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Mandy El-Sayegh (b. 1985, Selangor, Malaysia) East Acton based, had her first institutional solo show, the specially commissioned installation Cite Your Sources, at London’s Chisenhale Gallery in 2019. She was shortlisted for the biannual Max Mara Art Prize for Women in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery, London in 2017.
Selected recent commissions/exhibitions include: Sursock Museum, Beirut, Lebanon (2019); SculptureCenter, Long Island City, NY, USA (2019); The Mistake Room, Guadalajara, Mexico (2018); Instituto de Visión, Bogotá, Colombia (2018); Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China (2017); and the New York Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1, Queens, NY, USA (2016)
Solo exhibitions
2019
Mandy El-Sayegh: The Amateur and problems with metaphor, Home Works 8: A Forum on Cultural Practices, Sursock Museum, Beirut, Lebanon
Mandy El-Sayegh: White Grounds, Bétonsalon, Paris, France
Dispersal, Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong
Cite Your Sources, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
2018
MUTATIONS IN BLUE, WHITE AND RED, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY, USA
Mandy El-Sayegh: assembled at Tell el Ajjul, The Mistake Room, Guadalajara, Mexico
2017
Figured Ground: Meshworks, Carl Kostyál, London, UK
2016
Mandy El-Sayegh: Taking Part, Galerie Mihai Nicodim, Bucharest, Romania
This is a sign, Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK
Group exhibitions
2021
British Art Show 9, Wolverhampton Art Gallery and University of Wolverhampton School of Art, Wolverhampton; Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen; The Box, KARST, The Arts Institute’s Levinsky Gallery and The Gallery at Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth; HOME, Manchester Art Gallery, Castlefield Gallery, The Whitworth and the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA), Manchester, UK
2020
A Focus on Painting, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London, UK
your words will be used against you, Frieze LIVE 2020, The Institute of Melodic Healing, London, UK
Our ashes make great fertilizer, cur. Saelia Aparicio and Harminder Judge, PUBLIC Gallery, London, UK
2019
Searching the Sky for Rain, SculptureCenter, Long Island City, NY, USA
Ecologies of Darkness, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
2018
Deterioro y Poder, Instituto de Visión, Bogotá, Colombia
2017
Lessons in Agronomy, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China
The Mask Makers, cur. Marcel Dzama, Independent Art Fair, Brussels, Belgium
Boundary Work, Sharjah Biennial 13: Tamawuj, cur. Christine Tohme, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2016
Room Services (with Oscar Murillo and Yutaka Sone), New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY, USA
For Pete’s Sake, Carl Kostyál, Stockholm, Sweden
2011
Elizabeth House, London, UK
Responsive Eye, London Gallery West, London, UK
RCA Painting Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2010
RCA Panting Interim Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Public and private collections
ChinaStart Museum, Shanghai
United Arab Emirates
Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah
UK
Kamel Lazaar Foundation, London
Collection Nicoletta Fiorucci Russo, London