Sarah Ball
Born: South Yorkshire, England 1965
Lives near Penzance, Cornwall UK
Education
2003–2005 MFA, Bath Spa University, Bath, England
1983–1986 Newport Art College, Newport, Wales
Awards
2014
Threadneedle Prize for Painting and Sculpture (shortlisted)
National Open Art Competition, Somerset House, London, England (winner: Best from Wales)
2013
Welsh Artist of the Year (winner)
2012
National Open Art Competition, Somerset House, London, England (winner: Best from Wales)
2005
Purchase Prize, Welsh Millenium Centre/ Oriel Y Bont, University of Glamorgan, Wales (shortlisted)
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions (selected)
2025
Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, China
2024
Tilted, Stephen Friedman Gallery, New York, USA
2022
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (catalogue)
2021
Stephen Friedman Gallery, Frieze New York, USA
2020
Portraits, Ben Hunter Gallery, London, England
2019
Themself, Anima Mundi, St Ives, England
Bertillon, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA
An Unlikely Likeness, Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas, USA
2017
Bertillon, Anima-Mundi, St Ives, Cornwall, England
Kindred, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA
2016
The Garden Room, House of St Barnabas, Soho Square, London, England
2015
Immigrants, Millennium Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall, England
Immigrants, Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Cornwall, England
2014
Accused: Part III, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA
2013
Accused: Part II, Millennium Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall, England
2012
Accused, Millennium Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall, England
2011
Sarah Ball & Meirion Ginsberg, Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff, Wales (two-person)
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2024
Being There, No.1 Royal Crescent, Bath, England
X Collection 202: Portrait of a Man, X Museum, Beijing, China
The Infinite Woman, Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles, France
Contemporary collecting: David Hockney to Cornelia Parker, Gallery 90, British Museum, London, England
From the Ashes, The Truman Brewery, London, England
2023
The Place I Am, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
the artist is a beast: Collection Edwin Oostmeijer, On The Inside, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
A Living Collection, Hepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire, England
2022
Being In the World: The Tenth Anniversary of the Long Museum, Long Museum, Shanghai, China
The Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody, The Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
I'm stepping high, I'm drifting, and there I go leaping, Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao City, China
From Near and Far: Collage and Figuration in the Contemporary Age, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Space for Imaginative Actions, a group show of the collection at Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
2021
TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art, Rachofsky House, Dallas, Texas, USA
Friend Zone, Half Gallery, New York, USA
2020
Underglass 2, Half Gallery, New York, USA
I See You, Victoria Miro, London, England
Ode to a Nightingale, Anima Mundi, St Ives, Cornwall, England
2019
Protected by Alarms, Anima Mundi, St Ives, Cornwall, England
Till We Have Faces (with Natalia Dias), Ten Gallery, Cardiff, Wales
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
2018
As The Crow Flies, bo.lee, London, England
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
Threadneedle Prize for painting and sculpture, Mall Galleries, London, England
2017
REALLY? Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA (curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody)
2016
From Silence, (organised by Anima Mundi), Herrick Gallery, London, England
Marmite Prize for Painting, Block 336, London, England and High Lanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
Threadneedle Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Mall Galleries, London, England
TWO X TWO, Richard Meier-designed Rachofsky House, Dallas, Texas, USA (benefiting amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS research, Dallas, Texas, USA)
2014
National Open Art Competition, Somerset House, London, England
Threadneedle Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Mall Galleries, London, England
Fourteen (the artists’ response), Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre, Wales
One’s Self As Another (curated by boo.lee projects), RWA Bristol, England
2013
Threadneedle Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Mall Galleries, London, England
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
Suspended Sentences, Newlyn, Cornwall, England
Welsh Artist of the Year Exhibition, Cardiff, Wales
2012
National Open Art Competition, Somerset House, London, England
Never, Never, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales
2011
Hunting The Hunted (with Beth Carter and Duncan Cameron), boo.lee Gallery, Bath, England
Wunderkammer, boo.lee Gallery, The Octagon Chapel, Bath, England
2010
RWA 158th Autumn Exhibition, RWA, Bristol, England
Here and Now, Newport Museum and Art Galleries, Newport, England
RWA 3rd Open Painting Exhibition, RWA, Bristol, England
2008
Purchase Prize, Welsh Millenium Centre/ Oriel Y Bont, University of Glamorgan, Wales
2007
RWA Autumn Exhibition, RWA, Bristol, England
Washington Gallery, Penarth, Wales (curated by John Selway)
MA all, Stroud House Gallery, Stroud, England
2005
Undercover, Oriel Davies, Powys, Newtown, Wales
Purchase Prize, Welsh Millenium Centre/ Oriel Y Bont, University of Glamorgan, Wales
Presque Vu, Paintworks, Bristol, England
Collections
British Museum, London, England
Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas, USA
Hepworth Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England
Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker, Norway
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Long Museum, Shanghai, China
Pond Society, Shanghai, China
Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, Texas, USA
University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, Wales
Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao City, China