Exhibitions

Ballads of East and West

Isabella Stewart Gardiner Museum 15 Feb - 12 May 2024 Raqib Shaw is an internationally renowned painter, whose work echoes across centuries and continents articulating a dialogue between East and West. Based in London, the artist lived most of his childhood in the Indian city of Srinagar, a ‘Heaven on Earth’ encircled by Himalayan mountains, lakes, and magical gardens. The... Read more

Space Between Dreams

Pace Gallery - New York 10 Nov - 22 Dec 2023 As Pace’s first presentation of Shaw’s work in New York since 2019, Space Between Dreams brought together 15 meticulously wrought works that merge imagined and real landscapes, combining imagery drawn from the artist’s memories of his native Kashmir; cityscapes evocative of London, New York, and Venice; and scenes from his... Read more

Ballads of East and West

Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Tennesse 15 Sep - 31 Dec 2023 This exhibition tells stories that take place within hybridized geographies—some evoke childhood memories of a Kashmiri paradise, while others show glistening cities and Boschian landscapes in flames that unnervingly project the crises and disasters facing the world today. In his works, Shaw uses a variety of paints applied with a... Read more

Raqib Shaw: Palazzo della Memoria

Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna, Ca' Pesaro, Venice 22 Apr - 25 Sep 2022 ‘Raqib Shaw’s paintings allow the viewer to travel between the natural beauties of Kashmir and his home in South London. Here, the artist has constructed his own memory paradise with views onto distant cities and pastoral landscapes. Executed with meticulous detail and a unique command of colour, each painting demands... Read more

Tales from an Urban Garden

Dries Van Noten LA, The Little House 16 Feb - 26 Mar 2022 Dries Van Noten and Jeffrey Deitch, in collaboration with White Cube, are honored to present the work of Raqib Shaw in Tales from an Urban Garden at The Little House, 451 N. La Cienega Blvd. in Los Angeles. Tales from an Urban Garden brings the enchanted world of Raqib Shaw’s... Read more

Reflections Upon the Looking-Glass River

Pace Geneva 8 Jun - 7 Aug 2021 Reflections Upon the Looking-Glass River brings together a suite of recent paintings made while in lockdown. Presented in dialogue with one another, these intricate paintings speak to the most pressing themes of contemporary life: beauty, kindness, cruelty, loneliness, contentment, loss. Read more

A Summer Among the Narcissi

White Cube (Online) 28 May - 1 Aug 2021 There is a dignity to this; there is a formality -- The flowers vivid as bandages, and the man mending. They bow and stand: they suffer such attacks! from Among the Narcissi by Sylvia Plath Featuring a new series of circular, enamel and pencil drawings, the presentation is titled after... Read more

Raqib Shaw: Landscapes of Kashmir

Pace Gallery - New York 5 Apr - 18 May 2019 For his second exhibition at Pace Gallery Raqib Shaw drew inspiration from his childhood memories of Kashmir and the nature and architecture of the Indian subcontinent, mining and re-envisioning his own personal history through a new series of compulsively-detailed, meticulously-crafted, and emotionally-potent paintings. Raqib Shaw: Landscapes of Kashmir, Pace Gallery... Read more

Reinventing the Old Masters

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art - Edinburgh 19 May - 28 Oct 2018 In 2018 Raqib Shaw was invited by Patrick Elliot, Senior Curator at the National Galleries of Scotland to exhibit in Edinburgh. Seven of Shaw’s paintings were selected by Elliot to be exhibited alongside two paintings from the gallery collection: Joseph Noel Paton’s The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania and Lucas... Read more

Bearing Points (Dhaka Art Summit)

Dhaka, Bangladesh 2 - 10 Feb 2018 In January 2018 Raqib Shaw’s Whitworth exhibition (Co-curated by Dr. Maria Balshaw, Director of Tate and Diana Campbell Betancourt, Chief Curator Dhaka Art Summit) was reimagined for the Dhaka Art Summit in Bangladesh. Raqib’s solo presentation was exhibited as part of Bearing Points an exhibition curated Diana Campbell Betancourt. “DAS... Read more

Raqib Shaw

The Whitworth 23 Jun - 19 Nov 2017 Raqib Shaw’s exhibition at the Whitworth sort to examine the real and imagined spaces between the East and West, the exhibition brought together Shaw’s paintings of fantastical worlds with historic textiles, drawings and furniture from the Whitworth’s collection. The exhibition took the form of an installation, drawing on influences of... Read more

Self-Portraits

White Cube - Bermondsey, London 3 Jul - 11 Sep 2016 In July 2016 White Cube Bermondsey presented an exhibition of new paintings and sculpture by Raqib Shaw. This exhibition included a series of paintings referencing, in part, Old Masters from the collections of the National Gallery, London, and Prado Museum, Madrid, as well as three new bronze sculptures that recall... Read more

Raqib Shaw

White Cube at Glyndebourne - Lewes, East Sussex 21 May - 10 Sep 2016 In 2016 White Cube in collaboration with Glyndebourne Festival, presented an exhibition of paintings by Raqib Shaw. For the exhibition, presented in a gallery custom designed by the award-winning architectural studio Carmody Groarke, Shaw produced three new large-scale paintings in direct response to the festivals programme. For these works Shaw,... Read more

New Sculptures and Paintings

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Marais, Paris 6 Jun - 25 Jul 2015 For his second solo exhibition at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris Raqib Shaw exhibited a series of new bronze sculptures and alongside four paintings. “Meticulously cast using the traditional ‘lost wax’ method at the revered AB Foundry in England, Shaw’s new sculptures, at first glance, resemble Late-Mannerist bronzes from the... Read more

Paradise Lost

Pace Gallery - 508/510/534 West 25th Street, New York 8 Nov 2013 - 11 Jan 2014 November 2013 saw Raqib Shaw exhibit at Pace Gallery New York. Held across three venues in the city and based on the theme of John Milton’s Paradise Lost this was Shaw’s first public presentation in New York since his 2008 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Included in the... Read more

Raqib Shaw

Galerie Rudolfinium - Prague 7 Jun - 15 Sep 2013 Raqib Shaw’s 2013 exhibition was the first time the artists work had been shown in the Czech Republic. Working closely with the Rudolfinium and curator Petr Nedoma Shaw selected a series of works which sort to express the full depth and complexity of his practise. “Raqib Shaw creates bestial energy-filled... Read more

Raqib Shaw

Manchester Art Gallery 15 Feb - 26 May 2013 In 2013 Raqib Shaw had a small survey exhibition at Manchester City Art Gallery, it was his first exhibition in the city. “Visitors upon entering the gallery doors sweep past a magical series of willow and spring flower installations to discover paintings, sculptures and works on paper by Raqib Shaw.... Read more

Of Beasts and Super-Beasts

Galerie Thaddeus Ropac - Marais, Paris 3 Mar - 7 Apr 2012 For his first solo presentation at Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Raqib Shaw exhibited a suite of drawings stemming from his Paradise Lost œuvre in 2011. “The anthropomorphic figures have heads like birds, crocodiles or even tigers, somewhere between gods and heroes. They hold bowls with griffon bases, pitchers with swan neck... Read more

Paradise Lost

White Cube - Mason's Yard, London 28 Sep - 12 Nov 2011 For his third exhibition with White Cube Raqib Shaw presented Paradise Lost a series of work that part inspired by John Milton’s epic poem of the same name. “The departure point for this series of work was Shaw’s painting The Mild-Eyed Melancholy of the Lotus Eaters which refers to Homer’s... Read more

Absence of God

White Cube - Hoxton Square, London 20 May - 4 Jul 2009 Absence of God was Raqib Shaw’s first exhibition at White Cube. The exhibition situated across two floors of White Cube Hoxton Square saw installed on the ground floor seven paintings, including his, then largest to date, measuring over 7m wide. The first-floor gallery was dedicated to Adam , Shaw’s first... Read more

Raqib Shaw at the Met

Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York 8 Nov 2008 - 3 Mar 2009 Raqib Shaw at the Met was Shaw’s first solo exhibition in a New York museum and marked a turning point in his work – from Holbein inspired works to his Absence of God series. In Shaw’s words, “Holbein has passed the baton to Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778). As my painting... Read more

Art Now: Raqib Shaw

Tate Britain - Millbank, London 7 Oct - 17 Dec 2006 In October 2006 Raqib Shaw exhibited as part of Tate’s Art Now , a series of exhibitions at Tate Britain focusing on new work by emerging artists. For his exhibition Shaw took as inspiration the work of Hans Holbein a Sixteenth Century German artist and printmaker. It was Hans Holbein’s... Read more

Raqib Shaw: Garden of Earthly Delights

Museum of Contemporary Art Miami - North Miami 18 Feb - 16 Apr 2006 Raqib Shaw’s exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Miami was the artist’s first solo exhibition in a museum in the United States of America. “Featuring over 15 works on board and paper, the exhibition title and the works exhibited are a 21st century reference to the 15th century Flemish... Read more

Garden of Earthly Delights

Deitch Projects - 76 Grand Street, New York 7 Sep - 8 Oct 2005 In September 2005 Raqib Shaw had his first solo show in New York with Deitch Projects. Taking its title from the eponymous Hieronymous Bosch painting, Garden of Earthly Delights featured five new paintings and twenty drawings describing the erotic underwater realm of Raqib’s imagination; Oriental, psychedelic, surreal, pornographic, and decorative,... Read more