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Sarah Mei Herman 1980
Vit à Amsterdam. Travaille dans Amsterdam.
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Galerie Caroline O'Breen
In her work Sarah Mei Herman explores relationships and intimacy between people. The closeness between them or what sets them apart, and the necessity of physical proximity to others. The most fragile and elusive contact between people often seems to exist beyond the reach of language.
Herman focuses mainly on adolescents; their constant state of becoming; the fleeting beauty of the continual changes and transitions they go through on their way to adulthood. Her photos seem to be carefully taken, precise and subtle, and always captured in a special light. They hold your gaze and deal with the ever-changing life, with growth, with love.
Herman focuses mainly on adolescents; their constant state of becoming; the fleeting beauty of the continual changes and transitions they go through on their way to adulthood. Her photos seem to be carefully taken, precise and subtle, and always captured in a special light. They hold your gaze and deal with the ever-changing life, with growth, with love.
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The series 'Julian and Jonathan' - Sarah Mei Herman
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Traversing vulnerability and adolescence
The sibling relationships she documents symbolise the multi-faceted meaning of “home” as a concept that extends beyond the four walls that frame your existence. Herman’s photography could be described as documentary, a visual representation of the evolution of self. Adolescence is marked by a constant state of becoming and Sarah Mei Herman captures the fleeting beauty that is amalgamated by the perpetual changes endured in youth. Her images show both resilience and loneliness, comfort and uncertainty. A period of uncontrollable ephemerality, grounded by the relationships and ordinary objects that quilt together a patchwork of self.
Darcie Imbert
Head Art Affairs UMC about Sarah's work
Sarah Mei Herman usually photographs adolescents, the group that seems to miss the mutual contact the most. By following her models for a longer period of time, Mei Herman establishes a relationship of trust with them. This way she can penetrate into their feelings, which are almost tangible in her photos. Through this glimpse into another person’s feelings, the artist subtly activates the viewer's perspective.
Sabrina Kamstra
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Sarah Mei Herman studied photography at the Royal Academy of Fine Art in The Hague, from which she received her BA in 2005. In 2010 she completed her MA in Fine Art Photography at The Royal College of Art in London. Herman’s work has been shown internationally, among others at The National Portrait Gallery in London, at Le Chateau d’Eau in Toulouse and at JIMEI X ARLES International Photofestival 2016 and 2017. As a finalist for Hyères Festival of Fashion and Photography 2018, she won the American Vintage Photography Prize 2018. She also won the Rabobank Dutch Photograhic Portrait Prize 2018.
Herman received several grants from Prins Bernard Cultuur Fund and Mondriaan Fund, including a current Established Artists Stipendium.
Herman received several grants from Prins Bernard Cultuur Fund and Mondriaan Fund, including a current Established Artists Stipendium.
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Education
MA Photography: Royal College of Art, London, 2008 - 2010
BA Photography: Royal Academy of Fine Arts, The Hague, 2001 – 2005
Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, 1999 – 2000
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2021 Germano, Kaunas Photography Gallery, Kaunas, LT (upcoming)
2020 Germano, Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam, NL
2019 Coalescence, American Vintage Photography Prize 2018, Hyères, FR
2018 Coalescence, American Vintage Photography Prize 2018, Paris, FR
2015 Screen Touch, Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen, CN
2014 Un Peu, Beaucoup… La Vie!, Le Chateau d’Eau, Toulouse, FR
2014 Between us, Kahmann Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2010 A Wordless Whisper, Art Foundation Soledad Senlle, Amsterdam, NL
Group exhibitions (selection)
2020 Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens, GR
2020 Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards, Ilham Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, MY
2020 Explorations of Time and Space, Caroline O'Breen Gallery, Amsterdam 2020
2019 We Like Art, Collectie DE.GROEN, Arnhem, NL
2019 Fotofestival Naarden, NL
2019 Door de ogen Van, Museum Hilversum, NL
2018 Rabobank Dutch Photographic Portrait Prize, Rabobank Utrecht, NL
2018 Confusing Private and Public, 3rd Beijing Photo Biennial, CN
2018Hyères 33e Festival de Mode, de Photographie et d’Accessoires de Mode, Hyères, FR
2017 Jimei x Arles: East West Encounters, International Photofestival, Xiamen, CN
2017 Rolling Snowball #8, Datong Museum, Datong, CN
2017 Oscillation, Le Chateau d’Eau, Toulouse, FR
2017 Landskrona Foto Festival, You And Me, Landskrona, SE
2017 Rolling Snowball #8, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Xiamen, CN
2017 Bellamy Kabinet, Amsterdam, NL
2017 Making Waves, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam, NL
2017 Quietude, Exposuretwelve, Berlin, DE
2016 Jimei x Arles: East West Encounters, International Photofestival, Xiamen, CN
2016 Gravity, De Punt, Amsterdam, NL
2016 Haute Photography, Las Palmas, Rotterdam, NL 2015/ 2016 Intimacy, Seelevel Gallery, Amsterdam, NL 2015 Rolling Snowball # 6, CEAC, Djupivogur, Iceland, IS
2015 Etonnantes Affinités, 40 years collection Chateau d’Eau, Couvent des Jacobins, Toulouse, FR
2015 Young in Prison, exhibition + photo auction Christies, Amsterdam, NL
2014 The Folk Revisited, Volkshotel, Amsterdam, NL
2014 Photo España, Surprising Affinities, Fundacion Antonio Saura, Cuenca, ES
2014 Young in Prison, exhibition + photo auction Christie’s, Amsterdam, NL
2013 Keep on dreaming, New York Photofestival, US
2013 Only You Only Me BIP, Centre Wallonie – Bruxelles, Paris, FR
2012 Film & Foam, collaboration with Kim Boske, & Foam, Amsterdam, NL
2012 Flavours, Kahmann Gallery, NL
2012 Frisse Blik, Kahmann Gallery, NL
2012 Only You Only Me, 8th Int. Biennial of Phot. and Visual Arts, Musée d’Art Moderne, Liege, BE
2011 Trust, De Balie, Amsterdam, NL
2011 15th International Biennale of Young Artists, Thessaloniki, GR
2010 Talents of The Royal College of Art, Kahmann Gallery, Amsterdam,NL
2010 Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2010 UK Young Artists, Derby,UK
2010 Signature Art Awards, Degree Art Gallery, London, UK
2010 Art Works Open, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London, UK
2010 Renaissance Photography Prize, Hospital Private Members Club, London, UK
2008 Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF), SG
Art fairs
2019 Art Rotterdam, We Like Art, NL
2017 Art Rotterdam, We Like Art, NL
2016 Unseen Photofair, Gallery Caroline O’Breen Amsterdam, NL
2015 Slick Attitude Artfair, Paris, FR
2014 Unseen Photofair, Kahmann Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2013 Pan Amsterdam, NL
2013 Scope Basel, Kahmann Gallery, Basel CH
Selected publications (print & online)
2020 Booooooom, written by Anna Schneider, April, CA
2019 Vostok Magazine, by Ji-Soo Park, KR
2019 Hyeres x Lacoste x Boycott
2018 INDIE Magazine, Home, written by Darcy Imbert, Issue 60, Autumn 2018, DE
2018 NRC Handelsblad, Interview winnaar portretprijs, Rianne van Dijck, 25 november 2018, NL
2018 Vogue Italia, Photo Stories, June 2018, IT
2018 Artsy, The Agony and Ecstasy of Young Love, Demie Kim
2018 GUP International Photography Magazine, Transition, Issue #56, NL
2017 Photography of China, FR
2016 Der Greif, Issue #9, DE
2016 Burn Magazine
2016 I-D Magazine, written by Aice Newell-Hanson
2016 Feature Shoot, written by Eva Clifford
2014 Photo World, Best European Contemporary Photographers, written by Dr. T. Rosenstein, CN
2014 Collect Magazine, April issue, BE
2014 New Dawn Paper, Volume 1, X Publishers, NL
2013 Ignant, written by Hannah Edwards, DE
2012 Booooooom, written by Jeff Hamada, April, CA
2012 Tableau Fine Arts Magazine, Hollandse Liefde in Luik, April issue, BE
2011 BCJEM - XV Biennale de la Méditerranée, Symbiosis? GR
2011 Nido Magazine, Hamburg, October issue, DE
2011 The Art Economist, Artist to watch, Volume 1 / issue 3, US
2011 Dear Dave Magazine, Swimsuit issue, March issue, US
2010 Foam Magazine - Portfolio publication in Foam Talent # 24, interview by Marc Feustel, NL
2010 Magenta Flash Forward Festival, Emerging Photographers, UK
2006 Volkskrant Magazine, Eerste Liefdes (First Love), February issue, NL
Grants / Awards
2019 Projectgrant, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK), NL
2019 Stichting Stokroos, NL
2018 Rabobank Dutch Photographic Portrait Prize, NL
2018 American Vintage Photography Award, FR
2017 Stipendium Established Artists, Mondriaan Fonds, NL
2014 Flexible Project Grant, Mondriaan Fonds, NL
2013 Fixed Project Grant, Mondriaan Fonds, NL
2009 Flexible Project Grant, Fonds BKVB, NL
2009 Royal College of Art Bursary, London, UK
2009 Young Talent Grant, Prins Bernard Cultuurfonds, NL
2008 Flexible Project Grant, Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam
2008 Royal College of Art Bursary, London, UK
2007 Stipendium Emerging Artists, Fonds BKVB, NL
Collections
Rabobank Art Collection, NL
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NL
AMC Art Collection, NL
Le Chateau d’Eau, Toulouse, FR
Kahmann Gallery, NL
MIAP Art Foundation, NL
MK Gallery, Rotterdam, NL
Several private collections
Other
2021 UMC commissioned art work in response to Covid-19 (upcoming)
2020/ 2021 Diverse Humanity, photobook assignment LGBTQ China (upcoming)
2018 Finalist: Hyères 33e Festival de Mode, de Photographie et d’acces. de mode, Hyères, FR
2016 A Process 2.0, Der Greif, Krakow Photomonth 2016, PL
2015 Lodz Fotofestiwal - Shortlist, PL
2014 Format Festival, Nomination longlist - Derby, UK
2014 Voies Off Editions, Artistic Portfolio, Arles, FR
2013 Commissioned work for Miap Foundation, Message in a Photo, NL
2012 Nomination for Viewbook Photostory 2012: Small Stories, NL
2011 Selected for Emergentes DST – Encontros Da Imagem, Braga, PT
2010 Selected for Foam Talent # 24, Foam Magazine, NL
2010 Magenta Foundation, Honourable Mention, Flash Forward, UK
2009 Nomination National Magazine Award, London, UK
2007 Commission Fine Art Photography - Municipality of Amersfoort: Teenagers in Amersfoort, NL
Residencies
2016 Artist in residence at Kaunas Gallery – second visit, Kaunas, LT
2015 Artist in Residence at Kaunas Gallery, Kaunas, LT
2014/ 2015 Artist in Residence at CEAC, Xiamen, CN
Screenings
2017 Nuit des Images, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, CH
2014 Spotlight – 5 years of Foam Talent, Felix & Foam, Amsterdam, NL
2014 Spotlight – 5 years of Foam Talent, Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, FR
2014 Voies Off Festival, Night projection, Archbishop’s Palace courtyard, Arles, FR
2014 Weekend de l’Art Contemporain, video “Jana and Feby”, Les Abbatoirs, Toulouse, FR
2011 Voies Off Festival, Night projection, Archbishop’s Palace courtyard, Arles, FR
Artist talks/ Teaching
2016 Pechakucha, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Xiamen, CN
2015 Artist Talk: Seelevel Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2015 Artist Talk: Kaunas College of Art, Kaunas, LT
2015 Workshop at Art College, Xiamen University, Xiamen, CN
2015 Artist Talk: “Van Gogh Talk”, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, NL
2012 – 2016 Various workshops at Photo Academy Amsterdam, NL
2014 Artist talk: C-Platform, Xiamen, CN
2014 Artist talk: University Xiamen, Art College, Xiamen, CN
2012 Workshop at Amsterdam Centre for Photography (ACF), Amsterdam, NL
2011 Artist talk: Leeds College of Art, Leeds, UK
2010 Artist talk: University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
MA Photography: Royal College of Art, London, 2008 - 2010
BA Photography: Royal Academy of Fine Arts, The Hague, 2001 – 2005
Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, 1999 – 2000
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2021 Germano, Kaunas Photography Gallery, Kaunas, LT (upcoming)
2020 Germano, Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam, NL
2019 Coalescence, American Vintage Photography Prize 2018, Hyères, FR
2018 Coalescence, American Vintage Photography Prize 2018, Paris, FR
2015 Screen Touch, Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen, CN
2014 Un Peu, Beaucoup… La Vie!, Le Chateau d’Eau, Toulouse, FR
2014 Between us, Kahmann Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2010 A Wordless Whisper, Art Foundation Soledad Senlle, Amsterdam, NL
Group exhibitions (selection)
2020 Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens, GR
2020 Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards, Ilham Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, MY
2020 Explorations of Time and Space, Caroline O'Breen Gallery, Amsterdam 2020
2019 We Like Art, Collectie DE.GROEN, Arnhem, NL
2019 Fotofestival Naarden, NL
2019 Door de ogen Van, Museum Hilversum, NL
2018 Rabobank Dutch Photographic Portrait Prize, Rabobank Utrecht, NL
2018 Confusing Private and Public, 3rd Beijing Photo Biennial, CN
2018Hyères 33e Festival de Mode, de Photographie et d’Accessoires de Mode, Hyères, FR
2017 Jimei x Arles: East West Encounters, International Photofestival, Xiamen, CN
2017 Rolling Snowball #8, Datong Museum, Datong, CN
2017 Oscillation, Le Chateau d’Eau, Toulouse, FR
2017 Landskrona Foto Festival, You And Me, Landskrona, SE
2017 Rolling Snowball #8, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Xiamen, CN
2017 Bellamy Kabinet, Amsterdam, NL
2017 Making Waves, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam, NL
2017 Quietude, Exposuretwelve, Berlin, DE
2016 Jimei x Arles: East West Encounters, International Photofestival, Xiamen, CN
2016 Gravity, De Punt, Amsterdam, NL
2016 Haute Photography, Las Palmas, Rotterdam, NL 2015/ 2016 Intimacy, Seelevel Gallery, Amsterdam, NL 2015 Rolling Snowball # 6, CEAC, Djupivogur, Iceland, IS
2015 Etonnantes Affinités, 40 years collection Chateau d’Eau, Couvent des Jacobins, Toulouse, FR
2015 Young in Prison, exhibition + photo auction Christies, Amsterdam, NL
2014 The Folk Revisited, Volkshotel, Amsterdam, NL
2014 Photo España, Surprising Affinities, Fundacion Antonio Saura, Cuenca, ES
2014 Young in Prison, exhibition + photo auction Christie’s, Amsterdam, NL
2013 Keep on dreaming, New York Photofestival, US
2013 Only You Only Me BIP, Centre Wallonie – Bruxelles, Paris, FR
2012 Film & Foam, collaboration with Kim Boske, & Foam, Amsterdam, NL
2012 Flavours, Kahmann Gallery, NL
2012 Frisse Blik, Kahmann Gallery, NL
2012 Only You Only Me, 8th Int. Biennial of Phot. and Visual Arts, Musée d’Art Moderne, Liege, BE
2011 Trust, De Balie, Amsterdam, NL
2011 15th International Biennale of Young Artists, Thessaloniki, GR
2010 Talents of The Royal College of Art, Kahmann Gallery, Amsterdam,NL
2010 Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2010 UK Young Artists, Derby,UK
2010 Signature Art Awards, Degree Art Gallery, London, UK
2010 Art Works Open, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London, UK
2010 Renaissance Photography Prize, Hospital Private Members Club, London, UK
2008 Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF), SG
Art fairs
2019 Art Rotterdam, We Like Art, NL
2017 Art Rotterdam, We Like Art, NL
2016 Unseen Photofair, Gallery Caroline O’Breen Amsterdam, NL
2015 Slick Attitude Artfair, Paris, FR
2014 Unseen Photofair, Kahmann Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2013 Pan Amsterdam, NL
2013 Scope Basel, Kahmann Gallery, Basel CH
Selected publications (print & online)
2020 Booooooom, written by Anna Schneider, April, CA
2019 Vostok Magazine, by Ji-Soo Park, KR
2019 Hyeres x Lacoste x Boycott
2018 INDIE Magazine, Home, written by Darcy Imbert, Issue 60, Autumn 2018, DE
2018 NRC Handelsblad, Interview winnaar portretprijs, Rianne van Dijck, 25 november 2018, NL
2018 Vogue Italia, Photo Stories, June 2018, IT
2018 Artsy, The Agony and Ecstasy of Young Love, Demie Kim
2018 GUP International Photography Magazine, Transition, Issue #56, NL
2017 Photography of China, FR
2016 Der Greif, Issue #9, DE
2016 Burn Magazine
2016 I-D Magazine, written by Aice Newell-Hanson
2016 Feature Shoot, written by Eva Clifford
2014 Photo World, Best European Contemporary Photographers, written by Dr. T. Rosenstein, CN
2014 Collect Magazine, April issue, BE
2014 New Dawn Paper, Volume 1, X Publishers, NL
2013 Ignant, written by Hannah Edwards, DE
2012 Booooooom, written by Jeff Hamada, April, CA
2012 Tableau Fine Arts Magazine, Hollandse Liefde in Luik, April issue, BE
2011 BCJEM - XV Biennale de la Méditerranée, Symbiosis? GR
2011 Nido Magazine, Hamburg, October issue, DE
2011 The Art Economist, Artist to watch, Volume 1 / issue 3, US
2011 Dear Dave Magazine, Swimsuit issue, March issue, US
2010 Foam Magazine - Portfolio publication in Foam Talent # 24, interview by Marc Feustel, NL
2010 Magenta Flash Forward Festival, Emerging Photographers, UK
2006 Volkskrant Magazine, Eerste Liefdes (First Love), February issue, NL
Grants / Awards
2019 Projectgrant, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK), NL
2019 Stichting Stokroos, NL
2018 Rabobank Dutch Photographic Portrait Prize, NL
2018 American Vintage Photography Award, FR
2017 Stipendium Established Artists, Mondriaan Fonds, NL
2014 Flexible Project Grant, Mondriaan Fonds, NL
2013 Fixed Project Grant, Mondriaan Fonds, NL
2009 Flexible Project Grant, Fonds BKVB, NL
2009 Royal College of Art Bursary, London, UK
2009 Young Talent Grant, Prins Bernard Cultuurfonds, NL
2008 Flexible Project Grant, Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam
2008 Royal College of Art Bursary, London, UK
2007 Stipendium Emerging Artists, Fonds BKVB, NL
Collections
Rabobank Art Collection, NL
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NL
AMC Art Collection, NL
Le Chateau d’Eau, Toulouse, FR
Kahmann Gallery, NL
MIAP Art Foundation, NL
MK Gallery, Rotterdam, NL
Several private collections
Other
2021 UMC commissioned art work in response to Covid-19 (upcoming)
2020/ 2021 Diverse Humanity, photobook assignment LGBTQ China (upcoming)
2018 Finalist: Hyères 33e Festival de Mode, de Photographie et d’acces. de mode, Hyères, FR
2016 A Process 2.0, Der Greif, Krakow Photomonth 2016, PL
2015 Lodz Fotofestiwal - Shortlist, PL
2014 Format Festival, Nomination longlist - Derby, UK
2014 Voies Off Editions, Artistic Portfolio, Arles, FR
2013 Commissioned work for Miap Foundation, Message in a Photo, NL
2012 Nomination for Viewbook Photostory 2012: Small Stories, NL
2011 Selected for Emergentes DST – Encontros Da Imagem, Braga, PT
2010 Selected for Foam Talent # 24, Foam Magazine, NL
2010 Magenta Foundation, Honourable Mention, Flash Forward, UK
2009 Nomination National Magazine Award, London, UK
2007 Commission Fine Art Photography - Municipality of Amersfoort: Teenagers in Amersfoort, NL
Residencies
2016 Artist in residence at Kaunas Gallery – second visit, Kaunas, LT
2015 Artist in Residence at Kaunas Gallery, Kaunas, LT
2014/ 2015 Artist in Residence at CEAC, Xiamen, CN
Screenings
2017 Nuit des Images, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, CH
2014 Spotlight – 5 years of Foam Talent, Felix & Foam, Amsterdam, NL
2014 Spotlight – 5 years of Foam Talent, Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, FR
2014 Voies Off Festival, Night projection, Archbishop’s Palace courtyard, Arles, FR
2014 Weekend de l’Art Contemporain, video “Jana and Feby”, Les Abbatoirs, Toulouse, FR
2011 Voies Off Festival, Night projection, Archbishop’s Palace courtyard, Arles, FR
Artist talks/ Teaching
2016 Pechakucha, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Xiamen, CN
2015 Artist Talk: Seelevel Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2015 Artist Talk: Kaunas College of Art, Kaunas, LT
2015 Workshop at Art College, Xiamen University, Xiamen, CN
2015 Artist Talk: “Van Gogh Talk”, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, NL
2012 – 2016 Various workshops at Photo Academy Amsterdam, NL
2014 Artist talk: C-Platform, Xiamen, CN
2014 Artist talk: University Xiamen, Art College, Xiamen, CN
2012 Workshop at Amsterdam Centre for Photography (ACF), Amsterdam, NL
2011 Artist talk: Leeds College of Art, Leeds, UK
2010 Artist talk: University of Brighton, Brighton, UK