Past Exhibitions - Solo
2020
Timothy Taylor (UK)
[Online] Shezad Dawood - Nets
4 November 2020 - 2 January 2021
The RYDER Madrid (ES) in collaboration with HERO (NE)
Shezad Dawood – Leviathan: Sueños del Futuro Pasado
26 February – 24 April 2020 (extended until 31 July 2020)
Preview 25 February
Photo: Pablo Brecha. Courtesy of The RYDER Madrid
2019
University of NonDualism
Frieze London, Regent’s Park
Curated by Diana Campbell Betancourt
Costumes by Priya Ahluwalia of Studio Ahluwalia, musical score by patten, choreography by Adrienne Hart / Neon Dance. Dancers: Pepa Ubera and Devaraj Thimmaiah
3 – 6 October 2019
PRESS:
Kunstverein München
Co-curated by Christina Maria Ruederer and Post Brothers
24 May – 21 July 2019
2018
Shezad Dawood
Leviathan, A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
18 November 2018 - 27 January 2019
Shezad Dawood
Leviathan
The Atlantic Project and Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth, UK
28 September - 21 October
Shezad Dawood
Leviathan: On Sunspots and Whales
Barakat Contemporary, Seoul, Korea
1st Sept - 4th Nov 2018
Shezad Dawood
Leviathan
2017
Leviathan Cycle, Episode 1: Ben
New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery, Manchester, UK
4 December 2017 - 9 March 2018
Leviathan. An episodic narrative by Shezad Dawood, Palazzina Canonica and Fortuny Factory, Venice, Italy
7 May - 24 September 2017
2016
2015
The Double Life of Arthur Schnitzler, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2 October - 14 November 2015
It was a time that was a time, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, New York, USA
11 September - 1 November 2015
Towards The Possible Film, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
18 July - 5 September 2015
2014
Towards The Centre. Once More - Sadler’s Wells & Tate Visual Art Commission, 2014, Sadler’s Wells, London, UK
9 October 2014 - 26 April 2015
Towards the Possible Film, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
3 October 2014 – 11 January 2015
Towards the Possible Film, Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London, UK
4 April – 25 May 2014
2013
Wolf Panel, Paradise Row, London, UK
13 December 2013 – 1 February 2014
Trailer, Art in General, New York, US
2012
Special project Saturday 2 February 2013, Shezad Dawood: ‘New Dream Machine Project’ with PRAED.
Parasolstice, Parasol Unit, London, UK
Cosmic Beach, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2011
New Dream Machine Project, L’Appartement22, Rabat, Morocco
2010
Intensive Surfaces, Århus Kunstbygning, Århus, Denmark
A Mystery Play, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada
2009
I Knew I Should Have Taken that Right Turn at Albuquerque, Washington Garcia, Glasgow, UK
2008
Journey to the End of the Night, Galleria Riccardo Crespi, Milan, Italy
Feature: Architecture, East Side Projects, Birmingham, UK
2007
The End of Civilisation, Axel Lapp Projects, Berlin, Germany
2006
Shezad Dawood & Friends, Artists’ Studio, London, UK
Past Exhibitions - Group
2021
Guggenheim (USA)
[Group show] In-Between Days
19 Mach 2021 - 19 April 2021
2020
Boghossian Foundation - Villa Empain (BE)
[Group show] The Light House
22 October 2020 - 18 April 2021
Frieze London / Jhaveri Contemporary (UK )
[Online] Jhaveri Contemporary, Frieze London Viewing Room
8 - 11 October 2020
[Group show] Highlights from Frieze Viewing Room, Jhaveri Contemporary
9-16 October 2020
Galerie Barbara Thumm (DE)
[Online] New Viewings, DEFENDER, curated by Gabriel Rolt
30 September - 30 December 2020
Artists: Adam Broomberg, Nik Christensen, Shezad Dawood and Bertien van Manen
Performance by: Lisette Ros
[Group show] Risquons-Tout
12 September 2020 - 28 March 2021
Photo by Phillippe de Gobert
Infinite Village - Manifesta 13 (FR)
[Group show] 28 August to 4 October 2020 at Espace Jouenne & Maison Montgrand, Marseille
[Group show ] 16 October to 29 November 2020 at 109, Nice
PUBLIC Gallery (UK)
[Group show] Our Ashes Make Great Fertilizer
Curated by Harminder Judge and Saelia Aparicio
12 August - 7 October
Seventeen (UK / online)
Real Time, group show curated by Damien Roach, hosted by Seventeen, London.
20 June - 18 July, 2020
The exhibition will take place across various spaces from gallery website, to radio, social media, playlists, Youtube, PDF publication and email.
Dhaka Art Summit (BD)
Shezad Dawood – University of NonDualism (new iteration)
Curated by Diana Campbell Betancourt
Musical score by patten
7 – 15 February 2020
Lahore Biennial 02 - between the sun and the moon (PK)
Shezad Dawood - Encroachments
Curated by Hoor Al Qasimi
26 January - 29 February 2020
2019
5 Passages to the Future
National Gallery of Indonesia
Curated by Evelyn Huang, Irene Agrivine, Jeong Ok Jeon, Nin Djani & Ratna Djuwita
21 October - 7 November 2019
Leviathan: The Cod Trap
Curated by Ilana Shamoon, Clare Butcher and Myung-Sun Kim
21 September – 1 December 2019
The Aerodrome – An exhibtion dedicated to the memory of Michael Stanley
Ikon, Birmingham
Co-curated by David Austen and George Shaw
12 June – 8 September 2019
United Artists for Europe – Art Committed for Europe
21 – 24 May 2019: Exhibition at Galerie Thaddeaus Ropac
22 May, 11 AM – 6 PM: A session of talks
3 June: Charity Auction
Initiator: Bernard-Henri Lèvy
Host: Galerie Thaddeaus Ropac
Organisors: The Hexagon Society, Simon de Pury, Tancrède Hertzog & Leopold Legros
Auction beneficiaries: Artagon; Europa Nostra
Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber
Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
Curated by Zoe Butt, Omar Kholeif and Claire Tancons
7 March – 10 June, 2019
Encroachments (2019), a new VR work by Shezad Dawood featured in Sharjah Biennial 14
2018
Shezad Dawood
Delfina in SongEun: Power play, SongEun ArtSpace, Seoul, Korea
30 August – 01 December 2018
A selection of new work by Shezad Dawood will be featured in the Lahore Biennale 01, Lahore, Pakistan
18th - 31st March, 2018
Leviathan Cycle: Episode 1: Ben will be exhibited by A Tale of a Tub in Projections at Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
8 - 11 February 2018
Ideal Types
An exhibition by Maurits Hertzberger and Gabriel Rolt. Formulated by Alfredo Cramerotti, with additional input by Elsa Barbieri on behalf of Art Contemporary, Partnership. Featuring work by 16 international artists including Ewa Axelrad, and Bedwyr Williams.
HE.RO Amsterdam, The Netherlands
23 January - 18 March 2018
2017
Screen City Biennial, Stavanger, Norway
12 - 15 October 2017
I Want! I Want! - Art and Technology, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, UK
1 April - 1 October 2017
Drawing Biennial 2017, Drawing Room, London, UK
2 March – 26 April 2017
HUMAN/DIGITAL: a symbiotic love affair Digital, Post Internet and Virtual Reality from the Brown Family Collection, Kunsthal Rotterdam, The Netherlands
9 February - 2 April 2017
2016
Thinking Tantra, Drawing Room, London, UK
24 November 2016 – 19 February 2017
The Universe and Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
30 July – 18 October, 2016
2015
Own Land/Foreign Territory, 7th Moscow Biennale, Manege, Moscow, Russia
15 September - 26 October 2015
Vienna Biennale, Future Light, Museum Angewandte Kunst (MAK) and Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
11 June-4 October 2015. Curated by Maria Lind
Doris Duke’s Shangri La: Architecture, Landscape, and Islamic Art, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu
12 February - 7 June 2015
2014
Conflict and Compassion - 3rd Asia Triennial Manchester, IWM North, Manchester, UK
27 September 2014 - 23 November 2014
The Great Acceleration - Taipei Biennial 2014, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
13 September 2014 - 4 January 2015
Blow up, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
30 April – 17 August 2014
Art Dubai, UAE
19 – 22 March 2014
26 February – 31 March 2014
INTERACT: Deconstructing Spectatorship - Eastwing Biennial, Courtauld Institute, London
January 2014 - June 2014
2013
Tate Britain, London, UK
25 November 2013 – March 2014
Black Sun, Devi Art Foundation, Delhi, India
9 November 2013 – 27 April 2014
Curated Exhibition
Sous nos yeux, La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, France
19 September – 17 November 2013
Doris Duke’s Shangri La: Architecture, Landscape and Islamic Art, the Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, US
29 August 2013 – 5 January 2014
Doris Duke’s Shangri La: Architecture, Landscape and Islamic Art, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, US
Shakti, Kedleston Hall, Derby, UK
21 June – 3 November 2013
2012
Speak Nearby, Whitstable Biennale, UK
Videonale 13, IZOLYATSIA Art Centre, Donetsk, Ukraine
Drawings, Paradise Row, London, UK
2011
Videonale: Dialogue in Contemporary Video Art, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
How I Learned To Stop Fearing and Love the Exotic Art, Art Life Lounge, JAMM Foundation, Kuwait
Generation in Transition, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Videonale, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany & BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice, Poland
The Pavement and the Beach, Paradise Row, London, UK
AS THE WORLD TURNS: New Art From London, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2010
Illuminations (After Arthur Rimbaud), Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery, New York, US
Living in Evolution, Busan Biennale, Busan, South Korea
Rude Britannia: British Comic Art, Tate Britain, London, UK
Grand National, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen, Norway
Dawnbreakers, John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Wonderland: New Art from London, Assab One, Milan, Italy
The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2009
Disorientation II, Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Untold: The Rise of Schisms (Indian Popular Culture and Beyond), Sala de Exposiciones Alcala 31, Madrid, Spain
AiM International Biennale 3rd Edition, Marrakech, Morocco
The Artist’s Studio, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
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
2007
Hobbyhorse, Arndt & Partner, Zurich, Switzerland
2006
Bubble & Squeak, PM Gallery, Toronto, Canada
East Wing Collection, Courtauld Institute, London, UK
2005
Yabba Dabba Do, Cell Project Space, London, UK
London in Six Easy Steps, ICA, London, UK
Go Between, Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria
We Have Met the Enemy & He Is Us, Redux, London, UK
2003
Indians & Cowboys, Gallery 4a, Sydney, Australia
2002
Site + Sight, Earl-Lu Gallery, Singapore
Ausgang, Studio Voltaire, London, UK
2001
Century City, Tate Modern, London, UK
2000
000zerozerozero, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
Through A Glass Darkly, Kunstlerhaus Mösentürm, Frankfurt, Germany
Selbst | porträt, Schloss Agathenburg, Agathenburg, Germany