Lou Lou Sainsbury (b. 1994; London) is an artist based in Rotterdam & London, working across moving image, live-performance, poetry, drawing, sculpture and textiles. Sainsbury’s work seeks to tell stories exploring histories of resistance, transformation and entanglement. With collaboration at the core of her practice, rituals and invocations, collective study, domestic intervention, adaptation, songwriting and make-shift mutations make up some of her idiosyncratic research methods. Making connections between spirituality, medicalisation, colonialism and technology, her tricksterish work attempts to excavate a historical and imagined past of queer and trans life within the brokenness of human and more-than-human worlds.

Her recent solo exhibitions include Ehrlich Steinberg, Los Angeles; Roodkapje, Rotterdam; Gasworks, London & Humber Street Gallery, Hull. She has presented in group exhibitions and festivals including Herald St, London; Rencontres Internationales, Paris; International Film Festival Rotterdam; Tate Modern, London; Nottingham Contemporary and La Casa Encendida. Sainsbury has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including Mondriaan Fonds in 2023 & 2025 and Freelands Gasworks Partnership Programme in 2021. She was an artist in residence at EKWC, Oisterwijk in 2024. Sainsbury received her MA from the Dutch Art Institute in 2021 and previously was an associate artist at Open School East in 2017. She is currently an associate artist of Conditions Studio Programme in Croydon.

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