CV
 

Shimul Saha 

 

+8801712634777

shimul.saha715@gmail.com

dhakada715@yahoo.com

 

 33, 33/1 Green Mart, 

1st Floor, Space # 208-210 

Green Road, Dhaka – 1205  

 

             Solo Exhibition

2013 – Tangible & Intangible, Britto Space, Dhaka.

 

            Group Exhibition

2022 –   Documenta Fifteen, Kassel

2022 –  Jakarta Biennale 2021, Jakarta

2021Brihatta Home Art Project 2020, Dhaka

2020 – India Art Fair, New Delhi.

2019 – Look, Stranger! Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa.

2019 – Recalling, Beauty Boarding, Old Dhaka, Dhaka.

2019 – 23rd National Art Exhibition, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka.

2019 – India Art Fair, New Delhi.

2018 – (Dis)Place, Korean Cultural Centre. New Delhi. 

2018 – Taiwan Annual, Association of the Visual Arts in Taipei (AVAT), Taipei, Taiwan.

2018 – SHOHORNAMA, Topography of Mirror Cities, Daily Star-Bengal Arts    Precinct, Dhaka.

2017 – UNSEEN Photo Fair, CO – OP, Amsterdam.

2016 – 17th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka.

2016 – Photo Kathmandu, Patan, Nepal.

2016 – 20th Young Artists’ Art Exhibition, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka.

2016 – Identity of Space, an open studio of residency outcome, TIFA, Pune.

2016 – Fragments of the Anthropocene, a two person show at Bengal Art Lounge, Dhaka.

2016 – Samdani Art Award Show, Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka.

2015 – 1mile² Dhaka, a project exhibition at Juming Museum, Taipei.

2015 – 21st National Art Exhibition, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka.

2015 – Sculpting With Light, Chobi Mela VIII, Dhaka.

2015 – 1mile² Dhaka, Britto Arts Trust, Dhaka.

2014 – 19th Young Artists’ Art Exhibition, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka.

2014 – Cross Casting, BRITTO SPACE a contemporary art hub, Dhaka.

2013 – The 2nd National Photographic Art Exhibition, Photographic Art Society of Pakistan, Al-Hamra Art Gallery, Lahore.

2012 – 15th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka.

2012 – Make A Forest, Workshop and Exhibition at BRITTO SPACE- a contemporary art hub, Dhaka.

2011 – i ≠ i, Group Art Exhibition, Nairang Galleries, Lahore.

2011 – Dialog One, Group Art Exhibition, Al-Hamra Art Gallery, Lahore.

2010 – Categorical Inaccuracy, VM Art Gallery, VASL Artists’ Collective, Karachi.

2010 – 17th Young Artists’ Art Exhibition, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka.

2009 – 18th National Art Exhibition, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka.

2009 – Sand Sculpture Exhibition & Festival at Cox’s Bazar, Green World, Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation & Department of Sculpture, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka.

2009 – Outcome Exhibition of Raku Workshop, Britto Arts Trust & Department of Sculpture, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka. 

2009 – Across the Road, Open Studio of Video Art Workshop, Britto Arts Trust, Dhaka.

2008 – 16th Young Artists’ Art Exhibition, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka.

2008 –  Six Artists’ Group Art Exhibition, Zainul Gallery, Dhaka.

2008 – Egg Tempara, Outcome Exhibition of Painting Workshop, Zainul Gallery, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka.

2008 – Outcome Exhibition of Raku Workshop, Zainul Gallery, Britto Arts Trust, Dhaka.

2008 – Extended Vision, Video Art Workshop & Open Studio, Britto Arts Trust, Dhaka.

2007 – 17th National Art Exhibition, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka.

 

               Curatorial Project 

Curator –   Echo, 2022, Dhaka

Co-Curator – Lost Never Lost, 2019. 

Curator - Past Doesn’t Have Any Vanishing Point, 2018, Delhi.

Co-curator - State of Affairs, 2018, Dhaka.

Curator - Pixelation V & VI, 2017, Dhaka.

Assistant curator - Chobi Mela IX,2017, Dhaka.

Assistant curator - Chobi Mela VIII, 2015, Dhaka.

Assistant curator - Performance and Experimental Film project at 2nd edition of Dhaka Art Summit, 2014, Dhaka.

 

             Workshop

2015 – Sculpting With Light, Conducted by Artist Mahbubur Rahman 

2011 – Workshop on Curating, Conducted by Kathrin Becker, Berlin 

2009 – Raku Workshop, Organized by Britto Arts Trust

2009 – Video Art Workshop, Organized by Britto Arts Trust

2008 – Raku Workshop, Organized by Britto Arts Trust

2008 – Video Art Workshop, Organized by Britto Arts Trust

2008 – Painting Workshop (Egg Tempara), Conducted by Artist Shahid Kabir

2008 – Stephanie Quayle Workshop, Organized by British Council

2007 – Raku Workshop, Conducted by Artist Mahbubur Rahman

 

              Residency  

2018 – CICA (Curatorial Intensive South Asia), KHOJ International Artists Association, Delhi.

2016 – Photo Kathmandu Mixed Media Artist Residency.

2016 – Artel, 2016, TIFA, Pune.

2015 – Selected in a competitive process for Whitechapel Gallery / British   Council Residency. Devised the concept for a collaborative workshop for 12 students in London.

2014 – Sandwich Residency Program, SANDWICH, Kyoto.

2010 – Taaza Tareen VI, VASL Artists’ Collective, Karachi.

 

             Award & Grant

2020 – Brihatta Home Art Project, Brihatta Art Foundation, Dhaka.

2015 – Honorable Mention, 21st National Art Exhibition, Organized by Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka.

 

              Academic Qualification

MAADS (MA in Art & Design Studies)  2013    Beaconhouse National University,   Lahore

B.F.A      2005                               University of Dhaka                  Sculpture    

 

        Present Position

Trustee, Britto Arts Trust.

Faculty, Pathshala South Asian Media Institute.

 

Date of Birth:      1st July 1983

Nationality:          Bangladeshi 

 

15th August, 2022