Saad Qureshi

Saad Qureshi received his BA in Fine Art from Oxford Brookes University in 2007 and an MFA in Painting from The Slade School of Fine Art, London, in 2010. 

Described by Laura Cumming in the Observer as “one of our most pensive and poetic artists”, his sculptures give form to the ideas or stories by which we lend meaning to human existence. 

Recent solo exhibitions include the Djanogly Gallery (at Lakeside Arts, Nottingham University); Sharjah Islamic Arts Festival; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield; and Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi. Group exhibitions include the Aga Khan Centre Gallery, London; I'Institut des Cultures d'Islam, Paris; Museum Arnhem, Netherlands; Kunsthall 3,14, Bergen; Drawing Room, London; and White Project Gallery, Paris.

Winner of The Frieze & The OWO Sculpture Prize, Convocation is on view at Raffles London. Also in 2023, Saad Qureshi was commissioned to realise a permanent Organ Donor Memorial for the Royal London Hospital at Whitechapel. He was shortlisted for the 2021 SkyArts LANDMARKS public art prize, and has realised public commissions at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford and for LandSec at Victoria, London.

His work has been acquired by public collections including the Dipti Mathur Collection, California; The Farjam Foundation Collection, Dubai; the UNESCO Creative Cities Collection, Beijing; The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi; the Bagri Collection, London; the Almarkhiya Gallery, Qatar; and the Saudia Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art (SAMoCA), as well as private collections around the world.

Saad Qureshi is a Trustee of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

He features in Thames & Hudson’s 100 Sculptors of Tomorrow.

Currently on show in London are two solo exhibitions: A Handful of Paradise at I DE V / l’étrangère at 55 Riding House Street, Fitzrovia; and Of Paradise and Other Places with HS Projects at 5 Howick Place, Victoria.