Solo Exhibitions
2026
Paths You Walk, The New Art Gallery Walsall (March–July)
2025
Endz of the World, Coded Furnaces, Wolverhampton Art Gallery (June–September)
2022
[Traveller, Your Footprints], New Art Exchange, Nottingham (September–January 2023)
2022
The Exiles, The New Art Gallery Walsall (November–February 2023)
Selected Group Exhibitions & Screenings
2026
Lumbu, Genesis Theatre, Small Eyes Big Worlds (February)
2025
20/20 Group Exhibition, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
2025
20/20: Futures Group Exhibition, LCF, Stratford, East London
2025
Community Networks Aotearoa, group anniversary exhibition
2025
Endz of the World, artist film screenings, Chelsea Space, Chelsea College of Arts, London
2025
Common Ground Exhibition, Wilson Art Gallery, Cheltenham
2024
Earth Photo tour, Lost Gardens of Heligan, Cornwall
2023
Earth Photo, Lishui International Photography Festival, China
2023
Earth Photo tour, Sidney Nolan Trust, Herefordshire
2023
Earth Photo, Royal Geographic Society, London
2023
RBSA Photography Exhibition, Birmingham. Winner, GMC Trust First Prize
2021
Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Cathedral
2019
Kaleidoscope: Immigration & Modern Britain, Somerset House, London
2019
Group Exhibition, Space Studios, Mare Street, London
2018
Blast! Festival, Sandwell
2017
Here There and Everywhere, Art India, Mumbai & NAE, Nottingham
2016
Flatpack 9, Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham
2014
Black Country Tales, Flatpack 6, Custard Factory
2014
Black Country Echoes Festival, Wolverhampton
2013
Fathers and Sons, International Documentary Festival, Zagreb
2011
London Indian Film Festival, BFI
2010
BFI Southbank Show, London
2007
Intercultural Exchange, Belfast
2006
Beauty Queen Premiere, Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham
Public Collections
Work held in twenty-four national public collections, including the Arts Council Collection (Dayshift, 2019; Year Zero: Black Country, 2014), the Contemporary Art Society (Seamstress and Furnacemen, placed at The New Art Gallery Walsall, 2022), Kettle's Yard, MIMA, The Hepworth Wakefield, The Box Plymouth, Compton Verney, Wolverhampton Art Gallery (I wake up and find myself in an excluded world, 2024), and the New Art Gallery Walsall.
Awards & Nominations
2024
Nominated to represent Great Britain at the Venice Biennale
2023
Derek Jarman Award nominee
2023
GMC Trust First Prize, RBSA Photography Exhibition (Dayshift & Seamstress)
2016
Derek Jarman Award nominee
Grierson Award nomination
Royal Television Society Award
Selected Press & Publications
2025
Ekow Eshun in Conversation with Billy Dosanjh, UAL 20/20
2023
Hammad Nasar, Billy Dosanjh and the Quest to Settle, New Art Exchange
2024
Take on Art (India), Dayshift featured. Article by Hammad Nasar
2023
ESPN, The Athletic Film Festival, Green Lions
2022
Melanie Kidd, exhibition catalogue text for [Traveller, Your Footprints], NAE
2019
Somerset House Studios, Kaleidoscope Q&A
2016
The Guardian, Sikhs of Smethwick review
2014
Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian, Britain's most racist election: Smethwick, 50 years on (context piece)
Grants & Funding
Arts Council England (4 direct awards), The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Sandwell Council, Creative Black Country, Birmingham Rep Theatre, New Art Exchange, UnLtd, BBC Films, BFI, FLAMIN / Film London, DAZN.