Charles Sandison

Charles Sandison was born in Scotland in 1969. He received his BA, with honors, in fine art photography from the Glascow School of Art in 1991. He received hi MFA in 1993, also from Glasgow School of Art, where he was a lecturing assistant until 1995, when he accepted the position of Lecturer at the Tampere School of Art and Media in Finland. From 1997 to 2001 Sandison was Head of Fine Art at the Tampere School of Art and Media. He currently lives and worked in Tampere, Finland.

Sandison began exhibiting his work in 1992, and received his first solo exhibition in 2002. Since that time he has participated in numerous international exhibitions including the 6th Shanghai Beinnale in 2006, Performa07: A Visual Art Performance Biennial in New York City, 2007, Le Grade Tour at the Villa Medici, Rome in 2008, and Blood on Paper at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, also in 2008. Sandison has had solo exhibitions at venues throughout Europe, including the Grand Palais and the Musee d’Orsay, Paris in 2008. Sandison’s work is held in the public collections of the Kiasma-Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland, and the MUDAM-Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg. He is represented by Arndt & Partner in Berlin.