Mh Sarkis

MH Sarkis is a Lebanese artist based in London who grew up in Lagos, Nigeria. She is inspired by science fiction narratives and emerging environmental crises.

With previous experience and focus on painting, Sarkis’s current mediums include textiles, CGI, and film.

Sarkis completed the Goldsmiths MFA Fine Art programme at the University of London and her work has featured in a number of Shape Arts exhibitions, on the Saatchi Art Platform and in the Arab Women Artists Now Festival. Recent exhibitions include 2068 at SPACE in Hackney and London Grads Now at the Saatchi Gallery. Sarkis was shortlisted for the 2022 Lumen Prize and was a winner of Arebyte’s Open Screen 2022 and the Almacantar Award 2021-2022. She is a recipient of Arts Council England’s Developing Your Creative Practice award.

2021 MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, London, UK (Distinction)
2012 BA(Hons) Creative Arts & Communications, with Art History, Richmond University, London, UK
First Class (1:1)
-Award for Outstanding Graduate
-Dean’s List Award – recognition for academic excellence
-Annual scholarship

2009 University Preparatory Certificate for the Humanities, UCL, London, UK
-Distinction in all modules

SELECTED SOLO SHOWS/DISPLAYS:

2023 Votive for the Next Earth - Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, U.K.

2015 MH Sarkis: Back on the Island - Quintessence, Lagos, Nigeria

2015 Kentish Town After Hours - Free Space Gallery, London, UK

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2021-2022 London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, London, U.K.

2018 2068, SPACE, London, UK

2018 Crossings (3/3) Touching Alterity: A Latent Anatomy, 310 New Cross Road, London, UK

2018 Shape Open, Art Pavilion, London, UK

2017 Tse Tse Fly Middle East, Iklectik, London, UK

2017 Society & Culture, The Black & White Building, London, UK

2016 Art Rooms, Melía White House, London, UK

2016 At Home in Gaza and London – a public sharing of collaborative internet art performance; Watermans Art Centre, London, UK / Al Mishal Theatre, Gaza, Palestine

2015 Pu55y Whipped – Women's Day, Liverpool, UK

2014 An Unexpected View of Africa, Breidenbach Studios, Heidelburg, Germany

2014 Don’t We Belong Here? (organised by Oxford University’s Migration Studies Society), Oxford, UK

2013 World Mental Health Day (H&F Mind), Connections, London, UK

2013 EQUATIONS Live Event + Film Festival, Kingsgate Workshops Trust, London, UK

2012 Roy’s Salon Tea Party, Commune Café, London, UK

2011 East...