Shezad Dawood

Shezad Dawood (born 1974) is an artist born and based in London.

Shezad Dawood 2014

Shezad Dawood works across the disciplines of painting, film, neon, sculpture, performance, virtual reality and other digital media to ask key questions of narrative, history and embodiment.[1] He uses collaboration and knowledge exchange, mapping across multiple audiences and communities. Through a fascination with the esoteric, otherness, the environment and architectures both material and virtual, Dawood interweaves stories, realities and symbolism to create richly layered artworks. These multi-media works are also inspired by his varied cultural heritage, having a Pakistani mother, an Indian father and an Irish stepmother.[2]

He trained at Central Saint Martin's and received his MA from the Royal College of Art in 2000 before undertaking a PhD from the School of Arts at Leeds Metropolitan University (now Leeds Beckett University) in 2008 (Fine Art), titled 'The killing of Chief Crazy Horse: a metaphorical allegory in 3 parts'. Dawood is a Research Fellow in Experimental Media at the University of Westminster.

Selected exhibitions

Selected Solo Exhibitions and Commissions

2022:

  • Coral Alchemy I & II, Commission for Desert X AlUla, SA

2021:

  • Concert From Bangladesh, commission for British Council Digital Collaboration Fund
  • Visions of Paradise, commission for The White House, Becontree, UK
  • Between Land & Sea, Fogo Island Arts, Canada

2020:

  • Encroachments, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK
  • Leviathan: Dreams of a future past, The RYDER, Madrid, Spain
  • Leviathan - The Paljassaare Chapter, Kai Art Center, Tallinn, Estonia
  • Nets, Timothy Taylor, London, UK

2019:

  • Leviathan, Kunstverein Munich, Germany
  • Leviathan, Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK
  • Leviathan, MOCA Toronto

2018:

  • Leviathan, A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  • Leviathan, The Atlantic Project and Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth, UK
  • Leviathan: On Narrative and Philosophical Systems, HE.RO, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
  • Leviathan: On Sunspots and Whales, Barakat Contemporary, Seoul
  • A Lost Future: Shezad Dawood, Rubin Museum, USA
  • Leviathan, MOSTYN, Wales, UK

2017:

  • Leviathan, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice

2016:

  • Kalimpong, Timothy Taylor, London, UK
  • Anarchitecture, Jane Lombard, New York, USA
  • Why Depend on Space and Time, Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey

2015:

  • The Room, Fig-2, ICA, London, UK
  • Towards The Possible Film, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK
  • It was a time that was a time, Pioneer Works, New York City, USA

2014:

  • Towards The Possible Film, Parasol Unit, London, UK
  • Towards The Possible Film, Leeds Art Gallery, UK
  • Anthropology of Chance, OCAT Xi’an, China
  • Sadler’s Wells & Tate Visual Art Commission, 2014, Sadler’s Wells London, UK

2013:

  • Wolf Panel, Paradise Row, London, UK
  • Piercing Brightness, KINOKINO, Sandnes, Norway
  • Trailer, Art in General, New York, USA

2012:

  • Piercing Brightness, Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange, Penzance, Cornwall, UK
  • Piercing Brightness, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK

2011:

  • New Dream Machine Project, L’Appartement22, Rabat, Morocco
  • Piercing Brightness, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, UK

2010:

  • A Mystery Play, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada
  • The Jewels of Aptor, Paradise Row, London, UK
  • Cities of the Future, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India
  • Intensive Surfaces, Århus Kunstbygning, Århus, Denmark

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022:

  • Leviathan, Toronto Biennial of Art

2021:

  • In-Between Days, Guggenheim, USA
  • Non-/Human Assemblages, Sea Art Festival, Busan, South Korea
  • Hawala, Paradise Row, London, UK
  • The Plot, Folkestone Triennial, UK

2020:

  • Between the sun and the moon, Lahore Biennial, Pakistan
  • University of NonDualism, Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh
  • Risquons-Tout, Wiels, Belgium
  • Infinite Village, Manifesta 13, Nice & Marseille, France
  • Our Ashes Make Great Fertilizer, PUBLIC Gallery, London, UK
  • The Light House, Boghossian Foundation – Villa Empain, Bruxelles, Belgium
  • Winter Light, Southbank Centre, UK

2019:

  • Leaving the Echo Chamber, Sharjah Biennial 14 – Sharjah Art Foundation
  • Leviathan: The Cod Trap, Toronto Biennial of Art
  • United Artists for Europe, Galerie Thaddeaus Ropac, London, UK
  • The Aerodrome – An exhibition dedicated to the memory of Michael Stanley, IKON, Birmingham, UK
  • 5 Passages to the Future, National Gallery of Indonesia

2018:

  • Imagined Borders, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
  • Delirium/Equilibrium, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi
  • Delfina in SongEun: Power play, SongEun ArtSpace, Seoul
  • What's essential, Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai
  • Rendez-vous with Frans Hals, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands
  • Lahore Biennale 01, Lahore, Pakistan

2017:

  • Screen City Biennial, Stavanger, Norway
  • I Want! I Want! - Art and Technology, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, UK
  • HUMAN/DIGITAL: a symbiotic love affair Digital, Post Internet and Virtual Reality from the Brown Family Collection, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherlands

2016:

  • Thinking Tantra, The Drawing Room, UK;
  • Neon: The Charged Line, Grundy Art Gallery, UK
  • Theatre De L'absurde, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam
  • The Universe and Art, Mori Art Museum, Japan
  • A Rotation of Six Video Works by Six International Artists from Collection (Anonymous), BMoCA's Union Works Gallery, USA
  • Thinking Tantra, Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai, India

2015:

  • Future Light, Vienna Biennale, Museum Angewandte Kunst (MAK) and Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
  • Doris Duke’s Shangri La: Architecture, Landscape, and Islamic Art, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu
  • Own Land/Foreign Territory, 7th Moscow Biennale, Manege, Moscow, Russia

2014:

  • Blow up, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
  • Blow up, C/O Berlin, Germany
  • Sous nos yeux, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
  • Where are we now? Marrakech Biennale 5, Morocco
  • Moving Images, Art Dubai, UAE
  • INTERACT: Deconstructing Spectatorship, Eastwing Biennial, Courtauld Institute, London, UK
  • Thread, MMKA, Arnhem Museum, Netherlands
  • The Great Acceleration, Taipei Biennial 2014, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Blow-Up, Photo‐Museum Winterthur, Germany
  • Conflict and Compassion - 3rd Asia Triennial Manchester, IWM North, Manchester, UK
  • /Seconds, Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE

2013:

  • Doris Duke’s Shangri La: Architecture, Landscape and Islamic Art, touring exhibition, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach
  • The World Turned Inside Out, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • Shakti, Kedleston Hall, Derby, UK
  • I Appear Missing, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Black Sun, Devi Art Foundation, Delhi (Curated by Shezad Dawood), India
  • I Look to You and I See Nothing, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
  • Sous nos yeux, La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, France
  • Open Heart Surgery, The Moving Museum, London, UK

2012:

  • Speak Nearby, Whitstable Biennale, UK
  • Lost in Paradise: Du spiritual dans l'art actuel, Loft Sévigné, Paris, France
  • Videonale 13 on tour, IZOLYATSIA Art Centre, Donetsk, Ukraine
  • Drawings, Paradise Row, London, UK

2011:

  • Videonale: Dialogue in Contemporary Video Art, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
  • Generation in Transition, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
  • Videonale, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn & BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice
  • The Pavement and the Beach, Paradise Row, London, UK
  • AS THE WORLD TURNS: New Art From London, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2010:

  • Living in Evolution, Busan Biennale, Busan
  • Rude Britannia: British Comic Art, Tate Britain, London, UK
  • Grand National, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen
  • Dawnbreakers, John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
  • Wonderland, Assab One, Milano, Italy
  • The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

2009:

  • AiM International Biennale 3rd Edition, Marrakech, Morocco
  • Making Worlds, The 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
  • Natural Wonders: New Art from London, Baibakov Art Projects, Moscow, Russia
  • Altermodern, Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London, UK

2008:

  • Indian Highway, in collaboration with Mukul Deora, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
  • Lightness of Being, Initial Access, The Frank Cohen Collection, UK
  • ReAsia, HKW, Berlin, Germany

Selected publications
  • Making New Time: Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber, Omar Kholeif (ed.), Prestel, Munich, Germany, 2019. ISBN 978-3791358499
  • Artists' Moving Image in Britain since 1989, Erika Balsam, Lucy Reynolds and Sarah Perks (eds.), Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art; London, 2019. ISBN 978-1-913107-01-7
  • Shezad Dawood: Kalimpong, Camilla Palestra (ed.), Sternberg Press and Timothy Taylor, London, 2016. ISBN 978-3-95679-276-2
  • It was a time that was a time, Gabriel Florenz and David Everitt Howe (eds.). Pioneer Works, New York, 2015. ISBN 978-0-9905935-6-0
  • The Great Acceleration – Taipei Biennial 2014, Jo Hsiao (ed.), Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, 2014. ISBN 978-9860444438
  • Shezad Dawood: Towards the Possible Film, Ziba Ardalan (ed.), Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London, 2014. ISBN 9780957351820
  • Black Sun, Gerrie van Noord (ed.). Ridinghouse in association with Devi Art Foundation and Arnolfini, 2013. ISBN 978-1-905464-845
  • Piercing Brightness, Gerrie van Noord (ed.), Koenig Books, London, 2012. ISBN 978-3-86335-146-5

Selected Press

References
  1. "Shezad Dawood". Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  2. Channel4.com
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