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.
Described by Laura Cumming in the Observer as “one of our most pensive and poetic artists”, his sculptures give form to the ideas or stories by which we lend meaning to human existence.
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.
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 Saudia 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
Conversations Before The End of Time, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham (2024)
Tanabana, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, UAE (2024) – Sharjah Islamic Arts Festival 25th Edition - Manifestations
Spaces & Places, Aicon Gallery, New York (2023)
Tanabana, Nature More, Delhi (2022)
Tanabana, Aicon Gallery, New York (2021)
Something About Paradise, Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2020)
When The Moon Split, Aicon Gallery, New York (2017)
time | memory | landscape, Gazelli Art House, London (2017) – Catalogue, essays by Professor Martin Kemp and Sarah Coulson
Congregation, Gazelli Art House, London (2014)
In the Remains, Aicon Gallery, New York (2013)
other crescents, other moons, Gazelli Art House, London (2012)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
In the Night, SAMOCA Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (2024)
Drawing Biennial 2024, Drawing Room, London, UK (2024)
The Quran, Aga Khan Centre, London, UK (2023)
Tomorrow’s Tigers, Sotheby’s, London (2022)
Traces, Sage Culture Gallery, Los Angeles (2022)
Living Forgiving Remembering, Kunsthall 3,14, Bergen, Norway (2021)
Drawing Biennial 2021, Drawing Room, London, UK (2021)
Living Forgiving Remembering, Museum Arnhem, Netherlands (2020)
Eye And The Night, Institut des cultures d’Islam, Paris (2019)
Drawing Biennial 2019, Drawing Room, London, UK (2019)
Out of Focus / union, The Farjam Foundation, Dubai (2018)
Totem, Saatchi Gallery, London (2017)
Tread Softly, Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2017)
Everything Exists Now, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2017)
Légère Inquiétude, White Project Gallery, Paris (2014)
Threads, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem (2014)
TECTONIC, Moving Museum, Dubai (2013)
Celeste Prize Show, Centrale Montemartini, Rome (2012)
Bursary Show, Royal British Society of Sculptors, London (2012)
Breeder, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London (2012)
20/12 London Art Now, National Trust Lodge Park, Gloucestershire (2012)
Creative Cities Collection London in 2012, Barbican Exhibition Hall (2012)
Landscape and Memory, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London (2011)
Down to Earth, Gazelli Art House, London (2011)
Disappearing in Yesterday, Aicon Gallery, London (2010)
Between, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London (2010)
Red Mansion Foundation Art Prize Show, London (2010)
Wound, Aicon Gallery, London (2009)
Don’t Raise The Bridge, Lower The River!, Saatchi Gallery, London (2009)
OBsessions, Modern Art Oxford (2008)
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2006)
AWARDS
Frieze & The OWO Sculpture Prize (2023)
SkyArts LANDMARK public art commission (shortlist) (2021)
Arts Council England Award (2020)
Arts Council England Award (2018)
Arts Council England. Research Award (2014)
Celeste Prize, Rome: Sculpture (2012)
Royal British Society of Sculptors Bursary Award (2012)
Lecturis Award, Amsterdam (2011)
The Red Mansion Foundation Prize (2009)
Arts and Humanities Research Council. Postgraduate Award (2008)
RESIDENCIES
BBC 2, School of Saatchi, London (2009)
The International Art Zone, Beijing (2009)
COLLECTIONS
SAMOCA Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Colby Art Museum, Waterville
Alka Bagri Foundation
Leeds Art Gallery
The Farjam Foundation Collection, Dubai
Katara Cultural Village, Qatar
Dipti Mathur Collection, California
Oxford Brookes University, Oxford
Almarkhiya Gallery, Qatar
Boston Consulting Group
Creative Cities Collection, Beijing
Various private collection
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
Frieze & The OWO Prize Winner. ‘Convocation’, Raffles London (2023)
Organ Donation Memorial ‘Gift’, at the Royal London Hospital (2023)
Grizedale Sculpture Park. ‘Flight’ (SkyArts LANDMARK commission) (2021)
Oxford Brookes University, Oxford. ‘Assembly’ (2018)
Nova Victoria, London. ‘Places For Nova’ (LandSec commission) (2017)
EDUCATION
2010 The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. MFA, Painting
2007 Oxford Brookes University. BA Fine Art