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Born in Birmingham, Idris Khan creates works inspired by a multitude of cultural sources. He often draws from history, religion, music, and philosophy to craft a uniquely abstract narrative that is grounded in his meditations on time. These layered works are representative of Khan’s exploration of memory and creativity. They also address the continuous process of creating and adding new layers, something that has always been central to Khan’s...
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Born in Birmingham, Idris Khan creates works inspired by a multitude of cultural sources. He often draws from history, religion, music, and philosophy to craft a uniquely abstract narrative that is grounded in his meditations on time. These layered works are representative of Khan’s exploration of memory and creativity. They also address the continuous process of creating and adding new layers, something that has always been central to Khan’s artistic practice.
While Khan’s early works are notable for their repurposing of cultural artefacts, his more recent works draw from his own writings in response to art historical, philosophical, and religious texts. These works feature printed texts stamped over sculptures, wall drawings, and paintings resulting in a distinctly handmade effect compared to his previous digital, photographic pieces.
Khan’s oeuvre has expanded to include sculptures created using steel plates, cubes, and stone slabs which Khan sandblasts with musical scores or prayers in a continuation of his exploration of the way visual, cinematic, and temporal memories combine to form a dense whole. Throughout his prolific career Khan has retained an elegantly saturated aesthetic which alludes to the excess of information in this technical age while also encouraging a slower way of looking at our shared history and culture.
The artist has been completed several commissions for public sculptures and installations, including a wall drawing that he created for the British Museum’s exhibition Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam, as well as the massive floor sculpture, Seven Times, which was installed in the museum’s majestic Great Court. That same year, he was commissioned by The New York Times magazine to create a new body of work that was published in their London issue. Khan was also commissioned by the United Arab Emirates to design the Wahat Al Karama, a war memorial monument in Abu Dhabi, which was unveiled in 2016 and for which the artist won American Architecture Prize the following year. In 2017, he was awarded an OBE for services to art as part of the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. The following year, Khan was commissioned to create the British Museum’s first site-specific artworks as part of the new Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic World.
Khan has had several solo exhibitions globally, including at The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall; Whitworth Gallery, University of Manchester; the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto; K20, Dusseldorf; and Goeteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg. He has also been a part of numerous group exhibitions, including ones at the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate Britain, Hayward Gallery and The Saatchi Gallery in London; Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris; Baibakov Art Projects, Moscow; the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Helsinki Kunsthalle, Helsinki; Galerie Isa, Mumbai; and many more. His work is in the permanent collections of many institutions worldwide such as The Saatchi Collection, London; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv; the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; the de Young Museum, San Francisco; and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
Khan lives and works in London, UK.
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Born
1978
Education
• 2004 MFA Royal College of Art, London
• 2000 BA Photography The University of Derby, Derby
• 1998 BTEC National Diploma Foundation in Art and Design, Walsall College of Art and Technology, Walsall
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
• 2020 ADAA: The Art Show, Sean Kelly,...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
• 2020 ADAA: The Art Show, Sean Kelly, New York
• 2020 MoCa Westport, Connecticut, USA 2019
• 2020 Words Beneath Words, Victoria Miro, Venice
• 2019 Idris Khan & Annie Morris, Galerie Isa, Mumbai
• 2019 Blue Rhythms, Sean Kelly, New York
• 2017 Idris Khan, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin
• 2017 Idris Khan: Absorbing Light, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
• 2017 A World Within, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall
• 2017 Re-Imaginings, Idris Khan & Annie Morris, Galerie Isa, Mumbai,
• 2017 Seven Times, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin
• 2016 The Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester, Manchester
• 2016 Rhythm, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin
• 2015 Overture, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
• 2015 Conflicting Lines, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
• 2013 Beyond the Black, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
• 2013 Beginning at the End, Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai
• 2012 The Devil’s Wall, The Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester, Manchester
• 2012 Photographs and Drawings, Thomas Schulte Gallery, Berlin
• 2012 Idris Khan, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
• 2011 Contrary Motion, Göteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden
• 2011 Devil’s Wall, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York
• 2009 Be Lost in the Call, Elementa, Dubai
• 2009 Kunsthaus Muerz, Mürzzuschlag, Austria
• 2009 Silent Writings, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris
• 2009 Still Revolution: Suspended in Time, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto
• 2008 Every…, K20, Dusseldorf
• 2008 Fragile, 9 Howick Place, London
• 2007 Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York
• 2007 Thomas Schulte Galerie, Berlin, Germany
• 2006 A Memory After Bach’s Cello Suites, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris
• 2006 Victoria Miro Gallery, London
• 2006 A Memory After Bach’s Cello Suites, inIVA, London
• 2006 Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
• 2001 Future Focus, The Q Gallery, Derby
• 2000 Courts, The City Gallery, Leicester
Selected Group Exhibitions
• 2020 Beethoven Moves, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
• 2020 Human Touch, Fine Cell Work, Sothebys, London
• 2020 Time Present – Photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection, Palais Populaire, Berlin
• 2019 Alterations Activation Abstraction, Sundaram Tagore, New York
• 2019 Seismography of the Soul: A project by Laurent Grasso, TEFAF New York Spring, Park Avenue Armory, New York
• 2018 THE MATTER IN HARMONY, Thomas Schulte Galerie, Berlin
• 2018 Actions. The Image of the World can be Different., Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
• 2017 Armory Show, Galerie Thomas Schulte, New York
• 2017 Legacies: JMW Turner and contemporary art practice, New Art Gallery, Walsall
• 2017 Dissolution of Distance, Pelaires Gallery, Mallorca
• 2017 From Selfie to Self-Expression, Saatchi Gallery, London
• 2017 Second Nature, organised by the K11 Art Foundation, Chi Art Space, Hong Kong
• 2017 Selected, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
• 2016 Ludwig Van: The Beethoven Myth, Cité de la Musique, Paris
• 2016 Memory of the Future, Musée de L'Elysée, Lausanne
• 2015 In and Out of Time, Galerie Isa, Mumbai
• 2015 By the Book, Sean Kelly, New York
• 2015 The Dimension of Civilisation, Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art, Yinchuan
• 2015 The Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs, National Gallery of Art, Washington
• 2014 Under Erasure, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
• 2014 One Way: Peter Marino, Bass Museum of Art, Miami
• 2014 The Plot Thickens, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
• 2013 TIME, Bas Museum, Miami
• 2013 Slow: Marking Time in Photography and Film, MOCA, Jacksonville
• 2013 The Unphotographable, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
• 2012 Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam, British Museum, London
• 2012 I Wish This Was A Song. Music in Contemporary Art, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo
• 2012 RESISTANCE. Subverting the Camera, The Fine Art Society, London
• 2012 Du spirituel dans l’art actuel, Espace Sevigne, Paris
• 2012 Moments of Reprieve, Paradise Row, London
• 2011 Untitled, Lustwarande ´11 - Raw, De Oude Warande, Tilburg
• 2010 Art of Ideas Presents: The Witching Hour, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham
• 2010 Newspeak: British Art Now Part II, The Saatchi Gallery, London
• 2010 No New Thing Under the Sun, Royal Academy, London
• 2010 Haunted, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao
• 2009 Still Revolution: Suspended in Time, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto
• 2009 Taswir - Pictorial Mappings of Islam and Modernity, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
• 2009 The Collection, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
• 2009 Silent Writings, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris
• 2008 Order from Chaos: Ori Gersh / Idris Khan / Boo Ritson, CAF - Andalusian Center of Photography, Andalusia
• 2008 Bookish – When books become art, Lewis Glucksman Gallery
• 2008 Yours, Mine, Ours, University Gallery, University of Essex, Colchester
• 2007 Mario Testino at Home (curated by Mario Testino), Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York
• 2007 All Tomorrow’s Pictures, ICA, London
• 2007 Artprojx, Tate Britain, London
• 2006 Imposing Order: Contemporary Photography and the Archive, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
• 2005 Something of the Night, Leeds City Gallery, Leeds
• 2005 Andmoreagain, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
• 2005 To be continued… , Helsinki Kunsthalle, Helsinki
• 2005 Regeneration – 50 Photographers of Tomorrow, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne
• 2004 Project Space: ‘The Truth Society,’ Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland Arrivals, Pump House Gallery, Battersea, London
• 2003 Another Way Is Possible, Royal College of Art, London
Participations
• 2019 India Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
• 2018 Summer Exhibition 2018, Royal Academy of Art, London
• 2008 A Memory After Bach’s Cello Suites, KunstFilm Biennale, Cologne
Honours and Awards
• 2018 CODA Award 2018 World Architecture News Awards 2018
• 2017 Order of the British Empire for services to Art (Queen’s Birthday Honours List)
• 2018 CODA Award 2018 World Architecture News Awards 2018
• 2017 Order of the British Empire for services to Art (Queen’s Birthday Honours List)
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