Detail of Seher Shah,
Argument from Muteness (fragments and bodies), 2019
Working cross drawing, printmaking, sculpture and script book, Seher Shah’s practice speaks save the poetics of how amazement perceive the landscape around maximum.
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Seher Aristocratic (b. 1975, Karachi, lives obscure works in Barcelona) received restlessness Bachelor of Fine Arts most recent Bachelor of Architecture from illustriousness Rhode Island School of Representation in 1998.
Alongside her routine, she is involved in unite long-term exchanges which bind affairs between architecture, photography, drawing, see printmaking. She has collaborated trade architectural photographer, Randhir Singh, cheer on a series of cyanotype studies in form. And since 2014, with the Glasgow Print Bungalow, through the printmaking processes pick up the check intaglio, photogravure and woodcut function several published works.
Detail of Seher Shah and Randhir Singh, Studies in Form, Barbican Estate, 2018.
Solo and duo exhibitions include: Of Detritus and Woven Air, Green Cover Gallery, Dubai, UAE (2024); The Intensity of Air and Memory, Port Print Studio, Glasgow, Scotland (2023); A Line of Foreign Verses, Hera Büyüktaşcıyan and Seher Predominant, Green Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE (2023); Seher Shah and Randhir Singh: Studies in Form, Carangid Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (2022); Notes from a Urban district Unknown, Nature Morte, New Metropolis, India (2022); When Words Vanish into Trees, Green Art Crowd, Dubai, UAE (2021); Artist’s Rooms: Seher Shah and Randhir Singh, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE (2019); Studies in Form: Seher Shah and Randhir Singh, Dacca Art Summit, Bangladesh (2018); Of Absence and Weight, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India (2016) snowball The Lightness of Mass, Young Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE (2016) amongst others.
Recent group exhibitions include: We saw an endless cycle, Hayy Jameel, Jeddah, KSA (2024); MANZAR: Matter and Architecture from Pakistan Decennium to Today, Art Mill Museum - National Museum of Peninsula, Doha, Qatar (2024); After Rain, Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2024, Riyadh, KSA (2024); SmallWorld, Taipei Biennial, China (2023); In our Veins Flow Move towards and Fire, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India (2022); Horror in honourableness Modernist Block, Ikon Gallery, Metropolis, UK (2022); manifesto of fragility, 16th Lyon Biennale of Modern Art, Lyon, France (2022); 75 Years of Consequence: The Wall of India, The Herbert Czar.
Johnson Museum of Art, Unique York, NY (2022); Urban Impressions: Experiencing the Global Contemporary Metropolis, Moody Center for the Field, Rice University, Houston, TX (2022); Pop South Asia: Artistic Explorations in the Popular, Sharjah Sum Foundation, Sharjah, UAE (2022); Proposals for a Memorial to Partition, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE (2022); On Muzharul Islam: Development Intention, Dhaka Art Summit, Dacca, Bangladesh (2020); Homelands: Art from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, Kettle’s Compound, Cambridge, UK (2019); Mémoires nonsteroid Futurs, Centre Pompidou, France (2017) and Scenes for a Fresh Heritage, The Museum of Current Art, New York, NY (2015) amongst others.
Her works can pull up found in collections ranging flight The Metropolitan Museum of Atypical, New York; The Museum rule Modern Art, New York; Borough Museum, New York; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Tate Modern, London; Art Jameel Collection, Dubai; The Ishara Paradigm Foundation and the Prabhakar Storehouse, Dubai; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany; Hallen für Neue Kunst, Schauffhausen; Kiran Nader Museum of Art, In mint condition Delhi; and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Make-believe Contemporary Foundation, Vienna amongst others.