Shez Dawood
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2000-2003
Royal College of Art MPhil Fine Art (Photography)
Thesis: 'Cowboys & Indians - Duality & Difference in the contemporary empire of signs'
1998-2000
Royal College of Art
MA Fine Art (Photography)
1994-1997
Central St Martin's College of Art & Design
BA (Hons) 1st Class : Critical Fine Art Practise
Solo Shows
2003
'Shrine' - 1,000,000 mph, Old Bethnal Green Road, London E2
2002
'Multiplicity' - Osterwalder's Art Office, Hamburg.
'Shez 360'' - Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham
2000
'Karma Cola' - Osterwalder's Art Office, Hamburg, & Tablet, Tabernacle, London W11
Group Shows
2002
'Indians & Cowboys' - Gallery 4a, Sydney, Australia
'Presence' - Leighton House Museum, 12 Holland Park Road, London W14
'Chockerfuckingblocked' - Jeffrey Charles Gallery, 34 Settles St., London E1
'Message to India' - New Delhi, Mumbai & travelling, organised by the British Council, India.
'More Loving' - 323 Old St., London N1
Neon Gallery, Commercial St., London E1
'Site + Sight' - Earl-Lu Gallery, Singapore
'Ausgang' - Studio Voltaire, 1A Nelson's Row, London SW4
'Location:UK' - Gimpel Fils, Davies Street, London W1
''Fame & Promise' - 14 Wharf Road, London N1
2001
'Century City' - Tate Modern, London SE1
'The Tender Trap' - 15c St. Charles Sq., London W10
'Camouflage' - Nehru Centre, Indian High Commission, 8 South Audley Street, London W1, curated by Arshiya Lokhandwala, with talks by Hans-Ulrich Obrist & Sarat Maharaj.
'selbst | porträt' - Schloss Agathenburg, Agathenburg, Germany.
2000
'Crush' - Hoax, 8/9 Hoxton Square, London N1
'Loving' - 25c Marylands Road, London W9.
'Point of View' - Richard Salmon Gallery, London W8
'HOAX @ Lux', Lux Centre, 2-4 Hoxton Square, London N1
'Through A Glass Darkly' - Künstlerhaus Mösentürm, Frankfurt
1999
'000zerozerozero' - Whitechapel Art Gallery, London E1
'Crown Jewels' - Kampnagel (K3) Hamburg and NGBK (Neue Gesselschaft der Bildende Kunst) Berlin, with the support of the British Council
Off-Site/Public Projects
2002
'Aar Paar 2' - Poster Project, simultaneously in Karachi, Pakistan & Mumbai, India.
2001
'Project Wax', show and auction for Cancer Research at the Metropolitan Hotel, London W1, featuring Mona Hatoum, Keith Tyson, Bob & Roberta Smith amongst others.
'art tube 01' - Piccadilly Line, London Underground, featuring Damien Hirst, Gavin Turk, Vivienne Westwood, Yoko Ono & others.
2000
'Rocky Mountains & Tired Indians' - Commission for the Royal College of Art Façade, sponsored by Playmobil gmbh.
'Tower Hamlets Billboard Project' - in association with the Whitechapel Art Gallery and the Millennium Commission
Work Experience
2003
Visiting Lecturer
University of Westminster,
Mixed Media Art BA.
2001-2002
Contributing Editor/Writer
Stealth Magazine.
1999
Fabrica, Benetton, Treviso, Italy (with Oliviero Toscani).
1995-1999
London Editor,
aRUDE magazine (New York).
Press
Works have been reproduced in Art Monthly, Chandigarh Times, Creative Review, the FACE, the Guardian Weekend, Kunstforum, & Die Welt amongst others.
A documentary on the artist's advertising-inspired works was screened on E4, June 2001, introduced by David Bowie. The artist has also been interviewed on MTV & for the Open University.
Works are in a number of public & private collections.
Forthcoming
A specially commissioned jewellery piece for 'Intervention' at the John Hansard Gallery in Southampton, in September. And a public project for the main train station in Hamburg for March 2004. Plus a residency and solo project in Melbourne, Australia in late 2004.