Steve Sabella

Steve Sabella is a Berlin-based international artist and author of the award-winning memoir, The Parachute Paradox, published by Kerber Verlag (September 2016) that tackles the colonization of the imagination. The book won the 2017 Eric Hoffer Award and the 2016 Nautilus Book Awards, both for best memoir.

In 2008, Sabella also received the Ellen Auerbach Award from the Akademie der Künste (ADK) in Berlin, leading to the publication of his first comprehensive monograph Steve Sabella Photography 1997–2014. The esteemed Hatje Cantz Verlag published the monograph in collaboration with the ADK, Berlin (2014), with texts by Hubertus von Amelunxen, president of the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, and a foreword by the known artist and art historian Kamal Boullata.

Sabella received a BA in Visual Studies from the State University of New York in 2007. Through a Chevening Scholarship, he earned an MA in Photographic Studies at the University of Westminster, London, graduating in 2008 with a Caparo Award of Distinction. In 2009, through a Saïd Foundation Scholarship, he earned his second MA in Art Business at Sotheby's Institute of Art, London.

Sabella has published numerous essays on the art world and is currently preparing to publish his book The Artist's Curse, a series of epigrams, micro-narratives, tips and concise analyses of the art world as it looked till 2020. And coming to light soon is the artist's book, The Secrets of Life. Through his art and writing, Sabella works beyond narratives of exile, transcending culture and nationality, and advocating for global citizenship.

Sabella's work is held in the British Museum collection in London, The Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, and the Arab World Institute in Paris, among other museums and prominent private collections.

Sabella has been the subject of several documentaries, including In the Darkroom with Steve Sabella (2014), screened internationally. In 2017, Sabella was the recipient of the AFAC grant for his new photo project Palestine—UNSETTLED.

Sabella's solo exhibitions include a major retrospective, at the International Center for Photography Scavi Scaligeri, Verona, (2014)—with a book with the same title published by Maretti Editore, Archaeology of the Future.

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