Sahara Longe (b. 1994, London, UK) is a British artist who lives and works in London. Vibrantly coloured and often large in scale, Longe's soft, flat-edged portraits focus on the mysteries of human psychology in social interactions. Longe was classically trained in a Florentine studio under a tradition of portrait painters dating back to John Singer Sargent. There, Longe learned to create the glazes and raw pigments modelled on lost Old Master painting methods that she continues to use today.
Selected solo exhibitions include the forthcoming New Shapes, Timothy Taylor, London (2023) and Deli Gallery, New York (2022). Longe has been included in institutional group exhibitions including The Whitechapel Gallery, London (2022); York Art Museum (2022); Palazzo Monti, Brescia (2021). Longe's work is in significant private and public collections worldwide including the York Art Gallery, UK; The FLAG Art Foundation, NY; and the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection.
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| 1994 | Born in London, UK |
| 2014 | Begins studying Fine Art at Charles H. Cecil Studios |
| 2018 | Receives the Charles H. Cecil Scholarship |
| 2023 | Sahara Longe, Timothy Taylor, London, UK (forthcoming) |
| 2022 | Sahara Longe, Frieze Art Fair, London, UK |
| Sahara Longe, Deli Gallery, New York, USA | |
| 2021 | Sahara Longe: The Fall of Man, Ed Cross Fine Art, 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London, UK |
| Madeleine Bialke, M. Florine Démosthène, Sahara Longe, Nadia Waheed, Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY | |
| 2022 | Annual Art Icon Auction, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK |
| Upon a Time, curated by Edoardo Monti, Eduardo Secci, Florence, Italy | |
| Beyond Bloomsbury: Life, Love and Legacy, York Art Gallery, York, UK | |
| 2021 | Timothy Taylor, Art Basel Miami, Miami Beach, FL, USA |
| Bold Black British, curated by Aindrea Emelife, Christie's, London, UK | |
| Timothy Taylor, West Bund Art Fair, Shanghai, China | |
| IRL (In Real Life), Timothy Taylor, London, UK | |
| Ed Cross Fine Art, Art X Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria | |
| The Great Women Artists, Palazzo Monti Residency, Brescia, Italy | |
| (Online Exhibition) Her Dark Materials, The Eye Of The Huntress, London, UK | |
| Heart of the Matter, Gillian Jason Gallery, London, UK | |
| Get a Load of This!, Daniel Raphael Gallery, London, UK | |
| 2019 | Young Artist Partnership Show, London, UK |
| The Bunker Artspace – Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, West Palm Beach, FL |
| The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY |
| The Hannah Rothschild Collection |
| The Josef Vascovitz Collection |
| The Lisa Goodman Collection |
| The Simon Nixon Collection |
| York Art Gallery, York, UK |
| The Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK |
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