SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
Encroachments
New Art Exchange, Nottingham, United Kingdom

2019
Leviathan
The Bluecoat, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Leviathan
Kunstverein Munich, Munich, Germany

Encroachments in Leaving the Echo Chamber
Sharjah Biennial 14, Sarjah, United Arab Emirates

2018
Leviathan
MOSTYN, Llandudno, Wales, United Kingdom

Leviathan: On Sunspots and Whales
Barakat Contemporary, Seoul, Korea

A Lost Future: Shezad Dawood
Rubin Museum of Art, New York, New York

Leviathan: Memories of the Future Pt. 2
HE.RO, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Leviatan
A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Leviathan
The Atlantic Project and Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth, United Kingdom

Shezad Dawood. Leviathan Cycle, Episode 1: Ben
New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery, University of Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom

2017
Leviathan
Palazzina Canonica and Fortuny Factory, Venice, Italy

2016
Shezad Dawood: Why depend on Space and Time
Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey

Shezad Dawood: Kalimpong
Timothy Taylor, London, United Kingdom

Anarchitecture
Jane Lombard Gallery, New York, New York

2015
It was a time that was a time
Pioneer Works, New York, New York

The Room, Fig-2
ICA, London, United Kingdom

The Double Life of Arthur Schnitzler
Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Towards The Possible Film
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, United Kingdom

2014
Towards The Possible Film
Parasol Unit, London, United Kingdom

Towards the Possible Film
Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, United Kingdom

The Anthropology of Chance
OCAT, Xi’an, China

Towards The Centre. Once More, Sadler’s Wells & Tate Visual Art Commission
Sadler’s Wells, London, United Kingdom

2013
Wolf Panel
Paradise Row, London, United Kingdom

Piercing Brightness
KINOKINO, Sandnes, Norway

Trailer
Art in General, New York, New York

2012
Parasolstice—Winter Light, including a special performance of Shezad Dawood
Parasol Unit, London, United Kingdom

Project II with experimental music duo Praed
Parasol Unit, London, United Kingdom

Piercing Brightness
Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange, Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Piercing Brightness
Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Cosmic Beach
Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2011
New Dream Machine Project
L’Appartement22, Rabat, Morocco

Piercing Brightness
Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, United Kingdom

2010
A Mystery Play
Plug in ICA, Winnipeg, Canada

The Jewels of Aptor
Paradise Row, London, United Kingdom

Cities of the Future
Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India

Intensive Surfaces
Arhus Kunstbygning, Arhus, Denmark

2009
I Knew I Should Have Taken that Right Turn at Albuquerque
Washington Garcia, Glasgow, United Kingdom

MONTANA
Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2008
Feature: Architecture
East Side Projects, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Journey to the End of the Night
Galleria Riccardo Crespi, Milano, Italy

Until the End of the World
The Third Line, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2007
If I Should Fall From Grace With God
Paradise Row, London, United Kingdom

The End of Civilisation
Axel Lapp Projects, Berlin, Germany

2006
Shezad Dawood & Friends
Artists’ Studio, London, United Kingdom

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
Sharjah Biennale 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber
Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Leviathan: The Cod Trap
Toronto Biennale of Art, Toronto, Canada

University of NonDualism
Frieze LIVE, London, United Kingdom

The Aerodrome—An exhibition dedicated to the memory of Michael Stanley
Ikon, Birmingham, United Kingdom

2018
Projections
A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Gwangju Biennale 2018
Asia Culture Center, Gwanju, South Korea

Rendez-vous with Frans Hals
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands

Lahore Biennale 01
Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan

IDEAL-TYPES
HE.RO by Maurits Hertzberger and Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Delfina in SongEun: Power play
SongEun ArtSpace, Seoul, Korea

HUMAN/DIGITAL: a symbiotic love affair Digital, Post Internet and Virtual Reality from the Brown Family Collection
Kunsthal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2017
I Want! I Want!: Art & Technology
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Recent Acquisitions – Recent Developments
Si Shang Art Museum, Beijing, China

Drawing Biennial 2017
Drawing Room, London, United Kingdom

Mementos: Artists’ Souvenirs, Artefacts, and other Curiosities
Art Brussels, Tour & Taxis, Brussels, Belgium

Thinking Tantra
Peninsula Arts, Plymouth, United Kingdom

THEATRE DE L’ABSURDE
Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2016
A Rotation of Six Video Works by Six International Artists from Collection (Anonymous)
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado

The Universe and Art
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Neon: The Charged Line
Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, United Kingdom

2015
Vienna Biennale, Future Light, curated by Maria Lind
Angewandte Kunst (MAK) and Kunsthalle, Wien, Vienna

Doris Duke’s Shangri La: Architecture, Landscape, and Islamic Art
Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii

Untitled, 7th Moscow Biennale
Own Land/Foreign Territory, Manege, Moscow, Russia

2014
Blow up
Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria

Blow up
C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Sous nos yeux
MACBA, Barcelona, Spain

Where are we now?
Marrakech Biennale 5, Marrakech, Morocco

Eastwing Biennial. INTERACT: Deconstructing Spectatorship
Courtauld Institute, London, United Kingdom

Thread
MMKA, Arnhem Museum, The Netherlands

Moving Images
Art Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

The Great Acceleration – Taipei Biennial 2014
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

Blow-Up
Photo Museum, Winterthur, Germany

Conflict and Compassion, 3rd Asia Triennial Manchester
IWM North, Manchester, United Kingdom

/Seconds
Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

2013
Doris Duke’s Shangri La: Architecture, Landscape and Islamic Art, Touring Exhibition
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida

The World Turned Inside Out
Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Shakti
Kedleston Hall, Derby, United Kingdom

I Appear Missing
Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Black Sun
Devi Art Foundation, Delhi, India

I Look to You and I See Nothing
Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Sous nos yeux
La Kunsthalle, Mulhouse, France

Open Heart Surgery
The Moving Museum, London, United Kingdom

2012
Speak Nearby
Whitstable, Biennale, United Kingdom

Lost in Paradise: Du spiritual dans l’art actuel
Loft Sévigné, Paris, France

Videonale 13 on tour
IZOLYATSIA Art Centre, Donetsk, Ukraine

Drawings
Paradise Row, London, United Kingdom

2011
Videonale: Dialogue in Contemporary Video Art
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

How I Learned To Stop Fearing and Love the Exotic Art
Art Life Lounge, JAMM Foundation, No city, Kuwait

Generation in Transition
Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland

Videonale
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn & BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Bonn, Germany

Videonale
Katowice The Pavement and the Beach, Paradise Row, London, United Kingdom

AS THE WORLD TURNS: New Art From London
Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2010
Illuminations (After Arthur Rimbaud)
Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery, New York, New York

Living in Evolution
Busan Biennale, Busan, South Korea

Rude Britannia: British Comic Art
Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom

Grand National
Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen, Norway

Dawnbreakers
John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

Wonderland: New Art from London
Assab One, Milan, Italy

The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today
Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2009
Disorientation II
Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Untitled
AiM International Biennale 3rd Edition, Marrakech, Morocco

The Artist’s Studio
Compton Verney, Warwickshire, United Kingdom

Making Worlds
The 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

Natural Wonders: New Art from London
Baibakov Art Projects, Moscow, Russia

Altermodern: Tate Triennial
Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom

Untold: The Rise of Schisms (Indian Popular Culture and Beyond)
Sala de Exposiciones Alcala 31, Madrid, Spain

2008
Indian Highway, in collaboration with Mukul Deora
Serpentine Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Lightness of Being
Initial Access, The Frank Cohen Collection, London, United Kingdom

ReAsia
HKW, Berlin, Germany

2007
Hobbyhorse
Arndt & Partner, Zurich, Switzerland

2006
Bubble & Squeak
PM Gallery, Toronto, Canada

East Wing Collection
Courtauld Institute, London, United Kingdom

2005
Yabba Dabba Do
Cell Project Space, with Hilary Koob-Sassen, London, United Kingdom

London in Six Easy Steps
ICA, London, United Kingdom

Go Between
Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria

We Have Met the Enemy & He Is Us
Redux, London, United Kingdom

2003
Indians & Cowboys
Gallery 4a, Sydney, Australia

2002
Site + Sight, Earl-Lu Gallery, Singapore
Ausgang, Studio Voltaire, London, UK

2001
Century City, Tate Modern, London, UK
Selbst | porträt, Schloss Agathenburg, Agathenburg, Germany

2000
Through A Glass Darkly, Kunstlerhaus Mösentürm, Frankfurt, Germany

1999
000zerozerozero, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK

2008
Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, England
PhD Fine Art

2003
Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom
MPhil Fine Art- Photography

2000
Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom
MA Fine Art-Photography

1997
Central St. Martin’s College of Art & Design, London, United Kingdom
BA Critical Fine Art Practice

Abraaj Capital Art, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington

The British Museum, London, United Kingdom

Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, India

Harris Museum, Preston, United Kingdom

LACMA, Los Angeles, California

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

Si Shang Art Museum, Beijing, China

Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom

UBS Art Gallery, New York, New York

2015
Winner, Best Artist Film Award, Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, England

2012
Shortlisted, Jarman Award, London, United Kingdom

2011
Winner, Abraaj Capital Art Prize, ArteEast, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2007
Winner, LAFVA Award, Film London, London, United Kingdom