Sabine Mirlesse

Franco-American artist Sabine Mirlesse holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religious Studies and English Literature from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, and additionally studied for one year at the Universiteit van Amsterdam in The Netherlands. In 2010 she graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Parsons the New School for Design in New York City.

Her work explores stories about land, geology, ritual, thresholds and imprints, the individual’s relationship to origin, and a place’s ability to evoke narrative whether real or imagined. Much of her inspiration is grounded in literature.

Photography is her primary medium, however drawings, found images, relief prints, stone work, video, and writing are also incorporated into her practice.
In 2018, she spent several months as an artist-in- residence at Santa Fe Art Institute in New Mexico. Mirlesse’s second monograph, Pietra di Luce, published with Les Graphiquants in 2019, includes essays by Federica Soletta and Jean-Pierre Criqui.

EXHIBITIONS AT THE GALLERY

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020: Pietra di Luce, Galerie Bigaignon, Paris
2019: Pietra di Luce, Galerie Au Roi, Paris, France
2017: Oblations, Projektor, Paris, France
2016: As if it should have been a quarry, La Galerie Particulière, Brussels, Belgium
2015: As if it should have been a quarry, La Galerie Particulière, Paris, France

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020
Les Métamorphoses, Vidéodrome, Porto Vecchio, Corsica
Still Light, Cité de L’Image Clervaux, Luxembourg
United, Galerie Bigaignon, Paris, France

2019
Turtle/Bienvenue Art Fair, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris, France (forthcoming)
Fiac/EDVO stand, Paris, France (forthcoming)
Cette histoire que nous découvrons en creusant dans la terre, L’Orfèvrerie, Saint-Denis, France

2017
Fragments, La Frontiera gallery, Paris, France

2014
Hyper Active, Parsons Design Center, Shangai, China
Against Nature, Gallery Ho, New York, USA

2013
Marseille vu par 100 photographes (curated by Antoine d’Agata), Bibliothèque départementale, Marseille, France

2011
What matters now?, Proposals for a new front page, Aperture Gallery, New York, USA
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, SIM House, Reykjavic, Iceland
Studio Vortex, Galerie Montgrand, Marseille, France

2010
Parsons Graduate photography Thesis Exhibition, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Gallery, New York, USA
Projections, Atelier de Visu, Marseille, France

AWARDS & GRANTS

2018: Cultural Services project grant, French Embassy in the United States, Los Angeles, California
2017: Grand Prix Images Vevey shortlist
2016: Baum Foundation Nominee for Emerging Photographer of the Year
2013: Magenta Foundation/Flash Forward Emerging Photographer, Toronto, Canada
2009, 2011 & 2012: Joop Swart Masterclass Nominee, World Press Photo, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2008-2010: The New School University Graduate Dean Scholarship, New York, New York

RESIDENCIES

2020: Manifesto, Poush, Clichy, France
2018: Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico, USA
2017: Villa Lena Foundation, Tuscany, Italy
2012, 2014: Akos, Art Center of Social Studies, Yerevan, Armenia
2011: Samband Íslenskra Myndlistarmanna, The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists, Reykjavik, Iceland
2010: Atelier de Visu, Marseille, France

SELECT ARTWORKS

PUBLICATIONS

Pietra di Luce, Ed. Quants, 2019
As if it should have been a quarry, Ed. Damiani Publishers, 2013