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Suky Best

Country of residence United Kingdom
Contact Suky Best

Education: MA Photography, Royal College of Art 1992-1995
BSc (HONS) Geography North London Polytechnic 1981-1984
Awards:2004-5 Wellcome Trust SCIART Research & Development Award Small animal animations to reduce stress; 2002: London Arts Board individual artist award
2000-1: Year of the Artist residency, Cleeve Abbey funded by DA2, English Heritage and South West Arts; 1998-2000: Fellowship in Printmaking, Wolverhampton University funded by the Henry Moore Foundation 1994: John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award, Joint First Prize.

Selected Solo Exhibitions 2005 : The Return turn of the Native A Film and Video Umbrella Commission; BCA Gallery Bedford; Pump House Gallery, London; Wild West (in collaboration with Rory Hamilton); ArtNow The Lightbox Tate Britain, London; Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London; Stills Gallery Edinburgh; 2002: Recent Work Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London; 2001:10 Journeys Dartmoor Insight/Aha/Da2 Commission and touring the way we live now Lighthouse Media Gallery, Wolverhampton; 2000: Walking Meditation Cleeve Abbey Washford Somerset; the time for talking is over Margaret Harvey Gallery, St Albans; 1999: Photo-Love 2 Amsterdam Centrum Vor Fotographie; 1997: That was then...This is now! The Photographers’ Gallery, London

Selected Group Exhibitions: 2007: Towards a New Ease Fotomuseum Winterthur Switzerland; Close at Hand Contemporary Art Projects London; Scodown! D.U.M.B.O . Arts Centre, New York; Bloomberg Art Futures, Bloomberg Space London; Portfolio Foam Magazine Spring Visual Fictions Fenton Gallery Cork Ireland 2006; Tulca Festival of Visual art Galway; Naturaleza:Photoespania; Various Venues Madrid; Timeless:time, landscape and new media Harbourfront Centre, Toronto; MIMA:offsite, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art; His Life is Full of Miracles Site Gallery Sheffield; Video Art & Drawing, Art Projects London Art Fair, London, Edition print commissioned by Times Newspapers to accompany Art Fair
2005: The Projection Room County Hall, Dun Laoghaire, Eire; Bloomberg Art Futures Bloomberg Space, London 2004: Magic within Reason Domo Ball Gallery, London; Trace edition Hirschl Contemporary Art, London 2003: Exhumed The Museum of Garden History, London, catalogue ISBN 0 9537752 9 1; Winners Exhibition John Kobal 10 Anniversary National Portrait Gallery, London catalogue ISBN 1-85514-510-3; Julian Walker and Suky Best Unit 2 London 2000: East International Norwich Gallery; Selected by Mary Kelly and Peter Wollen, catalogue ISBN 1 872482 54 6; Travellers Tales/Web Commission INIVA www.travellers-tales.co.uk; ex-machina Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin; Galerie Schüppenhauer, Koln, catalogue ISBN 3-926796-63 4; Grid Vision Southern Arts Touring ,Catalogue ISBN 1 873451 43 1; 1999: The 23rd International Biennial of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
International Centre of Graphic Arts ISBN 961-6229-02-8;

Exhibitions The Animal Gaze, 18.Nov - 13.Dec.08, Unit 2, New works for the V22, 05.Oct - 11.Nov.07, Ashwin Street, About Running, 21.Sep - 14.Oct.07, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Close at Hand, 12.Apr - 20.May.07, Contemporary Art Projects

Events Private View for Close at Hand, 19.Apr.07, 6.30-8.30pm

 

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