Sue Arrowsmith was born in Lancashire, England in 1950. She lived and worked in London and in Hull, England, where she died in 2014.

Education

1968-71	Studied at the University of Nottingham, UK.
1973-75	Studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, London.

Exhibitions

1970	Wall Show Group Exhibition, Lisson Gallery, London.
1982	Sue Arrowsmith Beside Myself, Matt’s Gallery, Martello Street (12–18 July 1982).
1983	She Perceiving Her, Sue Arrowsmith in Conversation with Anne Bean.
1985	Sue Arrowsmith: Egg of Night, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (6 Sept-4 Oct).
	Sue Arrowsmith, Solo Exhibition Serpentine Gallery, London (28 Oct-17 Nov).
1986	New Art, Mixed Exhibition, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London.
1986-87	Artist in Residence at Wolfson College and at Kettle’s Yard Gallery in Cambridge.
1987	Sue Arrowsmith: Qualities of Silence, Kettles Yard, Cambridge.
	Sue Arrowsmith/, Solo Exhibition Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London.
1989	Group Show, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London.
1989	Photography Now, Tate Liverpool and the Victoria and Albert Museum London.
1991	Shocks to the System: Social and political issues in recent British art from the Arts Council Collection, Ikon Gallery, UK.
1991	Group Show, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London.
1998	Excavations, Sue Arrowsmith, Amanda Faulkner, Kate Whiteford, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton 1998.
2000	Live in Your Head, Whitechapel Gallery, London.
2014	Exciting As We Can Make It: Ikon in the 1980s, Ikon Gallery, UK.
2016	Conceptual Art in Britain 1964-1979, Tate Britain, (12 April–29 August).
2023	Paris Photo, with England & Co.
2024	Photo London, with England & Co.

Collections

Arts Council Collection; Tate; Victoria and Albert Museum.

Publications

Egg of Night by Sue Arrowsmith, published by Ikon Gallery 1985.

Sue Arrowsmith: Qualities of Silence, Robert Radford. Published by Kettle’s Yard Gallery 1987.

Excavations, Sue Arrowsmith, Amanda Faulkner, Kate Whiteford, published by John Hansard Gallery,Southampton 1998.