creates, ITV ident in collaboration with Dave Bennett

2018
Serpentine Galleries, London, Changing Play residency at the Portman Centre
CREATE London, London, Artist-in-residence in the UK’s 2nd largest Industrial Park
Art Rotterdam, Division of Labour
Research trip to Japan supported by Daiwa Foundation
Castletown House & Dublin Castle, On a Pedestal: Celebrating the contemporary portrait bust

2017
Artsadmin, Standard,ledger and transom
Turner Contemporary, Art Inspiring Change - ArtGate
Division of Labour, Art Night 2017, Print Department
TENDERFOOT, web project, Beak Popping
Art Brussels, Brussels, Division of Labour

2016
APT Gallery, London - Recipe Swap Symposium
Division of Labour, London - Solo exhibition - Monument to a fishmonger / On the slab
Artsadmin Artists’ Bursary recipient
Studies on a Road, Edgware Road Project, Serpentine Galleries
Art Inspiring Change, Turner Contemporary
Video screening at Temple Contemporary, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia

2015
Video Social Club, Plymouth Social Club, Weekenders
Whitechapel Gallery, Duchamp & Sons - Working with other people
Whitechapel Gallery - The London Open 2015
St Luke’s Community Centre, London - The Bunhill Walking Map
Syson Project Space, Nottingham - CYOPRESERVATION: We need flowers tomorrow?
Art Brussels, Brussels - Division of Labour
Serpentine Galleries - Artist Talk: Sam Curtis
UCA Canterbury -Symposium: Work And Art: How Artists Make A Living
Sheffield Hallam University -Transmission Lecture
Serpentine Galleries, The Edgware Road Project - Artist-in-residence

2014
4th edition of Ateliers de Rennes Biennale - PLAY TIME
Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem - Exploit!
Kreuzberg Pavillion, Berlin - I'm Looking for a job in this city
Art Brussels, Brussels - Division of Labour – Selected for Cinema Programme
Division of Labour, Worcester City Gallery - Homage to January
R-Urban, Colombes, FR - Trade Show
Birmingham Bullring - Birmingham Bullring Fishmongers Championship 2014
Eastside Projects, Birmingham - Trade Show

2013
Banner Repeater, London - Publication Launch 'It all started when...'
BEURSSCHOUWBURG, Brussels - Work Hard / Play Hard
Sluice Art Fair, London - Division of Labour and Centre for Innovative and Radical Fishmongery
The Showroom, London – re-projecting (london), collaboration with Ricardo Basbaum
News of the World, London, Intensive Care curated by The Centre of Attention
Moving Image Art Fair, New York
Art Rotterdam, Projections
Centre For Possible Studies, London – Re-Housed, collaboration with Seymour Art Collective
QUAD, Derby - Exposure 13, Format International Photography Festival

2012
Division of Labour, Marketplace -with Ned James, Craig Barnes Guy Ben-Ner, Helmut Smits, Andrew Sunderland Jacob Dahlgren and Miles Thurlow
The Manchester Contemporary - IKEA and Opportunity #1,2
Division Of Labour, Great Malvern – Did anyone ever tell you that you’re beautiful when you’re following orders?
TATE Modern, London – Developing Creative practice and sharing information networks, Seymour Arts

2011
TATE Britain, London – Make Art Dynamic, Seymour Art Collective
CAZ Project Space, Penzance – WEEKENDER, Artist-in-residence
Showroom, London – Seymour Art Collective in residence
Lo and Behold Gallery, London – work/work
Pi: Artworks, Istanbul – Trade Routes
Trajector Art Fair, Brussels – Pitt Studio

2010
Art Connexion, Lille – Saison Video 2010
Space Station Sixty-Five, London – Be Careful What you Wish For
Subway Gallery, London – Seymour Art Collective
BLANK Gallery, Brighton – Exhibition Cancelled
The Plaza Principle, Leeds – COPY
Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London – Seymour Art Collective

2009
Mains d’Œuvres, Paris – For Your Eyes Only
176 Gallery, London – Contested Ground
HFBK Gallery, Hamburg – thirtyfivehoursandfourtyfiveminutes

2008
The Wharf Road Project, V22, London – Human Resources
Nicholls and Clarke Building, London – Scene in the Making
ROOM, London – Projection
Goldsmiths, London – MFA Show
Atelier Frankfurt, Frankfurt – April is the cruellest month
The Montague Arms, London – Artist out-of-residence

2007
PACT Zollverein, Essen, Germany – AGORA 07
Goldsmiths College, London - Interim Show

2006
Three Colts Gallery, London - Rag and Bone
Meals and SUV’s, London – Black Autumn Gold supported by The Union
Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London – Day-to-Day Data
Keith Talent Gallery, London – Hostel

2005
Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth – Day-to-Day Data
Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham – Day-to-Day Data

Cube Cinema, Bristol – Device

2004
Electric Palace Cinema, Hastings – Shot by the Sea Film Festival
Bower Ashton – UWE Graduation Show
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol – Frame Academy
Spike Island, Bristol – The Diary of a Pirate Philosopher

 

Education

2010 - 2012  PGCE, Canterbury Christ Church University
2005 – 2008  MFA Art Practice, Goldsmiths College, London
2001 – 2004  BA Hons Fine Art in Context, University of the West of England

 

Teaching

Visiting Tutor - Critical Fine Art Practice, Brighton Univeristy - 2013 - Ongoing

Homeless Outreach Tutor - City of Westminster College - 2008-2013

 

Sam Curtis is represented by Division of Labour