25 January 2026
The Arts Council Collection has acquired two works by Billy Dosanjh: the large-scale photographic composite Dayshift (2019) and the archival film Year Zero: Black Country (2014). Dayshift , part of...
Read more23 December 2025
Many of you will have followed my 20/20 residency journey over the past couple of years, and I’m really pleased to share that it’s now reaching its final chapter. The journey concludes with a group...
Read more28 November 2025
The UAL 20/20 programme is a bold three-year initiative launched by UAL’s Decolonising Arts Institute in November 2021. It pairs 20 emerging or mid-career artists of colour with 20 UK public...
Read more11 August 2025
Some of my work from the 20/20 residency is currently on display at Wolverhampton Art Gallery, available until September 21, 2025. This informal showing includes sculpture, artist film, photopolymer...
Read more17 July 2025
I am deeply humbled and honoured to have been celebrated at the Contemporary Art Society’s Annual Acquisitions Dinner, held at the magnificent Dulwich Picture Gallery. The evening was truly...
Read more15 February 2025
I'm thrilled that two of my artworks have been selected for inclusion in the upcoming Common Ground exhibition at The Wilson in Cheltenham. Curated by painter and folklorist Ben Edge , the exhibition...
Read more12 August 2024
Reimagining Industrial Migratory Stories CIC (the CIC I set up a number of years ago) has been awarded a £100,000 grant by The National Lottery Heritage Fund to record stories and create three...
Read more25 June 2024
My team and I are thrilled to announce that our film, "Lumbu," will be showing at this year's London Indian Film Festival. Now in its 15th year, the festival is set across four UK locations - London,...
Read more17 April 2024
I'm excited to share an update about one of my most recent projects. We’ve completed our research and development phase for the project, supported by ACE & Arts & Heritage , who I am grateful...
Read more17 April 2024
A few weeks ago, I had a delightful morning at Thameside Studios with the artist and printmaker J. Yuen Ling Chiu to explore new techniques for making work as part of my 20/20 UAL residency at...
Read more1 March 2024
Hammad Nasar, Curator, writer, and Senior Research Fellow, recently wrote an article for Take on Art, India’s foremost Arts magazine. Hammad, who is Lahore-born and London-based, reflects from a...
Read more15 January 2024
Ian Francis of Flatpack asked kindly if I’d be willing to be a trustee of the mobile arts organisation he leads. It’s exciting to be involved in Birmingham’s film scene and to learn from Ian on how a...
Read more8 August 2023
Billy is pleased to announce that his photo Seamstress has been shortlisted for The Royal Photographic Society 165th edition of the International Photography Exhibition (IPE 165). The shortlist was...
Read more27 June 2023
Two of Billy’s pictures, The Bridge and Seamstress, have been selected for Earth Photo 2023, the international competition and exhibition that celebrates the power of visual storytelling about our...
Read more12 June 2023
PRESS RELEASE from UAL: Decolonising Arts Institute Twelve emerging and mid-career artists with an extensive range of practices have been selected as the second cohort of 20/20 : a national...
Read more31 May 2023
Hammad Nasar, co-curator (with Irene Aristizábal) of British Art Show 9 (2020–2022), lead curator of Turner Prize (2021), wrote a critical essay on Billy’s recent exhibition, [TRAVELLER, YOUR...
Read more17 March 2023
The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (RBSA) Photography Prize Exhibition is hosted biennially to celebrate photographic art. Featuring 100 works from over 70 artists, this exhibition showcases the...
Read more22 November 2022
Billy’s ambitious new body of photographic works pay tribute to those largely male migrant workers, especially those from the British colonies of South Asia, who came to The Black Country in the...
Read more15 November 2022
At the beginning of November I was invited by Melanie Kidd, Head of Exhibitions at the New Art Exchange in Nottingham, to talk about the last 10 years of my creative practise. The talk coincides with...
Read more28 September 2022
New exhibition at New Art Exchange Billy Dosanjh [Traveller, Your Footprints] 23 September 2022 – 7 January 2023 Billy Dosanjh is an artist, filmmaker and storyteller whose practice pays tribute to...
Read more12 September 2022
It’s been a busy couple of months for Billy and his team. They have been working towards the completion of two projects which will both be feature in his solo exhibition [TRAVELLER, YOUR FOOTPRINTS]....
Read more1 June 2022
This month our team photographed the remaining prompts in our fine art series Exiles, funded by The Arts Council, Multistory and The New Art Gallery Walsall. The work is now in post-production in...
Read more18 February 2022
These past few months have been a voyage in filmmaking, bringing the mid 90s in Sandwell to life with the movie Lumbu , funded by BFI ad BBC Films, and then journeying through Cameroon, to tell the...
Read more21 October 2021
Billy is thrilled to announce that he has taken up a post as part time Associate Lecturer teaching on an MA Screen Documentary programme at Goldsmiths University. Billy is looking forward to teaching...
Read more27 August 2021
Raucous Pictures are conducting a major search of the West Midlands area for two boys of South East Asian descent (i.e. Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi) to star as the lead in one of two short films...
Read more5 August 2021
"Film and TV archives only give us part of the picture. This is an opportunity to hear from two people who are adept at navigating these collections, and drawing out the untold stories which can fall...
Read more22 July 2021
Really pleased our art work “Dayshift” has been selected for the 2021 Wells Contemporary Art Exhibition . Open to artists working in painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, photography,...
Read more22 June 2021
Billy, alongside Professor Eve Ess from Ruskin School of Art, were recently given the opportunity to asses and critique work from some really inspiring artists all of whom are working in different...
Read more23 April 2021
This year’s Flatpack Festival is a ten-day virtual feast of film, performance and special events, accessible from anywhere in the world. There are numerous events available including live audiovisual...
Read more23 April 2021
On the 29th April at 1pm Billy is taking part in a masterclass run by FLAMIN & Film London's Equal Access Network: An Introduction to Artists Working with Film. Billy is joined by two other...
Read more30 January 2021
Black Country Touring are launching a free online film festival - "Let's Talk Film". There will be a series of 6 events throughout February and March where you can discover curated films by Black...
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