SAM HOPKINS C.V

Address: Date of Birth: 5th April 1979
PO box 16526, Nairobi (KEN)

Email: sam@slum-tv.org Website: www.samhopkins.org

Exhibitions and Festivals

2008:
The way we like it, Village Market, Nairobi (KEN)

2007:
Sind Sie Mein Doppelganger, Oxford-Bonn Festival, Bonn (GER)
Out of Site, Performance Festival, Dublin (IR)
Montreal Underground Film Festival, Montreal (CAN)
Eintagsfliege, Galerie Inges, Berlin (GER)
2oth Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart (GER)

2006:
the naked snail, Glassbox Gallery, Erfurt (GER)
aftermath, Town Hall Gallery, Oxford (UK)
Crossing, Entropia Gallery, Wroclaw (POL)
Strange Cargo, Centre for Digital Art, Vienna (A)
Strings, Chiltern Sculpture Trail, Chilterns (UK)
15 minutes of fun, Weimar (GER)
Zeughof, Weimar (GER)
577,4: The Distance Between, Leuven (BEL)

2005:
Contemporary Arts and Music Festival: Oxford Brookes University, Oxford (UK)
Traces: A Walk through Oxford: Phoenix Picture House, Oxford (UK)
Coming Out: Exhibition of New Graduates: Euro Art Gallery, London (UK)

2004:
Foundfaces: Participatory Art Project, Cowley Road, Oxford (UK)

Workshops

2006:
Kuona Trust Landscape Art Workshop, Ngong forest, Nairobi (KEN)

2004:
Wasanii: 4th International Artists Workshop, Lamu, (KEN)

Education

2005-2006:
Bauhaus University: MFA in Public Art New Creative Strategies (Elective)

2004-2005:
Oxford Brookes University: MA Social Sculpture (Distinction)

2003-2004:
Oxford Brookes University: BTEC in Art and Design (Distinction)

1998-2002:
Edinburgh University: MA (Hons) Spanish and History (First Class)

2000-2001:
University of Havana: Marxist Philosophy, Cuban History (Elective)

2000-2001:
San Alejandro Art School, Cuba,: Sculpture, Portraiture (Elective)

1995-1997:
Sevenoaks School: International Baccalaureate (40 points)

Residencies and Awards

2008:
Three-month residency, Gera city / Otto Dix Kunstsammlung, Gera (GER)

2007:
20th Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Selection of the naked snail

2005/6:
Erasmus Grant for Study Abroad, Weimar (GER)

2004/5:
AHRC Research Preparation Masters Scheme Award, Oxford (UK)

2003:
Two-month residency, Godown Art Studios, Nairobi (KEN)

Work

2007:
Slum TV Inaugural Workshop, Nairobi (KEN)
Video Workshop, The Courtyard Arts Centre, Bicester (UK)
Stencil Workshop, The Courtyard Arts Centre, Bicester (UK)

2006:
Mentee of Peter Dunn, Public Sculpture, Barton, Oxford (UK)
Participatory Video, Kings End Estate, The Courtyard Arts Centre, Bicester (UK)
Mural, Oxford Brookes Student Union, Oxford (UK)
Stencil Art Workshop and Mural, The Courtyard Arts Centre, Bicester (UK)

2005:
Drawing and stencil workshop, Didcot Youth Arts Centre, Didcot (UK)
Photography Workshop, Kuona Arts Trust, Nairobi (KEN)

2004:
Community Art Workshop, Mathare Youth Sports Association, Nairobi (KEN)