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Shaheen Merali | |
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| Born | 1959 Tanzania |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | 1986 Adult Education, Willesden College of Technology, London
1982 B.A. (Hons.) Fine Art (Sculpture), Gwent College of Further Education, Wales 1979 Foundation Course, Barnet College, London |
| Occupation(s) | curator, critic, writer, artist |
Shaheen Merali (born 1959) is a Tanzanian writer, curator, critic, and artist. Merali began his artistic practice in the 1980s committing to social, political and personal narratives.[1] As his practice evolved, he focused on functions of a curator, lecturer and critic and has now moved into the sphere of writing. Previously he was a key lecturer at Central Saint Martins School of Art (1995-2003), a visiting lecturer and researcher at the University of Westminster (1997-2003) and the Head of the Department of Exhibition, Film and New Media at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2003-2008).[2] A regular speaker on ideas of contemporary exhibition making internationally, in 2018 he was the keynote speaker at the International Art Gallery of the Aga Khan Diamond Jubilee Arts Festival, Lisbon.[3]
As an exhibition maker at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Merali curated several exhibitions accompanied by publications which he edited, including The Black Atlantic; Dreams and Trauma - Moving images and the Promised Lands; and Re-Imagining Asia,[4] One Thousand Years of Separation.[5] Merali was the co-curator of the 6th Gwangju Biennale, Korea (2006)[6] and the co-curator of Berlin Heist or the enduring fascination of walled cities for the 4th Mediations Biennale, Poland (2014-2015).[7]
In 1988, Merali co-founded the Panchayat Arts Education Resource Unit in and around Spitafields Market. The Unit's main function was one of collecting ephemera, documents and publications.[4] The collection provided research material aimed to illustrate the link between modern and contemporary art and activism through archival practices focused on the work of South Asian, Black and issue-based artists in the United Kingdom and internationally.[8] The Panchayat archival material was donated and is now part of the Tate library's Special Collection in London.[8]
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:7was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Carey, Brainard (June 8, 2015). "Shaheen Merali". Museum of Non-visible Art. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
- ^ Merchant, Abdulmalik (August 13, 2018). "Perspectives on the International Art Gallery at the Aga Khan's Diamond Jubilee Celevrations in Lisbon". Retrieved 16 September 2019.
- ^ a b Shwetal Patel, Shaheen Merali (December 2017). "On the critical decades and the role of archives". On Curating. 37: 50, 55.
- ^ ed. Merali, Shaheen (2008). Re-imagining Asia: A Thousand Years of Separation. Saqi Books. ISBN 978-0863566530.
{{cite book}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ "지난 광주비엔날레". Gwangju Biennale. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
- ^ Wendland, Tomasz (September 13, 2014). "4th Mediations Biennale: When Nowhere Becomes Here". e-flux. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
- ^ a b "Tate Library". tate.org.uk. Retrieved 16 September 2019.