Born 1988, Cape Town, South Africa.
Lives and works in Chicago, IL, and Cape Town.
Education
2020 MFA Fine Arts
Department of Visual Arts, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US
2016 BA Fine Art (Hons)
The Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, ZA
Solo + Two-person Exhibitions
2025 ICE CREAM SOCIAL / goodbye tree house/ love u all, 2824 W Dickens Ave, Chicago, IL, US
2024 Garden Party with Bonnard’s Lemon, 1226 w 56th St, Chicago, IL, US
2022 Benjamin Harle & Gabrielle Sanson, Roommate (RADAR), Chicago, IL, US
2019 No Show, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago, IL, US
Group Exhibitions
2024 Samhain 1453 E 56th St Apt 2W, Chicago, IL, US
House Reading with Alyssa Perry, Jamie Thomson, Zan de Parry, Thomas Comerford, & Bonnard’s Lemon, 1385 W Hirsh St, Chicago, IL, US Thomas Huston: “Museum Studies or…” Book Launch, Inga Books, Chicago, IL, US Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot, with Bonnard's Lemon, Bedsheet Cinema, Chicago, IL, US Time is a Torrent, Patient Info, Chicago, IL, US House Reading with Katana Smith, Michael Stablein, Jr., Kayla Anderson, Ken Taylor, & Bonnard’s Lemon, 1385 W Hirsh St, Chicago, IL, US Fantasia, with Bonnard’s Lemon, Bedsheet Cinema, Chicago, IL, US Shir Ende, Clara Nizard, & Bonnard’s Lemon, The Lawn, Chicago, IL, US 2022 EXPO Chicago, with The University of Chicago, Department of Visual Arts, Chicago, IL, US 2020 NADA Chicago, with Apparatus Projects, Chicago, IL, US An epilogue, Apparatus Projects, Chicago, IL, US 2019 Direct Sunlight, LVL3, Chicago IL, US Borderline Tests, 2439 South Oakley Avenue, Chicago, IL, US 2018 Images of Displacement, District Six Museum Homecoming Centre, Cape Town, ZA 2017 A Painting Today, STEVENSON, Cape Town, ZA 2015 Collective Noun, The Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town, ZA Lunchbox, The Eye, Cape Town, ZA Stagiaire Experience 2024 Rochelle Canteen, London, UK Lyle's, London, UK Awards 2018 Division of The Humanities Tuition Scholarship (2018-2020), The University of Chicago, IL, US Scholarship for Postgraduate International Study (2018-2020), Oppenheimer Memorial Trust, ZA 2016 Judy Steinberg Painting Prize, University of Cape Town, ZA Teaching 2021 Visual Arts Teaching Fellowship ('21-'22), The Department of Visual Arts, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US Public Events 2022 Panel Discussion: Teaching in the Arts Symposium, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US Commissions 2019 Exhibition text, Tensions Unfold, for “Down Time: On the Art of Retreat”, SMART Museum, Chicago, IL, US Press Jad Dahshan, “Gabrielle Sanson on Tensions Unfold”, SMART Museum of Art, November 2019