Raqib Shaw was born in Calcutta, India in 1974 and grew up in in Kashmir. He moved to England in 1998 to study at the Central St Martins School of Art, from where he graduated in 2002 with an MA in Fine Art.

Since graduating his work has been exhibited in galleries around the world.
Today Raqib lives and works in London.  

Work held in Public Collections:

Tate Britain, London
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Solo Exhibitions:

2012   
Of Beasts and Super-Beasts, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

2011   
Paradise Lost, White Cube, London

2009   
Absence of God, White Cube, London 
Absence of God, Karlsplatz Project Space, Kunsthalle Wein, Vienna

2008   
Raqib Shaw At The Met, The Metropolitan Museum, New York

2006   
Art Now: Raqib Shaw, Tate Britain, London 
Raqib Shaw: Garden of Earthly Delights, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami

2005   
Raqib Shaw: Garden of Earthly Delights, Deitch Projects, New York

2004   
Raqib Shaw: Garden of Earthly Delights, Victoria Miro Gallery, London

Selected group exhibitions:

2006
6th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
Without Boundaries, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Around the World in Eighty Days, ICA, London