1974 Born in Calcutta, India

Lives and works in London

 

Education

2001-2002 MA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London

1998-2001 BA (Honors) Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London

 

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

2015

New Sculptures, Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg

New Sculptures, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

2013

Raqib Shaw, Rudolfinium, Prague

Raqib Shaw, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester

2012

‘Of Beasts and Super-Beasts’ Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

2011

'Paradise Lost', White Cube, London

2009

‘Absence of God’, Karlsplatz Project Space, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien

‘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

‘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

 

 

Group Exhibitions

 

2012

7th Asia Pacific Triennal, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

‘Summer Exhibition’, Royal Academy, London

'The Best of Times, The Worst of Times. Rebirth and Apocalypse in Contemporary Art', 1st Kiev Biennale Arsenale

‘Phantoms of Asia’ Asian Art Museum, San Francisco

2011

‘Asian Contemporary Art from Private Collections’, Singapore Art Museum 

‘A Dream of Eternity’, Villa Empain, Brussels 

'Painting Between the Lines' CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco

'East ex East', Brand New Gallery, Milan

2010

'Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action', White Cube, London

'The Beauty of Distance: 17th Biennale of Sydney’, Sydney

2009

‘Nightmare Full of Unspeakable Things’, Concept V, New York

'Taswir: Pictorial Mappings of Islam & Modernity', Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin

‘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

‘6th Gwangju Biennale’, Gwangju, South Korea

‘Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking’, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

‘Around the World in Eighty Days’, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

‘Passion for Paint’, The National Gallery, London

‘Passion for Paint’, Bristol City and Art Gallery, Avon

‘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

‘Nation and Nature; Vaster than Empires’, Worcester City Art Gallery

‘Nation and Nature; Vaster than Empires’, The Yard Gallery, Nottingham

‘Nation and Nature; Vaster than Empires’, Lethaby Gallery, London

2002

‘Direction 2002’, The London Institute Gallery, London

‘Chancellor’s Forum’, London College of Fashion, London

2001

‘Future Map 2001’, Lethaby Gallery, London