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SELECTED WORKS BY Shezad Dawood



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Shezad Dawood

The Bestower

2007
Neon, tumbleweed with enamelled aluminium plinth

163 x 51 x 51 cm


Shezad Dawood

The Protector

2007
Neon, tumbleweed with enamelled aluminium plinth

163 x 51 x 51 cm


Shezad Dawood

The Judge

2007
Neon, tumbleweed with enamelled aluminium plinth

163 x 51 x 51 cm


Shezad Dawood

The Majestic

2007
Neon, tumbleweed with enamelled aluminium plinth

163 x 51 x 51 cm



ARTIST INFORMATION




Shezad Dawood's BIOGRAPHY



1974
Born in London

Lives and works in London


SOLO EXHIBITIONS


2008
Feature, film project/touring exhibition, Wysing Arts Centre, Leeds Metropolitan
University, Castlefield, Manchester
Third Line, Dubai

2007
If I Should Fall From Grace With God, Paradise Row, London
The End of Civilisation, Axel Lapp Projects, Berlin

2006
Shezad Dawood & Friends, Artists’ Studio, London

2005
Paradise Row, London (curated by Chris Hammond)

2003
Shrine, 1,000,000 mph, Old Bethnal Green Road, London E2
Karma Cola, Osterwalder's Art Office, Hamburg, & Tablet, Tabernacle, London

2002
Multiplicity, Osterwalder's Art Office, Hamburg
Shez 360, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham


GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2007
Hobbyhorse, Arndt & Partner, Zurich, October 2007 (curated by Elaine Ng)
Lemon Sky, Miami

2006
Bubble & Squeak (curated by Shay Oahyon), PM Gallery, Toronto
East Wing Collection, Courtauld Institute, London
Lila/Play, Span Gallery, Melbourne
Very Funny: Humour in Video Art, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
Video Passages, Incontemporanea, Via Torino, Milan, curated by Mario Gorni &
Simona Bordone, in collaboration with the province of Milan

2005
Yabba Dabba Do, Cell Project Space, with Hilary Koob-Sassen, London
in Six Easy Steps, ICA, London
Go Between, Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria
Belluard Bollwerk International, Fribourg, Switzerland
The Condition of England, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
We Have Met the Enemy & He Is Us, Redux, London
Gigolo, Trailer, Trafalgar Hilton, London, curated by Juan Bolivar
Showcase, City Arts Centre, Edinburgh
Sci-Fi, MOT, Regent’s Studios, London
The World as Will & Idea, Platform for Art commission for Piccadilly Circus
underground station
Truth Machine, performances at Port Eliot Lit Festival, St Germans, Cornwall
Lecture In Conversation, Performance at Henry Moore Institute, Leeds with Peter
Lewis & Crazy Horse Following, Leeds City Centre with David Medalla, both as
part of Situation Leeds, Artists & The Public Realm.

2004
Showcase Preview, South London Gallery, London
Pilot:1, Limehouse Town Hall, London
Vinyl#2 Taste, Redux, London
Plaza Suite, Union, London
Homes With No Walls, Mumbai, India
Weltbelkannt, Specially commissioned display panels for U-Bahn platforms,
Hauptbahnhof Hamburg

2003
Intervention, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
Indians & Cowboys, Gallery 4a, Sydney, Australia
Presence, Leighton House Museum, London
Chockerfuckingblocked, Jeffrey Charles Gallery, London
Long Live The Candy Floss Mavericks, Debenhams Windows, in association with
CommeÇa Art, Manchester

2002
Message to India, New Delhi, Mumbai
More Loving, 323 Old St., London
Neon Gallery, Commercial St., London
Site + Sight, Earl-Lu Gallery, Singapore
Ausgang, Studio Voltaire, London
Location:UK, Gimpel Fils,, London
Fame & Promise, 14 Wharf Road, London
Aar Paar 2, Poster Project, simultaneously in Karachi, Pakistan & Mumbai, India.

2001
Century City, Tate Modern, London
The Tender Trap, 15c St. Charles Sq., London
Camouflage, Nehru Centre, Indian High Commission, London W1
selbst | porträt, Schloss Agathenburg, Agathenburg, Germany
Project Wax, show and auction for Cancer Research at the Metropolitan Hotel,
London W1, featuring Mona Hatoum, Keith Tyson, Bob & Roberta Smith, amongst
others.
art tube 01, Piccadilly Line, London Underground, featuring Damien Hirst, Gavin
Turk, Vivienne Westwood, Yoko Ono & others.

2000
Crush, Hoax, London
Loving, 25c Marylands Road, London
Point of View, Richard Salmon Gallery, London
HOAX @ Lux, Lux Centre, London
Through A Glass Darkly, Kunstlerhaus Mösentürm, Frankfurt
Rocky Mountains & Tired Indians, Commission for the Royal College of Art Façade,
sponsored by Playmobil gmbh
Tower Hamlets Billboard Project, in association with the Whitechapel Art Gallery
and the Millennium Commission

1999
000zerozerozero, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Crown Jewels, Kampnagel (K3) Hamburg and NGBK (Neue Gesselschaft der
Bildende Kunst) Berlin

 


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