Stuart Sandford is a multidisciplinary artist based between London, Los Angeles and Mexico City. Working across (and often combining) different media, including photography, sculpture, painting, moving image, and installation, he has exhibited his work widely in galleries and museums around the world, most notabley at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and Centre de la Photographie, Genève. His work has been featured in numerous publications and appears in many notable collections including the Sir Elton John Photography Collection, the Ömer Koç Collection, the Rennie Collection and the collection of the Tom of Finland Foundation.

Education

2006
B.A. (Hons) Fine Art, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Solo, Two and Three Person Presentations

2022

Elysian Fields, James Freeman Gallery, London, UK (with Juliette Losq)

2021

Object to be Desired, ALMANAQUE fotográfica, Mexico City, Mexico (with Claudia Doring-Baez)

2020

LUSH, Almanque fotográfica, Mexico City, Mexico (with Marianna Corcuera and Federico Fernádez)
1421 Laveta Terrace, CULTUREEDIT / Tom of Finland Store - online

2018
Pictures, Queer/Bar, Seattle, USA

2015
Looking: Patrick Angus & Stuart Sandford, Edward Cella, Los Angeles, USA

2014
Teen Dreams, Invisible Line Gallery, London, UK

2011
Stuart Sandford: New and Recent Work, Wessel Snyman, Cape Town, South Africa

2010
Twink, Gallery Daeppen, Basel, Switzerland

Select Group Exhibitions And Fairs

2022

NGXX, Naughton Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland (forthcoming)

UNIQUE : NATURE, ALMANAQUE fotográfica, Mexico City, Mexico
Queer Biennial - Lavender City of Dreams - Queer Diasporas, Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Incisive / Impulsive - Works from the O’Neill Collection, UICA, Michigan, USA
AllTogether - Studio Cannaregio, Venice, Italy
AllTogether - The Community Centre, Paris, France

2021

Closet to Quarantine - Queer Art Then and Now, Childs Gallery, Boston, USA

Boys! Boys! Boys!, Fahey/Klein, Los Angeles, USA

2020
Discerning Eye 2020 - online

Piecing It Together: Modern and Contemporary Collage, Childs Gallery/Artsy - online

Photo LA with The Little Black Gallery - online

Queer Art Then And Now, Childs Gallery/Artsy - online

2019
Out-Spoken: 50 Years of Pride, Childs Gallery, Boston, USA

50JPG - osmoscosmos, Centre de la Photographie, Geneva, Switzerland

The Body Is The Instrument, TOM House, Los Angeles, USA
Circus of Books, FIERMAN, New York, USA
Boys! Boys! Boys!, The Ravestijn Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Adults Only, Gallery Biesenbach, Cologne, Germany

2018
The Violators, Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York, USA
Secret Gay Box, Tom of Finland Foundation, Los Angeles, USA
Boys! Boys! Boys!, The Hospital Club, London, UK
My Gay Eye, Gallery Ballery, Berlin, Germany,
What If Utopia – Queer Biennial 2018, various locations, Los Angeles, USA

Tom House, MOCAD, Detroit, USA

2017
Baño de Oro, Mexico City, Mexico HE, Last Projects, Los Angeles, USA

2016
Human Condition, former Los Angeles Metropolitan Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA Yooth: Loss And Found - Queer Biennial 2016, various locations, Los Angeles, USA

2015
Art on Paper, Pier 36, New York, USA

2014
Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, USA
Remove Clothes, Piasa, Paris, France
Porn This Way, Schwule Museum, Berlin, Germany Tom of Finland Art Fair, TOM House, Los Angeles, USA

2013
MAN, In the Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2011
In My Blue, Blue, Blue Jeans, Kontor Projects, Copenhagen, Denmark RATEDaRT, Ono Contemporenea, Bologna, Italy
PH10, Wallrod, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2010
HUNG, The Horse Hospital, London, UK
Boy BANG Boy, East Gallery, London, UK
Rough and Dandy, 10 Gales, London, UK
This Time, Guildford Lane Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2009
Instant, Robert Goff Gallery, NYC, USA
Art Trunk Show, Griffith Park, Los Angeles, USA
Born To Be Punk, Gallery Deappen, Basel, Switzerland Art Trunk Show, Room 2515, Boston, USA

2008
Berliner Kunstsalon, Humboldt, Berlin, Germany
Vienna Biennale, K’haus, Vienna, Italy
Quali Corpi Quale Carne, Rialtosantambrogio, Rome, Italy

Bloc Billboard, Bloc Studios, Sheffield, UK Cumfaces, Café Miesje, Krakow, Poland

Curatorial Projects

2019
The Body Is The Instrument, TOM House, Los Angeles, USA (forthcoming)

2018
What If Utopia – Queer Biennial 2018, various locations, Los Angeles, USA (co-curator – moving image)

2016
Yooth: Loss And Found - Queer Biennial 2016, various locations, Los Angeles, USA (co-curator – moving image)

2011
CUM, VZ Gallery, London, UK

2010
HUNG @ The Horse Hospital, London, UK
Boy BANG Boy, East Gallery, London, UK (co-curated)

Films (as writer unless otherwise stated)

2023
Antinous (forthcoming)

2015
XVWE (short, as writer and co-producer)

2003
What If... (short, as writer and co-producer)

Fade Out (short)

Screenings

2016
TWIST: Seattle Queer Film Festival, Seattle, USA

2013
Straight to Hell, Fringe Film Festival, London, UK

2010
White Night, Lighthouse, Brighton, UK
Festival of In(appropriation), Los Angeles Film Forum, LA, USA

2009
OTK Discipline!, Starr Space, New York, USA
24 Hour Day Off, Envoy Gallery, New York, USA

2008
5 Porn Film Festival, Berlin Germany

Kaleidoscope, Madrid, Spain
The Bigger Screen Picture Project, Sheffield, UK

Publications

2022
The Making of Adlocutio (Sean Ford), artists book, edition of 250

2021
The best way to learn a foreign language is in bed, published by MenOnPaper Art

2020
Polaroid Collages, artista book, edition of 150

2019
Circus of Books, Billy Miller, USA

2018
My Gay Eye - Tom of Finland special, Konkursbuchverlag Claudia Gehrke, Germany

2017
Polaroids, artista book, edition of 150

2015
1421 Laveta Terrace, Edward Cella, USA

2014
Brent, artists book, edition of 150

2012
Cumfaces, artists book, edition of 250

2011
Stuart Sandford, artists book, edition of 1000

2010
Untitled, artists book, edition of 250

2009
BUTT 2010 Calendar, Bruill, Netherlands
My Gay Eye 6, Konkursbuchverlag Claudia Gehrke, Germany Luc, artist book, edition of 150
Smut Vol. 2, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, USA

2007
Cumfaces, artists book, edition 150
Smut, Twin Palms Publishing, New York, USA

Awards And Residencies

2014

Tom of Finland Foundation, Los Angeles, USA

2007
Grants for the arts award, Arts Council England

Studio DSPS residency, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2006
Grants for the arts award, Arts Council England