TEXTBIOGRAPHY

Shaheen Merali



BIOBIBLIOGRAPHY
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London/ *Tanzania 1959

Visual artist and educator of South Asian descent. His work as an artist and writer interrogates issues about race and cultural difference in relation to Western society. His work includes sculpture, installation, video and performance.

He is currently a lecturer at Central Saint Martins School of Art in London, teaching both in the undergraduate and post graduate departments in the School of Fine Art and Design. He is also a researcher at the University of Westminster in the School of Communication and Creative Industries. He is the co-founder and acting co-ordinator of Panchayat Arts Education Resource Unit, an issue based archive currently held at the Harrow Campus, University of Westminster.

Recent solo exhibitions include the Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna and Art Exchange, Nottingham.

Group exhibitions include Site+Sight, Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore; The Crown Jewels, Kampnagel, Hamburg; Musee Imaginaire, Museum of Installation, London; Ubudoda, Metropolitan Gallery, Cape Town; and two survey shows in New York: "Out of India", Queens Museum and "Transforming The Crown", Bronx Museum.