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 and current projects include: Seeds: Containers of a World to Come, Kemper Art Museum, Washington (USA, current); The Plant that Stowed Away, Tate Liverpool, UK (2025); Sunlight on the Sea Floor, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico (MAC), San Juan (2025); 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 II, 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).
His work is held in collections internationally, including The Fitchburg Art Museum, Massachusetts (USA), FRAC Reunion (France), The Government Art Collection (UK), Fondation H, Paris (France), Sharjah Foundation (UAE); and private collections such as Mercedes Vilardell (Spain), A. Sainsbury (UK).
For his most recent solo exhibition with the gallery please click here.
For his most recent group exhibition with the gallery please click here.
Recent and current projects include: Seeds: Containers of a World to Come, Kemper Art Museum, Washington (USA, current); The Plant that Stowed Away, Tate Liverpool, UK (2025); Sunlight on the Sea Floor, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico (MAC), San Juan (2025); 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 II, 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).
His work is held in collections internationally, including The Fitchburg Art Museum, Massachusetts (USA), FRAC Reunion (France), The Government Art Collection (UK), Fondation H, Paris (France), Sharjah Foundation (UAE); and private collections such as Mercedes Vilardell (Spain), A. Sainsbury (UK).
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 view, Shiraz Bayjoo: Rivyer Nwar, Copperfield, London, 2022.
Installation view, Indigo Waves and Other Stories, Gropius Bau, Berlin, 2023.
Installation view, We Are History, Somerset House, London, 2021.
Installation view, Shiraz Bayjoo: Pu Travers Sa Dilo (To cross this water), Casablanca, 2023. Commissioned by Christine Eyene and the British Council.
Politique des Races - Part 3, 2018. Acrylic on wood, resin, Sapele wood frame, brass. 75 x 175 x 3 cm. Installation view, Shiraz Bayjoo: Searching for Libertalia, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, 2019.
Botanical Shrine, 2024. Installation view, Colomboscope: Way of the Forest, Sri Lanka, 2024.
Roots and Vine, 2022. Dye sublimation print on Half Panama woven 100% Cotton with tassel and braided trim. 145 x 200 cm. Installation view from the Venice Biennale 2022: ICF, Diaspora Pavillion II.
Installation view, Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber, UAE, 2019.
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Solo Exhibitions
2025 To Desir, Mo Lamor, Copperfield, London (upcoming) 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 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 2025 Seeds: Containers of a World to Come, Kemper Art Museum, Washington (USA, current) The Plant that Stowed Away, Tate Liverpool, UK What the mountain has seen, John Moores University Gallery, Liverpool, UK Sunlight on the Sea Floor, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico (MAC), San Juan 2024 Sunlight on the Sea Floor, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico (MAC), San Juan 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 |