Roo Dhissou, b(1992)
Studio - Grand Union, Birmingham, UK
Solo Shows and Commissions
2024
Hospital Rooms - Sandwell CAHMS
2023
Courses for Dis-Course(s)—GLOAM, Sheffield
Courses for Dis-Course(s)—Primary, Nottingham
Khao peyo aish karo, but don’t hurt anyone’s heart—Eastside Projects, Birmingham
A voyage on water—Grain Projects, England and University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
2021
SHEDDING, SHIFTING, SLIPPING—The New Happiness, Birmingham
Equal Opportunities—Cheap Cheap Outside, Birmingham
Daaj—Asylum, Wolverhampton
2020
Aloo Paronteh—Recent Activity, Birmingham
Nangal Khera—Ikon Gallery (learning space), Birmingham
Group Exhibitions
2025
Inbetweeners—Galeria EL, Elbląg, Poland
2023
Concealed/ Reveal, with Curating for Change— Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
GET WELL SOON—Ormston House, Limerick, Ireland
Jaag Collective—Soho House, Birmingham
2022
explorers, zines and DIY culture with Hamja Ahsan— Tate Liverpool, UK
breathe, spirit and life 呼吸、靈魂與生命— Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
Conversations from Home with Gugan Gill—Vivid Projects, Birmingham - Postponed
Summer Show—Eastside Projects, Birmingham
Cotton: labour, land and body, showing work for Bharti Parmar—Crafts Council Gallery, London
Art Licks Launch, The Idea of a City—Recent Activity, Birmingham
Landedness in collaboration with BLK SWN Society & MADEYOULOOK, and documenta fifteen—Primary, Nottingham
Regenerative Neighbourhood Festival: Home & Heritage: Panjab—Civic Square, Birmingham
The Big Lunch—Civic Square, Birmingham
Our Joy— Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK
Art Track—Dudley, UK
(ASTRAL VILLAGE) slooooowwwww—ArtCore, Derby (duo show with Sahjan Kooner)
Best Seat in the House curated by Rankin—Oxo Gallery, London
Coventry Biennial, Hyper-possible—Coventry and Warwickshire
2021
Welcome to New Earth ( ARC_Artist Rehab Club, with Larissa Shaw)—Vivid Project with Black Hole Club, Birmingham
Best Seat in the House curated by Rankin—Oxo Gallery, London
Coventry Biennial, Hyper-possible—Coventry and Warwickshire
The Twenty Twenty Collection—The New Art Gallery Walsall, UK
Drawings and Research for Kadhi by Bharti Parmar, British Textiles Biennial— Blackburn Museum, Blackburn, UK
SAAC bazaar II—The Hive, Birmingham
SHOW UP—Allotment show, crated by Sofia Niazi, with Sahjan Kooner, Fred Hubble, Sarah Taylor-Silverwood, Aleesha Nandhra and Larissa Shaw
The Big Lunch—Civic Square, Birmingham
Revolution with melissandre varin—Arcadia, Coventry
Duo Show with Jan Agha—Niru Ratnam, London
DOOM, Black Hole Club—Vivid Peojects, Birmingham
Traces of Others: Collaboration with melissandre varin and Ryan Christopher—Arcadia Gallery, Coventry
Ikon for Artists—Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Speculating—Arcadia, Coventry
2020
AIS festival—Leicester, UK
Unavoidable—Birmingham School of Art, UK
Peep at Stryx—Stryx Gallery, Birmingham
2019
PLAY—Stryx Gallery, Birmingham
Pittu Garam—Stryx Gallery, Birmingham
Pittu Garam—Arhus, Denmark
SAAC Summer Show—Ward End, Birmingham
2014-2019
Gave up on art worked for Lidl—Glasgow, Birmingham, Wales, Manchester, London, UK
2014
I make therefore I am, BA Show—Birmingham School of Art
Awards and Residencies
2023
Jerwood Survey III Nomination
Arts Council England Project Grant Conviviality and Access Bursary for Courses for Dis-Course(s)
Grain Projects Residency/ Bursary Award: A Voyage on Water—Vancouver/ Surrey, BC, Canada
Government Arts Collection Nomination
2022
Residency with East Bristol Contemporary
AHRC UKRI - M4C Engagement Fund for Gramounce Food Cosmogonies and Expeditions Residency with Bursary
Food Hygiene and Mass Catering award Level III
BCU Post Graduate Research Development Award
2021
New Midland Group Collaborative Residency/ Bursary Award with Sahjan Kooner
JOYA Arte + Ecologia—Sierra Maria, Almeria, Spain
Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice Award
12ø Collective, Online Residency, #30works30days
DAAJ, Asylum Artists Quarter, Residency/Bursary Award—Wolverhampton
AHRC UKRI - M4C Doctoral Funding Award
2020
AIS Inaugural Award An Indian Summer Arts Festival
Tate Liverpool Artist Award
Storytelling with Roo, Stryx Gallery, Residency/Bursary
2019
Recipient of the Gertrude Aston Bowater Bequest Award
Permanent Collections
Arts Council Collection, UK
Surrey Art Gallery, Canada
New Art Gallery Walsall, UK
Publications and Texts
Commissioned text in response to Emii Alrai’s ‘The Courtship of Giants’
Nangal Pend-ing/DarkVillage.STL published by Primary, written by Sahjan Kooner and Roo Dhissou
A Very Special Place: Ikon in 1990’s
ArtLicks Issue 28 - The Idea of a City
PMC Notes by Paul Mellon Centre - Cold Comfort and Cultural Identity
Book Review: Movers and Makers: Uncertainty, Resilience and Migrant Creativity in Worlds of Flux
Present Work
Board Trustee, DASH Disability Arts, UK
Board Trustee, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
Previous Work
2022
Lecturer in Critical Theory and Contextual Studies, BA 2nd Year, Birmingham School of Art
2021
Studio and Research Assistant to Dr Bharti Parmar
Research Assistant, IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK - funded by the Paul Mellon Centre
Studio Teaching Assistant (MA), Birmingham School of Art, UK
2020
Information Assistant, IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2019
Various Managerial, Projects and Store Roles - Lidl GB
Contact
Email roodhissou@gmail.com
Twitter @roodhissou
Instagram @roodhissou