ABOUT
Shumaiya Khan is an artist, writer, and creative. Born 1990, in Bradford, West Yorkshire to a British Bengali family, before moving to London to pursue higher education where she resides to this day. Khan comes from a design-led background, earning her BA Hons in Design from Goldsmiths, University of London. Although she has always painted, she only fully resumed her art practice in April of 2020. Khan will be studying for her MAFA at City and Guilds London School of Art from Septemeber 2024.
Khan’s practice has always had an element of experimentation with textures and motion within an abstract framework built to engage emotion within her audience. Within her earlier critical theory design work, this has translated into recording statistics in visually fluid, quantifiable, and measurable ways, via the use of ink, ceramics, and plants. Between 2010 to 2019, Khan’s sole focus was her creative & art direction roles within fashion, homeware, and beauty. .
Khan produces contemporary abstract expressionist pieces via the use of oil, acrylic, charcoal, chalk, and poetry across canvas and paper. Pigment is worked and layered into pieces over a series of days or weeks. Different viscosities of pigment are considered, adding dimension and rich texture into the vast worlds, solar systems, and oceans she creates. In juxtaposition to her full-colour works, Khan produces fast-paced, raw canvas and paper pieces. Brush strokes and charcoal lines are created at different paces, some with more initially thought-through intention than others. Khan sees the physicality’s of her visual painting language working towards an ever evolving image in her mind.
Khan’s work is based in emotional and metaphysical storytelling. Her practice explores juxtapositions around dynamic behaviours in the sphere of; the relationship with ourselves, feminine expression & sensuality, societal interaction, morality, innate faith & spirituality. Khan often calls upon the viewers to look inside themselves and ask what they feel. She has stated previously that she is compelled to create, being both a meditative and explorative practice for her. Today she has collectors in the States and South America to Australia, while working on commissions, and collaborations with beauty and fashion industry.
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SELECT EXHIBITIONS / RESIDENCIES / FILM
Featured Artist. The Hoxton Southwark. Blackfriars Road, London. 20th February - May 2024.
Exhibiting artist, Adorn the Common, Chalk Farm, London. 27th February onwards.
Wake Up And Smell The Roses, group show at Firepit Studios. Seasonal resident artist showcase. London, SE10 0TX. March - June 2024
Auction, Terrance Higgins Trust. Christie’s. 15th April 2024.
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Commissioned mural and workshop artist, for Black Chalk wine at The Other Art Fair, London. March 2024
Gold in the Forest, solo via Interrupted Art.
67 Pall Mall, London. September 2023 - 10th March 2024
Fountain of Youth, solo at The Lion and The Fox Salon.
Hatton Wall, London. 15th November 2023 - 9th March 2024.
Perfected Imperfections, group show, collaboration with Kaecen, artistic perfume house. Covent Garden London. 28th October 2023.
Changing Colours, group show at Firepit Studios. Seasonal resident artist showcase. London, SE10 0TX. October 2023 - January 2024
PLURALITY NOW NEW FUTURES, group show, Segolene Py. 198 Contemporary Arts, September 2023
UNMUTE : Artists Stories Heard. Via Interrupted Art. Group show.
Somerset House, London. June 2023.
Resident Artist, Firepit Studios
Residency, Greenwich Peninsula, London. June 2023 - current.
UNARCHIVED, Redchurch Street Studio, Soho House.
Residency. November 2022.
Dreamland, Galeria Azur, Madrid, Spain. Group Show
October - November 2022.
Flux Exhibition, curated by Lisa Grey. London.
June 2022.
Seeing Abstraction, Galeria Azur Madrid, Spain.
May - June 2022.
The Other Art Fair, London.
March 2022
Ajkar by Oitij-Jo, London.
February - March 2022.
HONOURS / PRESS / AWARDS
UNARCHIVED, 2023
Limited podcast series & interviews. c/o Lisa Lutgen.
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‘Soothe’ 2020. Print auction for PCRF, December 2023 via Artists for Watermelons.
Daily Sugar Selected for Abstract Spotlight, Curated by Affordable Art Fair, for Battersea, Autumn Edition via Art Friend.
107 Female Artists You Need To Know in 2023, Curated by Lucy Donovan, girlandgallery.com
Longlist for VOA23
UK & International Emerging Artist Award
Chair Trustee, Oitij-jo 2023
Trustee for Arts.
Featured in the Sunday Times Style ‘Art For Affordability’s Sake’ via Interrupted Art. July 2023
Featured Art, Dawn Part II, 2020, thespaces.com
via Interrupted Art. May 2023
30 Women In The Future London Academy Who Are Making Waves, The Future Academy, March 2023.
99 Future Blup-Chip Artists, 2023 Edition
Award, Curated by Artsed.com
Girl & Gallery, January 2023
Filmed interview, curated by Lucy Donovan
BLUP50 2022-23, July 2022
Selected for cohort, interview. Studio Blup, London.
THE FLUX Review, June 2022
Interview. Curated by Lisa Grey & The FLUX Exhibition
Interrupted Art, May 2022
Interview as Founding Artist for Interrupted Art, London
Sketchbook Sunday, Febuary 2022
Interview for The Other Art Fair, London
Shortlist for VOA21
UK & International Emerging Artist Award
3rd Prize for ‘Temper’,
The Holy Art - Ardour Exhibition 2022.
EDUCATION
MA Fine Art. City and Guilds London School of Art. ‘24-’25
BA Hons Design. Goldsmiths University of London ‘09 - ‘13
Foundation in Art & Design, Leeds College of Art ‘08 - ‘09
TO PURCHASE
Contact regarding the full list of available works, commissions, and studio visits via email.
Shop small works on the site. Selected works Interrupted Art, The Tagli, Artiq and Adorn The Common.