grants / awards / residencies
2026
2025
Artist Award recipient - Henry Moore Foundation (UK)
2024
2023
CPH:DOX Intro:Dox (Copenhagen, DK)
2022
CPH:DOX BFI/Doc Society Delegation (Copenhagen, DK)
2021
Aesthetica Art Prize - longlist (UK)
2020
Trellis Commission - University College London (London, UK)
International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA): Best Children’s Documentary Award - Jury Special Mention (Amsterdam, NL)
Gasworks Residency (London, UK)
2019
Guardian/Joseph Rowntree Foundation Award - Doc/Fest (Sheffield, UK)
Constellations - UP Projects/Flat Time House (London, UK)
Finding Space commission - Institute of Physics (London, UK)
2018
Shortlisted: Border Crossings Award - Open City Documentary Festival (London, UK)
2017
Digital Artist Residency - Museum of Oxford/DaR (Oxford, UK)
London Creative Network - SPACE (London, UK)
2016
2015
Digital Artist Residency - Centenary - Ben Uri Gallery (London, UK)
Artists' film award - BFI/no.w.here/Wellcome Trust (London, UK)
Shortlisted: Depict! Award - Encounters Festival (Bristol, UK)
exhibitions / screenings
2025
2024
2023
2022
H Is For Hostile Environment, Rio Cinema, presented by Chisenhale Gallery (London, UK) - 11th May
2021
Aesthetica Short Film Festival (York, UK) - 5th November
Bloomsbury Festival (London, UK) - 21st October
Baltic Open (Gateshead, UK) - 6th January - 6th June
Aesthetica Future Now Symposium (York, UK) - 28th April - 3rd May
Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival (Thessaloniki, Greece) - March
London Short Film Festival (London, UK) - January
2020
Doing Your Homework, Eating Your Dinner, Drawing A Picture - Flat Time House (London, UK) - 18th January
2019
Art Night 2019 - Kings Cross, (London, UK) - 22nd June
Creekside Open curated by Sacha Craddock - APT Gallery (London, UK) - 15th June - 4th July
Creekside Open curated by Brian Griffiths - APT Gallery (London, UK) - 11th May - 2nd June
Finding Space - Institute of Physics (London, UK) - 30th April-17th May 2019
2018
Mubi/Sundance (moving image installation) - Sundance Film Festival (London, UK) - 30th May
Encounters/Depict! national cinema programme (Nationwide, UK) - 2018
WALK (playing with Divine Order) - Glasgow Film Theatre (Glasgow, UK) - 9th March
2017
The Xenophobia of Time? (group exhibition) - Clerkenwell Gallery (London, UK) - 30th May - 4th June
World Day 2017 - Journeys of Storytelling - P21 Gallery (London, UK) - 17th February
Channel 4 Random Acts - Flying/Falling - 4OD/Random Acts - 16th December 2016 - 15th Jan 2017
Out Of Chaos - Ben Uri Centenary Exhibition Tour - Laing Art Gallery (Newcastle, UK) - 1st November 2016 - 28th February 2017
2016
Random Acts S2 Episode6 - Channel 4 (UK broadcast) - 15th Dec
Ben Uri Past Present and Future - Christie's (London, UK) - 24th May - 7th June
Unexpected: Continuing Narratives of Identity and Migration - Ben Uri Gallery (London, UK) - 16th February - April 24th
2015
We Cannot Unsee (artists' film commission group show + Q&A) - King's College London (London, UK) - 16th December
Depict! Award - Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival - Watershed (Bristol, UK) - 19th September
We Cannot Unsee (artists' film commission group show + Q&A) - no.w.here (London, UK) - 24th September
We Cannot Unsee (artists' film commission group show + Q&A) - BFI (London, UK) - 20th May
A Musical Box (experimental film/music programme) - LSFF - ICA (London, UK)
London Stories (short film programme) - LSFF - Hackney Picturehouse (London, UK)
2014
BRASS Commission - Durham International Festival - Durham University Music School, Palace Green (Durham, UK)
Next Stop Byker (Public art installation commission) - Byker Metro Station (Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK) - January - June
2013
Surreal Worlds (short film programme) - LSFF - Curzon Soho (London, UK)
SERCO + Q&A - Migration Research Seminar - Sussex University (Brighton, UK) - 11th March 2013
SERCO - Oxford House (London, UK) - 15th - 30th April
2012
Alice In Bed (group show) - Culture Lab OffSite (Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK)
A New Film Aesthetic? (talk) - The Thought Menu - Limazulu (London, UK) - 28th July
curating / programming
2022
AiR Drop - remote artists residency programme (UK-wide) - January 2021 - April 2022
2021
Special Adviser (Art for Social Justice) - Independent Film Trust (UK wide) (ongoing)
2020
A Passage Through Passages (Brunei Gallery, SOAS) - 17 January - 21 March
2016
2015
New Worlds - Films About Global Youth Experiences - Deptford Cinema (London, UK) in collaboration with the Deptford Cinema programming group, BFI, Picturehouse Cinemas, BFI and Film London
2014
2013
2011
teaching
2021
South London Gallery - guest artist in association with New Contemporaries (London, UK) - March - May
2020
2019
2018
Filmmakers Roundtable - BFI Future Film Festival (London, UK) - 14th February
Lecture: Alternative cinema exhibition - De Montfort University (Leicester, UK) - 12th February
Random Acts mentoring - Channel 4/Screen South/Gulbenkian (London and Canterbury, UK) - January-February
2017
2016
2015
Masterclass: Moving Image for Artists - Bow Arts (London, UK) - 23rd September
The Cat On The Shoulder: Aaton LTR for Artists - no.w.here (London, UK) - 13th June
2013
publications
2016
2015
reviews and press
2021
26 Shining Light: Nikita Chadha – H is for Hostile Environment - a poetic response - Bloomsbury Festival - October
Trellis: Lines of Separation or Connection - Tom Jeffreys/UCL Culture - April
‘Trellis: Public Art’ is a programme of knowledge exchange between researchers and artists in the East End - FAD Magazine - 14th April
Trellis Festival - Artrabbit - 12th April
H is for Hostile Environment - openDemocracy - 15th April
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
Out of Chaos: Art that makes you think - Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums blog - 24th October
What To See: Out Of Chaos Review - Art Fund - 15th October
News: Out Of Chaos Review - NARC. Magazine - 11th October
Deptford Cinema profile - Evening Standard - 9th July
Young Blood: Edwin Mingard's Break Tells The Story Of A Generation With Smiling Depression - After Nyne Magazine March
2015
FRESH - New Talent: Edwin Mingard: Life Through My Lens - BBC 3 17th Feb
2014
2013
Networked Entrepreneurship - Interview with Edwin Mingard - European Alternatives - 12th August
Blurring the Personal and Professional to Create Social Purpose - Interview with Edwin Mingard - European Alternatives - 12th August