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Raqib Shaw
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Born in Kolkata in 1974, Raqib Shaw studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, where he first acquired a Bachelor’s degree (Honours) in Fine Art in 2001, and then a Master’s degree in the same in 2002.
Steeped in multiculturalism and influenced by a varied number of sources, Raqib Shaw’s body of art is at once recognizable and alien. Drawing from a wide range of mythological, literary, scientific and...
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Born in Kolkata in 1974, Raqib Shaw studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, where he first acquired a Bachelor’s degree (Honours) in Fine Art in 2001, and then a Master’s degree in the same in 2002.
Steeped in multiculturalism and influenced by a varied number of sources, Raqib Shaw’s body of art is at once recognizable and alien. Drawing from a wide range of mythological, literary, scientific and cultural references, Shaw’s art oscillates between ornamentation and profundity with surprising fluidity. Starkly post-modern, Shaw’s works are stylistically and materially unique, constantly challenging the limits of form and texture.
“Shaw’s highly worked surfaces vividly display the tension between flatness and volume. His painted objects are enamelled and gilded, and assume an almost sculptural presence as they precariously rise above the surface of the painting, only to be eventually re-absorbed into the flat picture plane. As the object’s volume vaporizes or dissolves into the two-dimensional plane, the painting’s aesthetic value achieves a more formal presence. Shaw propels the surface of his painting into new decorative dimensions and figurative heights – gold infills, diamond dust, enameled objects, the mangled memories of masterworks – while he explores the obscure depths of a personal mythology of life’s exigent and extreme experiences: sexual violence, ritual death, unrelieved anxiety, unbearable beauty” (Homi K. Bhabha, “An Art of Exquisite Anxiety”, Raqib Shaw, Absence of God, White Cube, London, and Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, exhibition catalogue, 2009).
‘Garden of Earthly Delights’, Shaw’s first solo exhibition, showed at Victoria Miro Gallery, London, in 2004, Deitch Projects, New York, in 2005, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, in 2006. His other solo shows include ‘Art Now: Raqib Shaw’ at the Tate Britain, London, in 2006; ‘Raqib Shaw’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 2008; and ‘Absence of God’ at White Cube Hoxton, London, and Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, in 2009.
Raqib Shaw lives and works in London.
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Born
1974
Kolkata, India
Education
2002 Master of Fine Arts, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London
2001 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011 'Paradise Lost', White Cube,...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011 'Paradise Lost', White Cube, London
2009 ‘Absence of God’, Karlsplatz Project Space, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
2009 ‘Absence of God’, White Cube Hoxton, London
2008 ‘Raqib Shaw’, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2006 ‘Garden of Earthly Delights’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
2006 ‘Art Now: Raqib Shaw’, Tate Britain, London
2005 ‘Garden of Earthly Delights’, Deitch Projects, New York
2004 ‘Garden of Earthly Delights’, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 'EAST EX EAST', Brand New Gallery, Milan
2009 ‘The Power of Ornament’, Belvedere (Orangery, Lower Belvedere), Vienna
2007 ‘Panic Room – Works from The Dakis Joannous Collection’, Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens
2006 ‘Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking’, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
2006 ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
2006 ‘Passion for Paint’, The National Gallery, London
2006 ‘Passion for Paint’, Bristol City and Art Gallery, Avon
2006 ‘Passion for Paint’, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
2005 ‘Expanded Painting’, Prague Biennale, Prague
2004 ‘Plantmania! Art and the World of Plants’, Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens
2003 ‘Nation and Nature; Vaster than Empires’, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
2003 ‘Nation and Nature; Vaster than Empires’, Worcester City Art Gallery
2003 ‘Nation and Nature; Vaster than Empires’, The Yard Gallery, Nottingham
2003 ‘Nation and Nature; Vaster than Empires’, Lethaby Gallery, London
2002 ‘Direction 2002’, The London Institute Gallery, London
2002 ‘Chancellor’s Forum’, London College of Fashion, London
2001 ‘Future Map 2001’, Lethaby Gallery, London
Participations
2012-13 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT7), Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
2012 'Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past', Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
2011 'Time Unfolded', Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi
2009-10 'Taswir: Pictorial Mappings of Islam and Modernity', Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
2006 ‘6th Gwangju Biennale’, Gwangju, South Korea
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