Saad Qureshi Bewal, Pakistan, b.1986
Saad Qureshi received his BA in Fine Art from Oxford Brookes University in 2007 and an MFA in Painting from The Slade School of Fine Art, London, in 2010.
Recent solo exhibitions include the Djanogly Gallery (at Lakeside Arts, Nottingham University); Sharjah Islamic Arts Festival; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield; and Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi. Group exhibitions include the Aga Khan Centre Gallery, London; I'Institut des Cultures d'Islam, Paris; Museum Arnhem, Netherlands; Kunsthall 3,14, Bergen; Drawing Room, London; and White Project Gallery, Paris.
Tower of Now, his flagship commission for Bradford, stands at 15 metres high, transforming the city’s skyline as part of Bradford City of Culture 2025. Winner of The Frieze & The OWO Sculpture Prize, Convocation is on view at Raffles London. Also in 2023, Saad Qureshi was commissioned to realise a permanent Organ Donor Memorial for the Royal London Hospital at Whitechapel. He was shortlisted for the 2021 SkyArts LANDMARKS public art prize, and has realised public commissions at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford and for LandSec at Victoria, London.
His work has been acquired by public collections including the Dipti Mathur Collection, California; The Farjam Foundation Collection, Dubai; the UNESCO Creative Cities Collection, Beijing; The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi; the Bagri Collection, London; the Almarkhiya Gallery, Qatar; and the Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art (SAMoCA), as well as private collections around the world. Saad Qureshi is a Trustee of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. He features in Thames & Hudson’s 100 Sculptors of Tomorrow.
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2024
A Handful of Paradise, I DE V / l’étrangère, London, UK
Of Paradise and Other Places, HS Projects, London, UK
Conversations Before The End of Time, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, UK
Tanabana, Sharjah Islamic Arts Festival 25th Edition - Manifestations, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, UAE
2023
Spaces & Places, Aicon Gallery, New York, USA
2022
Tanabana, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India
2021
Tanabana, Aicon Gallery, New York, USA
2020
Something About Paradise, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK
2017
When The Moon Split, Aicon Gallery, New York, USA
time | memory | landscape, Gazelli Art House, London, UK
2014
Congregation, Gazelli Art House, London, UK
2013
In the remains, Aicon Gallery, New York, USA
2012
Other crescents, other moons, Gazelli Art House, London, UK
Group Exhibitions
2024
In the Night, SAMoCA Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2023
The Quran, Aga Khan Centre, London, UK
2022
Tomorrow's Tigers, Sotheby's, London, UK
Traces, Sage Culture Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2021
Drawing Biennial 2021, Drawing Room, London, UK
Living Forgiving Remembering, Kunsthall 3,14, Bergen, Norway
2020
Living Forgiving Remembering, Museum Arnhem, Netherlands
2019
L'œil et la nuit, L’Institut des cultures d’Islam, Paris, France
Drawing Biennial 2019, Drawing Room, London, UK
A Language of Forms, Exhibit 320, New Delhi, India
2018
Tread Softly, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK
Cure3 (curated by Artwise for Cure Parkinson’s Trust), Bonhams, London, UK
Terra, Gazelli Art House, Baku, Azerbaijan
Mindscapes, Bo.Lee Gallery, London, UK
Out of Focus / union, The Farjam Foundation, Dubai
2017
Totem, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Everything exists now, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK
Threads, Museum Arnhem, Netherlands
2014
Légère Inquiétude (curated by Pascale Krief), White Project Gallery, Paris, France
2013
Celeste Prize Show, Museum Centrale Montemartini, Rome, Italy
TECTONIC, Moving Museum, Dubai
Ruins, ArtEco Gallery, London, UK
2012
Bursary Aware Exhibition, Royal Society of Sculptors, London, UK
20/12 London Art Now, National Trust Lodge Park, Gloucestershire, UK
Breeder, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London, UK
Creative Cities Collection London in 2012, Barbican Centre, London, UK
This is London, Shizaru Mayfair, London, UK
the open west, Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester, UK
2011
Landscape and Memory, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London, UK
Down to Earth, Gazelli Art House London, UK
2010
Red Mansion Foundation Art Prize Show, London, UK
Disappearing in Yesterday, Aicon Gallery, London, UK
Between, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London, UK
Deceit, Hackney Wicked Festival, London, UK
2009
Don’t Raise The Bridge, Lower The River!, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Wound, Aicon Gallery, London, UK
Systems and Patterns, Westbourne Studios, London, UK
2008
Obsessions, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK
2007
thirst*, Beldam Gallery, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
spark, Fireplace Gallery, Oxford, UK
2006
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Awards
2023
Frieze & The OWO sculpture prize, London
2021
SkyArts LANDMARKS public art commission (shortlist)
2012
Celeste Prize, Rome
2011
Royal British Society of Sculptors Bursary Award, London
Lecturis Award, Amsterdam (shortlist)
2009
Red Mansion Foundation Prize, Beijing/ London
The artist is grateful to the Arts Council of England for supporting his practice with several awards.