Shezad Dawood

Shezad Dawood was born in 1974, in London, England. His artworks reflect his varied cultural heritage, which includes having a Pakistani mother, an Indian father, and an Irish stepmother.

Dawood trained at Central Saint Martins and received his MA degree from the Royal College of Art in 2000, before undertaking a PhD from the School of Arts at Leeds Metropolitan University (now Leeds Beckett University) in 2008 (Fine Art),{{Cite web |last=Westall |first=Mark |date=2022-09-29 |title=Shezad Dawood unveils physical/digital art installation at St Pancras International. |url=https://fadmagazine.com/2022/09/29/shezad-dawood-unviels-physical-digital-art-installation-at-st-pancras-international/ |access-date=2025-01-29 |website=FAD Magazine |language=en-GB}} his thesis was titled 'The killing of Chief Crazy Horse: a metaphorical allegory in 3 parts'. He was a research fellow in experimental media at the University of Westminster.

Dawood works across the disciplines of painting, film, neon, sculpture, performance, virtual reality and other digital media to ask key questions of narrative, history and embodiment.{{Cite web |last=Komunyakaa |first=Yusef |title=Night in the Garden of Love |url=https://4columns.org/komunyakaa-yusef/night-in-the-garden-of-love |access-date=2025-01-29 |website=4columns.org}}{{Cite web |last=Joyce |first=Ella |date=19 May 2023 |title=Shezad Dawood’s new exhibition is an immersive digital jazz garden |url=https://hero-magazine.com/article/232701/shezad-darwood-night-in-the-garden-of-love |access-date=2025-01-29 |website=Hero |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Gronlund |first=Melissa |title=Abu Dhabi sculpture is British artist Shezad Dawood's response to climate crisis |url=https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/art-design/2023/12/07/shezad-dawood-climate-change/ |access-date=2025-01-29 |website=The National |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Trigg |first=David |date=29 January 2024 |title=Shezad Dawood’s Social and Biblical Beasts |url=https://artreview.com/shezad-dawood-leviathan-salisbury-cathedral-review/ |access-date=2025-01-29 |website=Art Review |language=en}}

• Making New Time: Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber, Omar Kholeif (ed.), Prestel, Munich, Germany, 2019. {{ISBN|978-3791358499}}
• Artists' Moving Image in Britain since 1989, Erika Balsam, Lucy Reynolds and Sarah Perks (eds.), Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art; London, 2019. {{ISBN|978-1-913107-01-7}}
• Shezad Dawood: Kalimpong, Camilla Palestra (ed.), Sternberg Press and Timothy Taylor, London, 2016. {{ISBN|978-3-95679-276-2}}
• It was a time that was a time, Gabriel Florenz and David Everitt Howe (eds.). Pioneer Works, New York, 2015. {{ISBN|978-0-9905935-6-0}}
• The Great Acceleration – Taipei Biennial 2014, Jo Hsiao (ed.), Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, 2014. {{ISBN|978-9860444438}}
• Shezad Dawood: Towards the Possible Film, Ziba Ardalan (ed.), Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London, 2014. {{ISBN|9780957351820}}
• Black Sun, Gerrie van Noord (ed.). Ridinghouse in association with Devi Art Foundation and Arnolfini, 2013. {{ISBN|978-1-905464-845}}
• Piercing Brightness, Gerrie van Noord (ed.), Koenig Books, London, 2012. {{ISBN|978-3-86335-146-5}}

• [http://shezaddawood.com/ Official website]

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Category:Alumni of Leeds Beckett University

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