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Copperfield is pleased to announce its representation of Miami based Jamilah Sabur (b. 1987, St. Andrew Parish, Jamaica).

Metaphysics, geology, and memory are recurrent themes in Sabur’s work, with a distinct and poetic interest in language and geography. A new planetary literacy emerges in her work, where alternate geopolitics become possible as submerged histories are revealed.
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Sabur’s work has been exhibited with the likes of Pérez Art Museum, Miami; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit. Sabur earned a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore (2009), and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego (2014). Her work is included in the permanent collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, Pérez Art Museum Miami and The Bass. Sabur will be included in the upcoming US Triennial Prospect 5 New Orleans.

Sabur’s recent solo exhibitions include Observations: Selected Works by Jamilah Sabur, curated by Taras Matla, University of Maryland Art Gallery (2020); Memory Palace, Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, St. Augustine (2019); Stream Gradient, Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami (2019); Un chemin escarpé / A steep path, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2019); Ibine Ela Acu/Water Sun Moon, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, FL (2018); The Rhetoric of the Living, Emerson Dorsch, Miami (2018); If defined, then undefine, Dimensions Variable, Miami (2017).

Her recent group exhibitions include The Willfulness of Objects, curated by Silvia Karman Cubiñá and Leilani Lynch, The Bass, Miami (2020); Time Share, Performa, New York (2020); Open Justice, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (2020); The Last Supper, Faena Art, Miami Beach (2019); The Other Side of Now, Pérez Art Museum, Miami (2019); Parallels and Peripheries, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit (2019); Deconstruction, Frost Art Museum, Miami (2018); Augmented sunrise beneath the skin, Gr_und, Berlin (2018); Études conviviales, SBC galerie d’art Contemporain, Montréal (2018); Between a view and a milestone, ArtCenter South Florida (2018); SCORCHED EARTH, Current Projects, Miami (2018); The World’s Game: Fútbol and Contemporary Art, Pérez Art Museum Miami (2018); Sunrise, Sunset, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami (2017); baby boy, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland (2017); MemoryLab, History Miami Museum (2017).

Recent performances and screenings include New Orleans Film Festival, US (2020); Beneath the rivers, there are no borders, Future of Demonstration, Vienna, Austria (2018); A derivation of time, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, FL (2018); Beneath the rivers, there are no borders, Little Haiti Cultural Center, Miami (2018); Black Radical Imagination in partnership with LUX Scotland, Glasgow School of Art (2017); Black Radical Imagination in partnership with LUX Scotland, ICA London (2017); Latinoamericano Cine Del Nuevo International Festival in Havana (2017); EXiS Festival, Busan Corner Theatre, Busan, Korea (2017); Black Radical Imagination, The Art Institute of Chicago (2017); Crater-Lab, Barcelona, Spain (2017); (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico, A Coruña,Galicia, Spain (2017); Los Angeles Film Forum, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian (2017); San Francisco Cinematheque/Crossroads Film Festival (2017).

Jamilah Sabur is currently included in The Willfulness of Objects, a selection of works from The Bass’ collection in Miami and will be included in our upcoming exhibition Here be Dragons, a Reprise in 2021.