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Shiraz Bayjoo is a multi-disciplinary artist who works with film, painting, photography, performance, and installation. His research-based practice focuses on addressing cultural memory, postcolonial nationhood, and the exploration of identity and histories in a manner that challenges dominant cultural narratives through the use of photographs and artefacts stored in public and personal archives. Through investigating the legacy of European colonialism, the work explores the complex histories and relationships of migration and trade, and enquires into the challenge of authoring collective identity in the post-colonial world.
Recent projects include: Seeds and Souls, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark (2024); Colomboscope: Way of the Forest, Colombo, Sri Lanka (2024); Whitechapel gallery, Permanent public art installation (2023); Indigo Waves and Other Stories: Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora, Zeitz Mocaa, Cape Town (2022) and Gropius Bau, Berlin (2023); Civitella Ranieri artist residency, Italy (2023); Sharjah Biennial, UAE (2022); ICF, Diaspora Pavilion 2, Venice Biennial, Italy (2022); and Ngaay - Konesans duo show with Brook Andrew, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea (2022). He has been awarded the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, USA (2022) and has participated in residencies at Delfina Foundation (2021), Atlas Arts (2019), Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales (2018); Monash University, Melbourne (2018) and Clarke House, Mumbai (2017). For his most recent solo exhibition with the gallery please click here. For his most recent group exhibition with the gallery please click here. |
Installation, Shiraz Bayjoo: Rivyer Nwar, Copperfield, London, UK
Installation, Shiraz Bayjoo: Rivyer Nwar, Copperfield, London, UK
Installation, Shiraz Bayjoo: Rivyer Nwar, Copperfield, London, UK
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Whitechapel Gallery, Permanent public art installation, London, UK 2022 Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, UAE ICF, Diaspora Pavilion 2, Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy Shiraz Bayjoo: Rivyer Nwar, Copperfield, London, UK 2022 ICF, Diaspora Pavilion 2, Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy Shiraz Bayjoo: Rivyer Nwar, Copperfield, London, UK 2021 Lo Sa Later Ruz, Fondation H Paris, France 2020 It is the sea that connects us, 12 Gates Art, Philadelphia, USA 2019 Searching for Libertalia, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK 2018 1:54 African art fair Lounge commission, Somerset House, London, UK 2017 Surface to Horizon, Clarke House, Mumbai, India 2016 Ile de France, ICAIO, British Council, Mauritius Rome being the center, Arte Operativa, Rome, Italy 2015 Ile de France, SAW Video, Canada A land of extraordinary quarantines, Greenlease gallery, Kansas City, Kansas, USA Ile de France, 198 Gallery, London, UK 2013 Bayjoo + Vandy, London Newcastle project space, London, UK 2010/11 Whitechapel Gallery Artist in Residence, London, UK 2009 Workforce: Artist Shiraz Bayjoo employs the public, INIVA, London, UK Group Exhibitions 2024 Murmuration, The Bowes Museum, Durham, UK Silent Archives, Inverleith House, Royal Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh, UK Colomboscope: Way of the Forest, Colombo, Sri Lanka Seeds and Souls, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark 2023 Seeds and Souls, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark Thinking Historically in the Present, Sharjah Biennial 15, Sharjah, UAE, curated by Sharjah Art Foundation, directed by Hoor Al Qasimi Ngaay – Konesans, Gylnn Vivian Gallery, Swansea, Wales Indigo Waves and Other Waves: Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora, Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany In and Out of Time, Gallery 1957, Accra, Ghana 2022 Ngaay- Konesans, Glynn Vivian gallery, Swansea, UK Indigo Waves & Other Stories: Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora, Zeitz Mocaa, Cape Town, South Africa 2021 AORA: V, AORA Virtual Museum, London, UK Archives of Disruption and Repair, Neue Galerie Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria We Are History, Somerset House, London, UK Constance Ari, MONA, Tasmania Here be dragons a reprise, Copperfield gallery, London, UK 2020 Photo London Who is Gazing, Musée du Quai Branly, Jacques Chirac, Paris, France 5Th Dhaka Art Summit: Seismic Movements, Bangladesh Indian Ocean Current, McMullen Museum, Boston, USA 2019 A Language of Form, Exhibit 320, New Delhi, India A Plot for the Multiverse, Indigo +Madder, London, UK Pran Kouraz, Art Night London, UK 52 Artists 52 Actions, Artspace Sydney, Australia 14th Biennale of Sharjah, UAE 2018 4th Biennale de Casablanca, Morocco Common Third, Copperfield Gallery, London, UK Representation Remembrance and the Memorial, Monash University, Australia 13th Biennale de Dakar, Senegal 21st Biennale of Sydney, Australia Ephemeral Coasts, Glyyn Vivian Art Gallery, Wales 2017 Ed Cross Fine Art, London Art Fair, London, UK FRAC, Reunion Island, France 2016 Edge Effects, Mauritius (2016); The Averard Hotel, London, UK 2015 Multiplied Art Fair, Christies, London, UK Homelands, Artsadmin, London, UK Ile de France research residency and exhibition, INIVA, London, UK 2014 Partage, French Institute, Mauritius Interchange Junctions with Yinka Shonibare, London, UK 2013 Oakley Project Space, London, UK Multiplied Art Fair, Christies, London, UK 2010 Illuminating Cultures, Tate Britain, London, UK 2009 Off the Map, INIVA, Rivington St, London, UK 2001 New Contemporaries, St. David’s, Cardiff, Wales Collections The Fitchburg Art Museum, Massachusetts, USA FRAC Reunion, France The Government Art Collection, UK Fondation H, Paris, France Sharjah Foundation, UAE Private collections include Touria El Glaoui, London, UK; New York, USA; Marrakech, Morocco Mercedes Vilardell, Spain S. Davídsdóttir, UK A. Sainsbury, UK |