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, GermanySelected publications
* ''Making New Time: Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber,'' Omar Kholeif (ed.), Prestel, Munich, Germany, 2019. * ''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. * ''Shezad Dawood: Kalimpong'', Camilla Palestra (ed.), Sternberg Press and Timothy Taylor, London, 2016. * ''It was a time that was a time,'' Gabriel Florenz and David Everitt Howe (eds.). Pioneer Works, New York, 2015. * ''The Great Acceleration – Taipei Biennial 2014'', Jo Hsiao (ed.), Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, 2014. * ''Shezad Dawood: Towards the Possible Film'', Ziba Ardalan (ed.), Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London, 2014. * ''Black Sun,'' Gerrie van Noord (ed.). Ridinghouse in association with Devi Art Foundation and Arnolfini, 2013. * ''Piercing Brightness,'' Gerrie van Noord (ed.), Koenig Books, London, 2012.Selected Press
* ArtForum, March 2022References