Shezad Dawood

Born:
1974
Residence:
London, United Kingdom
Nationality:
British
Trust:
APT London
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  • The artistic project Leviathon is on view at the historic Palazzina Canonica, located on the waterfront and open to the public for the first time since the 1970’s.

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  • Following on the success of the first public sale of works from the Artist Pension Trust® (APT) Collection at Sotheby’s New York earlier this month, further artworks from the collection will be offered at Sotheby’s London Contemporary Curated sale on April 12, 2017. These include a strong selection of works by beloved British artists like Ryan Gander, Liam Gillick, and Bob & Roberta Smith, as well as other international artists, at a wide range of price points, with low estimates from $1,200 (1,000 GBP) to high estimates of up to $35,000 (30,000 GBP).

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  • Following the models of HBO and Netflix, episodes will be streamed at international venues and released as a feature film in 2020

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  • Jane Lombard Gallery in New York is hosting an exhibition, titled 'Material Connections', that will be on view through February 18, 2017.

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  • 10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

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  • So Frieze Art Fair has left town and that marks the end of Frieze week, but there's still plenty of great art to see around London.

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  • Kalimpong, the Indian city that is the subject – and title – of Shezad Dawood’s first show with Timothy Taylor, is a real place rich with fantastical histories.

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  • We're huge fans of virtual reality being used by artists and have seen two brilliant exhibitions use this technology well, Jon Rafman and a group show at Gazelli Art House.

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  • A major new exhibition bringing together some of the most important neon artworks from the 1960s to the present day...

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  • In a globalized art world, a good navigator is essential. Arianne Levene Piper is a London-based art consultant and curator with specialist knowledge on international emerging art markets including China, Japan, Korea, India, Pakistan, and Iran. MutualArt talked with Levene Piper about her experiences traveling the globe in search of artists, the rise of the art consultant profession, and the emergence and development of the globalized art marketplace.

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  • Shezad Dawood contributed artist pages and new writing for "Chandigarh is in India" Ed. by Shanay Jhaveri. 

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  • Shezad Dawood was interviewed by Doug Ashford for the BOMB Magazine   

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  • 10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch

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  • It's a few years since the first galleries started opening amid the old iron mongers, carpentry warehouses, car showrooms and-out-of-town supermarkets of Dubai's Al Quoz

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  • The art world was brash and rude when ruled by Damien Hirst and his crew back in the 1990s. Artists were outspoken and irreverent.

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  • There are plenty of strange encounters with exotic creatures in Shezad Dawood's latest films, be they blue-faced sea people or moustachioed silent movie villains. The former are the focus of the British artist's latest offering

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  • Shezad Dawood’s Towards the Possible Film brings together new film, textile painting and neon work, alongside his selected works from the collection

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  • In his first solo show in China, British multimedia artist Shezad Dawood presents 'alien greetings' on textiles. Deng Zhangyu reports.

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  • Parasol Unit plays host to the solo show of London based artist, Shezad Dawood. Spanning the gallery’s ground floor and first floor levels

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  • There are plenty of strange encounters with exotic creatures in Shezad Dawood's latest films, be they blue-faced sea people or moustachioed silent movie villains. The former are the focus of the British artist's latest offering

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  • It's a few years since the first galleries started opening amid the old iron mongers, carpentry warehouses, car showrooms and-out-of-town supermarkets of Dubai's Al Quoz

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  • The art world was brash and rude when ruled by Damien Hirst and his crew back in the 1990s. Artists were outspoken and irreverent.

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  • From humble beginnings to international art fair extravaganza, the sixth annual Art Dubai fair returns to its roots this March. 2012’s Art Dubai promises to be its strongest edition yet. Featuring 75 galleries from 32 countries, the event has become a fundamental feature in the region, expanding to include art from across the globe. Recently, MutualArt spoke with Art Dubai director Antonia Carver, who shared some of the highlights of this year’s show, and why she believes the Gulf is fast-becoming a cornerstone of breakthrough artistic production.

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  • In its third year, the Abraaj Capital Art Prize continues to award artists an in this edition, five winning artists, one guest curator and a book project

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  • People are always wishing, hoping for some sort of transformative experience from art. Gazing at a Gainsborough is all well and good, transporting

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  • Why put your art in a gallery when it can be in the multiplex? As Steve McQueen’s movie premieres in Venice, Kaleem Aftab looks at the artist-directors

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  • Shezad Dawood is one of the winners of the Abraaj Capital Art Prize 2011, the major art prize for the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia.

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  • As of October Paradise Row will be located in the heart of London’s West End. The gallery is leaving its East End home for a 3,000-square-foot space

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  • From a record number of submissions, five artists have been chosen as winners of the third edition of the Abraaj Capital Art Prize,

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BIOGRAPHY

Shezad Dawood's work plays with the multiple possibilities engendered by the play between cultures, histories and fictions and takes from such genres as the frontier politics of the Wild West, to esoteric Islam, to the performance of history as slapstick. At the same time he deconstructs notions of authorship and representation by working with a steady stream of collaborators. These range from other artists, to film-set designers - all the while questioning the whole process of image-making and dissemination, moving through various points of identification. Including on a formal level: film, posters, performance, video and painting.

While starting from a point of cultural binary – the artist’s own somewhat blurred cultural heritage between India, Pakistan and Britain, the artist openly plays with various devices from avant-garde theatre, the conventions of art-house and low-budget film-making, to notions of cultural in-authenticity and appropriation.

Shezad studied at Central St. Martins before completing an MA & Mphil at the Royal College of Art. He completed his PhD at Leeds Met, looking at theatrical allegory as a device within contemporary art practice. His recent exhibitions includeKalimpong, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London (2016)  Videonale, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn (2011); Abraaj Capital Art Prize, Art Dubai, Dubai (2011); A Mystery Plan, Plug in ICA, Winnipeg (2010); The Jewels of Aptor, Paradise Row, London (2010); Cities of the Future, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai (2010); The Colour Blue, Abadi Art Space, New Delhi (2010); The State, Traffic, Dubai (2010); Living in Evolution, Busan Biennale, Busan (2010); Rude Britannia: British Comic Art, Tate Britain, London (2010); Grand National, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen (2010); Wonderland: New Art from London, Assab One, Milano (2010); As The Land Expands, Al Riwaq Art Space, Kingdom of Bahrain (2010); The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today, Saatchi Gallery, London (2010); I Knew I Should Have Taken that Right Turn at Albuquerque, Washington Garcia, Glasgow (2009); Montana, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam (2009). In 2009 he also participated in the AiM International Biennale 3rd Edition, Marrakech, Morocco; The Artist’s Studio, Compton Verney, Warwickshire; Making Worlds, The 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice and in Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009, (curated by Nicolas Bourriaud), Tate Britain, London.


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