Sam Holden
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Personal
b. 1978 Bristol, UK. Currently living in London

Artistic practice
Using a range of approaches and a variety of media, my work primarily
focuses on lens-based portraiture; exploring issues surrounding multiple identities, hyperconsciousness, self-image and the image repertoire.

Education
Postgraduate Certificate: Teaching in Higher Education
CLTAD, University of the Arts, London (completion date: March 2010)

Masters Degree in Photography
London College of Communication (UAL), London

BA (Hons) Degree in Editorial Photography
University of Brighton

Foundation Diploma in Art & Design (Photography Specialism)
Exeter College, Devon

Exhibitions/Screenings/Projects:
2010
Screening One
The Public, West Bromich, UK. March 13th – April 25th 2010

The Triumph of Failure
Noam Gallery, Seoul, S.Korea. February 24th - March 9th 2010

6th London Short Film Festival
London, 8th - 17th January 2010

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2009
16th Sheffield International Documentary Festival
Sheffield, UK, November 4th - 8th 2009

Outcasting, Season 9
Cardiff, Wales, September 1st - October 31st 2009

Duration:London
Candid Arts Trust, London, October 27th 2009

Reading Experimental Film Festival 2009
Whitley Arts Fetsival, Reading, Oct 23-25th 2009

Projected Weekends 2009
Digital Hub, Dublin, October 2nd - 4th 2009

Rushes Soho Shorts Film Festival 2009,
Tenderpixel Gallery, London, July 26th - 30th 2009

Video Art Festival Miden 2009
Kalamata, Greece, July 10th - 12th 2009

Crosstalk Video Art Festival,
Budapest, Hungary, June 25th - 30th 2009

Camberwell Arts Festival,
Camberwell, London, June 20th - 28th 2009

5th Short Film Festival FF600,
Ljubljana, Slovenia, May 28th - 29th 2009

Simultan Video/Media Arts Festival,
Timisoara, Romania, May 21st - 23rd 2009

Windows Festival,
Belfast, Northern Ireland, April 23rd - 30th 2009

Shorts,
Norwich Arts Centre, Norfolk, April 21st 2009

Bloomberg New Contemporaries,
Rochelle School, London, Dec 6th - Feb 1st 2009

The Age of Enlightenment,
Digital Screen (QUAD), Derby, Sept 2008 – January 2009

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Hector and me, single channel video
Blackboard, installation
Focus, single channel videos
Transmission (32 channels), single channel video

2008 - 2007
Identitymix (LAB),
Cologne Online Film Festival IV, Dec 11th 2008

Exposures: Talent In Moving Image,
Cornerhouse, Manchester, Nov 23rd - 27th 2008

Beyond Film Festival,
Durham, November 22nd-23rd 2008

Unseen,
Backlit Gallery, Nottingham, Nov 21st 2008

Best in Show,
Digital Hub, Dublin, Nov 20th - 27th 2008

13th CanariaMediaFest,
Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Oct 23rd - Nov 1st 2008

Switch,
Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, Oct 27th - 31st 2008

3rd Streaming Festival 2008,
The Hague, October 23 - 26th 2008

Once More With Feeling,
Southwark Playhouse, London, Oct 11th - 17th 2008

Vid-e-o-phile,
Phoenix Arts, Brighton, Oct 11-12th 2008

Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2008,
Liverpool Biennal of Contemporary Art, Sept '08

The Mirror Stage,
Independent Museum of Contemporary Art(NeMe), Cyprus, Sept 2008

Men's Work,
Artlink, Hull. Sept 5th - Oct 6th 2008

Collision 2008,
Area 10 Project Space, Peckham, London. Sept 11th - 13th 2008

7th Kansk International Video Festival,
Kansk, Russia, Sept 1st – 7th 2008

Videoholica,
Biennial of Visual Arts, Varnu, Bulgaria, August 7th - August 28th 2008

Visual Routes,
Olympolis, Olympus Festival, Katerini, Greece. July 12th - 20th 2008

FreshFacedandWildEyed 08,
The Photographer's Gallery, London. Jun 20th - Jul 6th '08

Shorts,
Norwich Arts Centre, Norfolk, April 16th 2008

Surveillance,
South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell. November 30th – January 20th 2008

LCC MA Photography 2007,
The Well Gallery, LCC, London. November 20th – 27th '07

Throes,
Victoria Court Interiors, Nottingham. November 13th – 20th 2007

Photography for Beginners,
The Well Gallery, LCC, London, April 14th – 20th 2007

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Performance, multimedia installation
Once More With Feeling, multimedia installation
70 Still Frames and 5 Minutes 50 Seconds of Video, single channel video
Dialogue, photography.
Photographers – Part Three, photography

2006 - 2005

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Photographers – Part Two, photography
The Path of Least Resistance, photography
Photographers – Part One, photography (Independent Newspaper's Saturday Magazine)
Wish You Were Here, photography

2004 - 2000
Reactions,
OKI Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. January 12th – 21st 2004

Click,
The Bridge Gallery, London. July 1st – 8th 2003

BA Editorial Photography Degree Show,
University of Brighton, Brighton. Jun 23rd – 30th 2003

Digital Sleaze,
ICA, London, July 21st 2002

Surface Noise,
Escola Mansana, Barcelona. April 16th – 23rd 2002

Notes on Representation,
Derelict building, New North Road, Exeter. June 5th - 12th 2000

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Reactions – series’ 1, 2 & 3, photography
Reactions - single channel video
One Thousand One Hundred and Forty-four Words, photography
Smile, photography
Notes on Representation, photography

Photographic Experience
Recent editorial and commercial clients:
The Observer, The Independent on Saturday, The Sunday Times Magazine,
The Mail on Sunday’s ‘You’ Magazine , The Guardian, The Times, The Financial Times,
Golfpunk Magazine, Attitude, Trace (NYC), Sleazenation, Dazed and Confused, Hekmag, Yahoo!, Topshop, H&M, Nickelodeon, Sure, Virgin, BVHE, Disney, Danone, Resonate,
ViewCreative, Frank PR, Consolidated Communications and JCPR

Publications:
New Contemporaries 2008, Edited by Bev Bytheway & Eileen Daly, ISBN: 9780954084882
canariamediafest08, Edited by Claudia Gianetti, Published by Cabildo de Gran Canaria

Collections/Prizes
National Portrait Gallery (Permanent Collection), London
Private Collections
Kentmere Black & White Photography Prize, 2002

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