Solo Exhibitions
2019
Pickpocket Performance, Camberwell Space, London
2016
Manifesta 11, Pickpocket Performance Cabaret der Künstler – Zunfthaus Voltaire, Artists Guild, Zurich
Match, 38 metre Public Art Commission, Castlegate, Stockton-on Tees (until summer 2017)
2015
Art & Antiquities, Evidence Format Festival, Derby Museum & Art Gallery
2013-2014
Aim & Fire Durham Art Gallery & DLI Museum featuring Celestial Objects commissioned by Locus+ and NEPN
2011
Art & Antiquities Meessen De Clercq, Brussels
2010
Incident Control Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) Chicago*
2009
Explosions Meessen De Clercq, Brussels
Holding Fire Ffotogallery, Wales
2008
Incident Phoenix Gallery, Brighton
Fire Scene Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York
2007
Explosion Photographers Gallery print sales, London
2006
Sarah Pickering PynerContreras, Cultural Fair, Mexico
Explosion Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
Energy V&A Photography Galleries, London
Contours du Réel – Topographie De L’Art, Paris
2021
No Place is An Island, London Art Fair’s Photo50 Section
To The Edge of Time, KU University Library Galleries / Kunst Leuven*
In the Now: Gender and Nation in Europe, Selections from the Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Photography Collection, LACMA, USA*
2019
Flashes to Ashes – Fire in British Art, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol*
Study for Fiction Plane 1, curated installation by Julia Weist, Shed, New York
Rehearsing the Real, curated by Tom Lovelace, Peckham 24
Moving the Image, curated by Duncan Wooldridge,Camberwell Space
2018
Destruction in Art DIAS 2.0, Chisenhale Studios
2017
Something Fierce, Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, USA
SWAP Editions 1 : AD HOC, Castor Gallery, Deptford
2016
Manifesta 11, Historical Exhibition, What People Do For Money, Zurich*
Revelations: Experiments in Photography, National Media Museum, Bradford*
2015
Revelations: Experiments in Photography, Media Space, Science Museum, London*
Staging Disorder, London College of Communication Galleries, London*
Director’s Cut: Recent Photography Gifts to the NCMA, North Carolina Museum of Art, USA
2013
Living in the Ruins of the Twentieth Century, UTS Gallery, Sydney
The Flood Wall, Exp 12 Gallery, Berlin
2012
Hijacked III: Contemporary Photography from Australia and the United Kingdom. Touring Exhibition – QUAD, Derby, UK. PICA (Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts), Perth, Australia. Australian Centre of Photography, Sydney, Australia.*
An Orchestrated Vision – The Theater of Contemporary Art Photography, St Louis Art Museum, USA.
2011
Signs of A Struggle – Photography in the Wake of Postmdernism V&A Museum, London
La Vie Mode D’Emploi / Life A User’s Manual Meessen De Clercq Gallery, Brussels
History Painting Now Artsensus Gallery, London
Landscape Sublime North Carolina Museum of Art
Angry Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam*
2010
Women in Art Photography UK Taschen Store, London
Revealing Evidence Sarah Pickering & Shelly Goldsmith, PM Gallery and House, London
Locate Jerwood Space with Mel Brimfield & Aura Satz
Aktualizacja UK Photomonth in Krakow 2010, Poland
2009
Manmade: Notions of Landscape from the Lannan Collection New Mexico Museum of Art, USA
Manipulating Reality Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence*
vvork curated exhibit, Fotofestival Mannheim, Germany
Photography Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Theatres of the Real Fotomuseum, Antwerp*
2008
Rethinking Landscape Taubman Museum of Art, Virginia, USA
Fear Maison du Danemark, Paris
New Typologies New York 1st Photography Festival, curated by Martin Parr
In Our World. New Photography in Britain Galleria Civica de Modena, Italy*
Blown Away Krannert Art Museum, Illinois, USA
2007
Contemporary, Cool and Collected Mint Museum of Art, North Carolina, USA
How we Are: Photographing Britain Tate Britain*
The Big Picture North Carolina Museum of Art, USA
System Error Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy*
2006
Photo Paris Carrousel du Louvre with the Photographers Gallery
War Fare Chicago Museum of Contemporary Photography
The Universe in a Handkerchief Gallery Yujiro, London
Shifting Terrain Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
2005
Jerwood Photography Award touring Exhibition, UK
Sarah Pickering & Gonzalo Lebrija with PynerContreras, London
EAST International Norwich*
* Denotes Catalogue