| b.1977 | Toronto Lives and works in London UK |
| EDUCATION | |
| 2006 | Goldsmiths College, MFA, London |
| 2000 | Ontario College of Art and Design, AOCAD, Toronto |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS(* catalogue) | |
| 20152014 | I & I, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur Licking Forward Tangerine, noshowspace, London CAPITAL!, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin One Minus One, Ana Cristea Gallery, New York |
| 2013 | Wishful Thinking, Vous Etes Ici, Amsterdam |
| Shaan Tariq Hassan-Syed, Birch Libralato, Toronto | |
| 2011 | Hole, Vous Etes Ici, Amsterdam |
| 2009 | Please Play by the Rules, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin |
| 2008 | Stage, Birch Libralato, Toronto |
| 2006 | Arena, Brown, London |
| 2004 | Crowds and Constellations (traveling)*, -PlugIn ICA Winnipeg, Mb -The Art Gallery of Windsor, On |
| GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2015 20142013 |
The Violet Crab, DRAF, London New Century Abstracts, cur. by Carla Garnet, Art Gallery of Peterborough Ontario and Art Gallery of Chatham, Kent* Group show, Patrick De Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium On White, Geukins & DeVil, Antwerp and Knokke, Belgium Emergency 6 Biennial, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK |
| New Century Abstracts, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Canada | |
| Synesthesium, with Benjamin Brett, Stuart Cumberland, Ana Cristea Gallery, New York | |
| 2012 | Paper Does Not Blush, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin |
| 2011 | The Multiple Show, Vous Etes Ici, Amsterdam |
| Fade Away, Transition Gallery, London + Gallery North/University of Northumbria, Newcastle* | |
| In Between, Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto | |
| 2010 | Fifteen, cur. by Louise Hutchinson and George Henry Longly, S1 Artspace, Sheffield |
| Addendum, La Salles de Bains, Lyon | |
| Jerwood Contemporary Painters, Jerwood Space London and travelling UK* | |
| In Black and White, Domo Baal, London | |
| 2009 | Baker’s Dozen, cur. by Clare Goodwin, CGP Gallery, London Supersurface, cur. by Mike Stubbs, Laurent Delaye Gallery, London Niko’s Rear Entrance, cur. by Nikos Pantazis, Brunswick Triennale, Australia |
| 2008 | ArtFutures 2008, Bloomberg Space, London Foreground Background, Elementa Gallery, cur. by Swapna Tamhane, Dubai* |
| 2007 | Where Something Becomes Nothing, S1 Artspace, Sheffield, UK Distinction, cur. by Gerard Hemsworth, Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
| Artnet News, “The 10 Best Booths at UNTITLED”, Cait Munro, 02 Dec 14 The Art Newspaper, “Artist’s Duvet Day Pays Dividends”, 03 Dec 14 Canadian Art, Hot Art from the North and Beyond”, David Balzer, 04 Dec 14 Whitewall Magazine, “Untitled: “Bold, Bright and Big”, Katy Donoghue Hyperallergic.com, “Not for Sale: Outside the Convention Center in Miami”, Paul David Young, 06 Dec 14. Canadian Art online; “Notes on a Toronto/Berlin State of Mind”; 23 April 2014, Sholem Krishtalka Lodown Magazine, Issue 94, ’14. Feature: “Shaan Syed: All Capitals!” Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin, 5 April 2014; “Die Kunst der Erinnerung”, Simon Grothe. ArtReview, October 2013, Review of The Andrew Project Book by Oliver Basciano Aesthetica Magazine Blog, review by Charles Danby on “Fade Away” exhibition. Tablet Issue 03, online magazine published by Brown. Interview with Pieternel Vermoortel; Link > Eyland, Cliff, Shaan Syed and Sarah Anne Johnson, Border Crossings, Issue 99, Canada. Keilmayer, Oliver, Shaan Syed at Galerie Brigitte Weiss, Canadian Art, Winter 2005 Keilmayer, Oliver, Erkentnis im Dunkeln, Kunstbulletin, Germany, Switzerland. Oct 2005 Doyle Dredger, Sharon, Ten Artists Who Rock, Macleans, Canada Jan 12 2004 Proudfoot, Shannon, 15 Glimpses at Painting’s Future, National Post, Canada. Nov 20 2003 Michael Dault, Gary, Intimacy Once Removed, The Globe and Mail, Canada. Aug 16 2003 Govani, Shinan, Searching for Jane, The National Post, Canada. Nov 3 2001 Fullerton, Kim, Shaan Syed’s Tricks of Memory, XTRA!, Toronto Mar. 8 2001 PUBLICATIONS and CATALOGUES “Catalogue”, ed. Oliver Kielmayer, published by Snoeck on the occasion of “I &” solo show at Kunsthalle Winterthur. “Green Apples Cum Shots Graffiti”, artist book published by noshowspace. “100 Painters of Tomorrow”, Kurt Beers and Gregor Muir, published by Thames and Hudson. “The Andrew Project”, co-published by FormContent and S1 Artspace, 2013. “About Painting”, published by Transition Gallery London and Gallery North Newcastle, with text by Barry Schwabsky. 2011. Mu.ZEE Ostend, Belgium. “The Responsive Subject; Guy Mees” (written contribution to catalogue focusing on work of Flemish artist Guy Mees), FormContent, 2011. Birkhauser Publishing, “Chroma Design Architecture & Art in Colour”, Barbara Glaser, Petra Schmidt (Eds), 2010. Carte Blanche Volume 2; Canadian Painting, The Magenta Foundation. Plug In Editions, Shaan Syed; Crowds and Constellations -Exhibition catalogue with essays by Steven Matijcio.and David Liss, 2005. RBC Painting Competition 10th Anniversary Book (profile and essay by Steven Matijcio). Elementa Gallery, Foreground/Background, -Exhibition catalogue, text by Swapna Tamhane, 2008. |
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| AWARDS, GRANTS | |
| 2013 | Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant |
| 2012 | The Elephant Trust Grant UK |
| 2010 | Canada Council for the Arts Project Grant |
| Arts Council England/National Lottery UK project grant Jerwood Contemporary Painters UK 2010 |
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| 2006 | Canada Council for the Arts, Development Grant |
| COLLECTIONS | |
| Bank of America, Oklahoma, USA Bloomingdales, NY, New York Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto Goldsmiths College, University of London Helabank, Berlin Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto Saatchi Collection, London SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo Stiftung Kunstlerhaus Boswil, Switzerland TD Canada Trust, Toronto UBS Art Collection, London UK |