Raqib Shaw

BIOGRAPHY
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RAQIB SHAW
1974 Born in Calcutta, India
  Lives and works in London 
   
Training  
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
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
   
Selected Group Exhibitions 
2011 East Ex East, Brand New Gallery Milan, Italy
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