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Sharjah Art Foundation announces the 2012 Production Programme Open Call for submissions from artists working in a range of media. In this application cycle, up to $200,000 is available for the funding of new work.

Sharjah Art Foundation (SAF) announces the selection of Yuko Hasegawa as the Curator of Sharjah Biennial 11, opening March 2013. Yuko Hasegawa is Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (MOT), and is a seasoned director, curator, and advisor for international biennials.

Sharjah Art Foundation announces Open Call for Proposals to present and speak at March Meeting 2012: Working with Artists and Audiences on Commissions and Residencies.

Open Call announced for speakers at the March Meeting in Sharjah.

To Premiere in the U.S. on November 5, 2011, for One Night Only, as a Commission of the Internationally Acclaimed New York Biennial, Performa 11.

The Sharjah Art Foundation announces recipients of the 2011 Sharjah Biennial Prize as the 10th edition of the Sharjah Biennial, Plot for a Biennial, continues with eight weeks of cutting-edge exhibitions, film, performance, music and publications, March 16 – May 16, 2011.

Sharjah Biennial 10: Plot for a Biennial presents major new work across disciplines of Visual Arts, Film, Music, Performance and Publications over the course of the Biennial’s eight week run. The 10th edition of the Sharjah Biennial is curated by Suzanne Cotter and Rasha Salti, in association with Haig Aivazian, and is organized by the Sharjah Art Foundation.

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, acclaimed internationally for their large-scale conceptual installation art projects that address socio-political issues of our time, will travel their site-specific 'Boat of Tolerance' to Sharjah.

The Sharjah Art Foundation announces the fourth annual March Meeting, a three-day symposium featuring presentations by 42 institutions, artists and art professionals on artistic practice and production in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia (MENASA) region and beyond, to take place in Sharjah from March 13 to March 15, 2011.

Marking its 10th Anniversary, the Sharjah Biennial is undertaking the most ambitious programme to date with more artists participating and creating new work, commissioned films, music, performance, talks and publications.

The Sharjah Art Foundation announces the presentation of work by 119 artists and participants from 36 countries across the globe to partake in Plot for a Biennial, the 10th edition of the acclaimed Sharjah Biennial, March 16 through May 16, 2011.

The Sharjah Art Foundation announces the recipients of its 2010 Production Programme Grants, with funds totalling up to $300,000 to be awarded in the support of arts and culture and the realisation of proposed projects.

Sharjah Art Foundation Director Jack Persekian and Sharjah Biennial 10 Curator Suzanne Cotter, Curator, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Project, will speak on a panel moderated by writer Shumon Basar during the Frieze Art Fair.

The Sharjah Art Foundation Production Programme is pleased to announce the 2010 Open Call for Submissions. This funding cycle will offer three artists grants of up to $100,000 for the realisation of individual projects.

The Sharjah Art Foundation announces the appointment of Suzanne Cotter and Rasha Salti as joint curators of the 10th edition of the Sharjah Biennial.