Shezad Dawood (born 1974) is an artist born and based in
London.
Shezad Dawood works across the disciplines of painting, film, neon, sculpture, performance, virtual reality and other digital media to ask key questions of narrative, history and embodiment.[1] His works reflect his varied cultural heritage, having a
Pakistani mother, an
Indian father and an
Irishstepmother.[2]
He trained at Central Saint Martin's and received his
MA from the
Royal College of Art in 2000 before undertaking a PhD from the School of Arts at Leeds Metropolitan University (now
Leeds Beckett University) in 2008 (Fine Art), titled 'The killing of Chief Crazy Horse: a metaphorical allegory in 3 parts'. Dawood is a Research Fellow in Experimental Media at the University of Westminster.
Publications
Making New Time: Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber, Omar Kholeif (ed.), Prestel, Munich, Germany, 2019.
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Artists' Moving Image in Britain since 1989, Erika Balsam, Lucy Reynolds and Sarah Perks (eds.), Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art; London, 2019.
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