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SEHER SHAH
Born Karachi, Pakistan Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION
1998 BA, BFA, Painting and Architecture, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 30 / 60 / 90, Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai, India Soft Brutalism: A Project for the Utah Biennial, dual exhibition with Matthew Antezzo, curated by Aaron Moulton, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT
Radiant Lines, Nature Morte, Berlin, Germany
2011 Object Anxiety, Scaramouche, New York
2009 Paper to Monument, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India
2008 Jihad Pop, Bose Pacia, New York
2007 The Black Star, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Radical Terrain, curated by Beth Citron, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, Lines of Control, Green Cardamom Project, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Intersections on Paper, Sherin Najjar Gallery, Berlin, Germany Brute Ornament, bi-solo exhibition with Kamrooz Aram, curated by Murtaza Vali, Green Art Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2011 Positions, curated by Marion Wild, GBG Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland Drawing 2011, Biennial, Drawing Room, London, UK Drawn from Life, Green Cardamom Project, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Cumbria, UK Manual for Treason, Artist projects, Sharjah Biennial X publication, edited by Murtaza Vali Eccentric Architecture, curated by Hitomi Iwasaki, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
2010 20/20: Envisioning the Future, Above Second, Hong Kong, China Uber Wut / On Rage, curated by Valerie Smith, Susan Stemmler and Cordula Hamschmidt, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany Spiral Jetty, curated by Peter Nagy, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India Alternative Cartographies, Headlands Center for the Arts Project Space, Sausilito, CA
2009 Herd Thinner, curated by David Hunt, Charest Weinberg, Miami, FL Public Access Collective: Art/Culture/ Ideas. Projects for a small world, Artist projects: curated by Gregory Burke, The Power Plant and Christine Davis Group exhibition, Nature Morte, Berlin, Germany How Nations are Made, curated by Hammad Nasar, Green Cardamom project, Cartwright Hall, UK The Last Sessions, curated by Jan van Woensel, Flemish Cultural Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands Jameel prize, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, U.K. Traveling through 2011 to: The National Museum, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, The National Museum, Damascus, Beiteddine Palace, Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization, UAE, Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Istanbul, Turkey, La Villa des Arts, Casablanca, Morocco Bad Moon Rising, curated by Jan van Woensel, Galerie Sans Titre, Brussels, Belgium Lines of Control, curated by Hammad Nasar Third Line gallery, Dubai, U.A.E, VM gallery, Karachi, Pakistan and Green Cardamom, London Infinite Possibilities, curated by Eric Heist and Michael Waugh, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
2008 The Labyrinth Wall: From Mythology to Reality, curated by Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo, Exit Art, New York FIAC, Grand Palais & Louvre, Paris, France Sub-Architecture Continental, Galerie Alain le Gaillard, Paris, France Empire and Its Discontents, curated by Amy Schlegel and Rhonda Saad, Tufts University at the Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, MA The Gift: New Acquisitions, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY 21: Selections of Contemporary Art, curated by Eugenie Tsai and Patrick Amsellem, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Drawing Space, curated by Hammad Nasar, Green Cardamom, London, UK NY/LA, curated by Barry Keldoulis, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney, Australia
2007 Generation 1.5, curated by Tom Finkelpearl and Valerie Smith, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY Art Basel Miami Beach, Bose Pacia and Nature Morte, Miami, FL New Art Dealers Alliance, Momenta Art, Miami, FL Summertime, Gallery Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland Group Exhibition, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India Zeichnunge: Conceptual and Concrete Drawings, Gallery Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland Art Dubai, Bose Pacia and Nature Morte, Dubai, UAE Armory, Bose Pacia and Nature Morte, New York The Devotee Exhausts the Forces of Activity, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney, Australia Changing Climate, Abrons Art Center, New York
2006 In a State of Emergency: Women, War and the Politics of Urban Survival, curated by Derrick Adams, Arshiya Lokhandwala and Uzma Rizvi, South Asian Womens Creative Collective, New York Liverpool Biennial: The Independents, International Digital Art, Liverpool, UK Fatal Love: Radical political art from South Asia, Queen’s Museum of Art, Queens, NY 29th Small Works Exhibition, Washington Square East Gallery, New York
ARTIST LECTURES, RESIDENCIES, AND AWARD NOMINATIONS
2014 Below Another Sky, Scottish Print Network residency; Glasgow Print Studio
Asia Art Archive; Unpacking Global: Abstraction. Byron Kim, Seher Shah and Wang Gangle. Moderated by Joan Kee, Assistant Professor of Art, University of Michigan. The Drawing Center and the Stuckeman School of Architecture: WWW Drawing Symposium, invitational panel representing diverse positions with regard to contemporary drawing and its evolution in a digital age, The Drawing Center, NY. New Agency in Drawing, Panel Discussing the Intersection of Art and Architecture, The Jones Center, AMOA-Arthouse, Austin, TX, Kory Beig, Igor Siddiqui, Seher Shah and Eric Zimmerman. Moderated by Rachel Adams, Associate Curator of Exhibitions and Public Programs. Artists on Art, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, N.Y. Khoj International Artists Association, Kanu Agrawal, architect and urban theorist, and Seher Shah, artist; Landscape Proposals. A conversation based on 230MB/ Exhibition without Objects, New Delhi, India.
Duke University, Artist lecture, Durham, North Carolina, Borderworks Residency, Duke University.
2011 Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artist lecture for the Arab Lands, New York. City University of New York at Lehman College, Seminar in Contemporary Art, Visiting artist, New York. Panel discussion with artists Trevor Paglen and Michael Rakowitz for the exhibition “Taking Sides,” hosted by Paddle 8 and Lombard-Fried Projects
2010 Headlands Center for the Arts, Project Space Residency, Sausilito, CA Persol project, Film and catalogue, Milan, Italy Skateistan, Afghanistan school fundraiser, skateboard design, New York
2009 Rolex Mentor & Protege Arts Initiative, Nominated for Initiative program, Geneva, Switzerland Printed Matter: Nominated for Artist printed matter award, New York Cue Arts Foundation: Artist talk with Zarina Hashmi & Seher Shah, New York Victoria & Albert Museum: Jameel prize artist talk, London. U.K.
2008 Brooklyn Museum, Artist Lecture Series, Brooklyn. NY Exit Art, Benefit auction, New York Momenta Art, Benefit auction, New York Headlands Center for the Arts, Benefit auction, Sausilito, CA Bose Pacia gallery: Artist talk with Eugenie Tsai, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum, New York
SELECTED REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
2014 Mehta, Kaiwan, "Drawing Allegories", Domus, March Nagree, Zeenat, "Seher Shah, Critic’s Pick", Artforum, January Desai, Phalguni, "Intangible Blueprints", Time Out Mumbai, January Akhtar, Asif, "Object Anxiety", Naked Punch, January Kelkar Guari, "The Space Time Continuum", Architectural Digest, January
2013 Sorabjee, Deepika, "Falling into Line", Live Mint, Wall Street Journal, December Savlani, Sonam, "Fine Lines", Elle Magazine, December Breese, Josephine, "Lines that Bind", The Herald, September Adams, Rachel, Texas Architect, "Seher Shah’s Constructed Landscapes", July/ August. Conrad, Josh, Pastelegram, "Seher Shah:Constructed Landscapes", July. Sigal, Lisa, "The Drawing Center, The Bottom Line", Seher Shah, June. Irwin, Matthew, "Constructed Landscapes", The Austin Chronicle, June. Irwin, Matthew, "Public and Private Space at the Jones Center", Glasstire, June. Shahan, Susan, "Constructed Landscapes", Glasstire, June. Würful, Carolin, "Paper Monuments", Baumeister, Das Architektur magazin, May. "Vitamin D2, New Perspectives in Drawing", Phaidon Press, May Brooks, Katherine, "10 International Artists to Watch in 2013", Huffington Post, January
Bakirathi Mani, “Archives of Empire: Seher Shah’s Geometric Landscapes and the Spectacle of Force,” Social Text 108, Fall Howard Halle, “Your guide to Lower East Side shows: Seher Shah, ‘Object Anxiety,’” Time Out New York, September 8 – 14 ‘UBER WUT/ ON RAGE’, Exhibition publication, Curated by Valerie Smith, Susan Stemmler and Cordula Hamschmidt, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, April Karen Kurczynski, “Drawing is the New Painting,” Art Journal, Spring Jyoti Dhar, “Monuments of the Mind,” Art Asia Pacific, Issue 74, July/August Online Studio Visit, Art Asia Pacific, July Bakirathi Mani, “Archives of Empire: Seher Shah’s Geometric Landscapes and the Spectacle of Force,” Social Text, Duke and Columbia University, October
2010 Alexander Keefe, “Superior Firepower for now: Seher Shah’s Black-light Landscapes,” Take on Art, January “Seher Shah,” Whitewall Magazine, February Meera Menezes, “Assembling Authority, Structuring Power,” Arts India Magazine, March Alexandra A. Seno, “Great Female Artists,” Newsweek, August
2009 Hammad Nasar, forward to exhibition catalog, Lines of Control, February Sophia Money-Coutts, “Aligning the Debate,” The National, February Eliza Williams, “Lines of Control” Frieze, March “Armory Selects,” Interview Magazine, March Generation 1.5, exhibition publication, Queens Museum of Art, June Himanshu Bhagat, “Live Mint, Mind over Matter: review of ‘Paper to Monument.’” The Wall Street Journal, December Natasha Bharuah, “Monuments in Paper,” Artslant, December “Herd Thinner,” Whitewall Magazine, December
2008 Yaelle Amir, “Jihad Pop,” Art US, Issue No. 21, January “Emerging Artists of 2007,” Frieze, Issue 112, January Tom Finkelpearl and Peter Nagy,essay and interview, Jihad Pop, exhibition catalogue, March Drawing Space, exhibition catalogue, Green Cardamom, July Amy Schlegal, “Foreward,” Empire and its Discontents, Tufts University exhibition catalogue, September Mari Dumett, “Empire and its Discontents,” Art Papers, November
COLLECTIONS
Brooklyn Museum, New York Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Deutsche Bank Art Contemporary Museum of Modern Art, New York Museum of Contemporary Art /Hallen fur Neue Kunst, Schauffhausen, Switzerland The Progressive Collection Alter Hall Art Collection, Temple University, Philadelphia Queens Museum of Art, New York Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Foundation (T-B A21), Vienna, Austria
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