Dolores Sanchez Calvo

Dolores Sanchez Calvo

Dolores Sanchez Calvo is an artist living and working in London for the last decade. Her practice include a variety of media including photography, painting and installations. She was the recipient of the 2008 Westminster Photographic Award and her work was selected for the National Gallery Photographic Prize 2007.

The artist has exhibited across Europe and the UK and most recently she participated in Risk Management with Deej FAbyc, Daisy Delaney, Mark Quinn & Beat Streuli: Creekside 2011, selected by Phyllida Barlow; Open Wesminster 2010, selected by Gregor Muir (ICA) & Richard Wilson.

Her work operates within the politics of trauma & mourning. Decontextualising the original cause of trauma the artist depicts an iconography of man's alienation from himself, society and the environment that links with existentialism and raises questions on how the individual relates to his surroundings and the society he lives in.

Exhibitions

Awards, Grants
Premios Focus-Abengoa 2009, Finalist, 2009
Westminster Arts Photographic Award, 2008
Truro Health Park Commission (Runner-Up), 2008
National Portrait Gallery "Photographic Portrait 2007" Finalist, 2007

Solo Exhibitions
2010, Model Britain, Brompton Hospital, London, UK
2009, The Anzac Center, Harefield Hospital, London, UK
2009, "I am sitting beside me" Curzon Cinema (WAPhoto Award), London, UK
2005, "Model Britain" Dorchester Art Festival, Dorchester, Dorset, UK

Group Exhibitions
2012
Magma, The Rag Factory, London
The book of Invisible Bridges, collaborative project (book + dvd) based on texts by Xelis de Toro
2011
Risk Management, Elastic Residence, with Deej Fabyc, Daisy Delaney, Mark Quinn & Beat Streuli
Chainletter, online project curated by Eric Wright & Cathy Ward
Parallax AF, curated by Gayane Umrova & Chris Barlow, La Galleria, London 
Bow Arts Open Studios 2011
APT creekside 2011, selected by Phyllida Barlow, APT Gallery, Deptford
Westminster City Hall, London
2010
Melt Art Fair , Mile End Art Pavilion, London UK 
Westminster Open, SW1 Gallery, Victoria, selected by Gregor Muir, Richard Wilson and Lisa Milroy
10 artists, Lauderdale House, London
Sold Out, Elastic Residence Gallery, London, UK
Bow Arts Studio Open - London, UK
The Summer Show, The Royal Courts, London, UK
Suspended , House Gallery - London, UK
Premios Focus-Abengoa 2009, Fundacion Focus Abengoa, Hospital de los Venerables, Sevilla, Spain
2009
Open Westminster, SW1 Gallery, London,
selected by Prof Joanna Woodall, Courtauld Institute of Art, Robert Gordon, Curator Subway Gallery, Suzanne Cotter, Modern Art Oxford, Bridget Crowley, Writer Wallace Collection&Tate Britain
Inter, Photomonth 2009, Jago Gallery, London
Bow Arts Open Studios, London
2008
Kisss, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, Uk (Archive)
NPG "Photographic Portrait Prize 2007", The Lowry Center, Manchester, Uk/
Sheffield Art Gallery,
Bow arts Open Studios, London, Uk
QuatroxQuatro, Vernice Art Fair, Forli, Italy
Forensics, Leroy Studio, London, Uk
2007
Photographic Portrait Prize 2007, National Portrait Gallery
Instituto Cervantes (Spanish Institute), London, Uk
Esquilos Lejanos, Tablas, Centro De Historia De Zaragoza, Spain
2006
For Better And For Worse. St-Johns Wood, London, Uk
Arcadia, London Biennale, Orleans House, Twickenham, Richmond, Uk
Check-In, Cartblanche, Stu-Dio Ra Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy
Human Awareness, Synergie Gallerie, London Uk
The London Architecture Art And Design Show, British Library, London, Uk
Conical Gallery, Melbourne, Australia/Kisss (Http://Www.Elastic.Org.Uk/Kisss)
Bienal De Fotografía, Tenerife, Spain
6 Easysteps, Ica, London, Uk
Kisss - Interactive Performance, Whitechapel Gallery, London, Uk
2004
London Biennale, “Arrows”, The Foundry, London, Uk
Precipitations, LB, Kufa’s Galery, London, Uk
London Biennale, “Ecm2”, The Institute Of Physics, London, Uk
"Le Zèle Du Dézir", Festival Européen D’arts Vivants, Clos Cacao, Bruxelles, Belgium
2003
Dusk, Giorgio De Chirico Art Centre, Volos, Greece.
Parko Eleftherias, Athenes, Greece.
Bienal De Fotografía, Tenerife, Spain. (Catalogue)
Dusk, Artb.Gaidro, Mayfield Community Arts Centre, Cork, Irlande.
2002
Dusk, Artb.Gaidaro, Espace Slouchhat, Bruxelles, Belgium.
La Science De L’art, Centre Culturel Jacques Franck, Bruxelles, Belgium,
2001
Lauderdale House. Highgate Hill, Waterloo Park, London, UK
1998
Westminster Arts Anual Open Exhibition, London, UK
1997
"out", The Crescent, Scalborough, North Yorkshire, UK
"Novas Visaõs" Instituto de Juventude, Faro, Portugal
"Fotografos convidados"Primavera Fotográfica, Faro e Loulé, Portugal.
Hedendaagse Fotografie, Gas Fabriek, Amsterdam, Holland

Curated events
2010 Melt Art Fair, Mile End Pavilion, London
2009 The seduction of places, Jago Gallery, London, UK
2008 ILY (I love you) Blog online project