b.1980
Education
2005-2007 MA Fine Art, Slade School of Art, University College London
2001-2005 BA Fine Art (1st Class), Foundation in Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art, London
1998-2001 BA Physiology (1st Class), 1st BM Medicine (Parts 1 & 2) Oxford University
Work Experience
2008-2009 Artist- in-Residence, Maths Department, University College London
2008 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Fine Art, University of Teeside, Middlesborough
Awards
2008 Wellcome Trust Art Award for project 'Ravelling, Unravelling'
2005 Arts & Humanities Research Council Professional Preparation Masters Award
2000 Nuffield Science Prize for Medicine
Solo Exhibitions
2010 'COMMA 22: Naheed Raza', Bloomberg SPACE, London
2009 'RAVELLING, UNRAVELLING', Royal Institution of Great Britain, London
2006 'WALL', Slade Research Centre, Woburn Square, London
2002 ‘WALL’, Henry Moore Plinth, Chelsea College of Art, London
Group Exhibitions / Events / Screenings
2010 'THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND', Centre for Contemporary Art Glasgow (Forthcoming)
2010 '64th EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL', Filmhouse, Edinburgh
2010 'LOOPS', Performance Event curated by Sam Belifante, Chelsea SPACE, London
2010 'LINE JOURNEYS' Collyer Bristow Gallery, London
2009 'DURATION', Screening, Candid Arts Trust London
2009 'L'AISLE / NO FUTURE', Centro Cultural Correios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2008 'IN IT'S WAKE', Elevator Gallery
2008 'A GOTHIC STORY', Shoreditch Town Hall
2007 'SALON GRADUATES 2007', Salon Gallery, Westbourne Grove
2007 ‘TURTLE’, Slade Research Centre, London
2006 ‘BOXED POTENTIAL’, Expodium Gallery, Utrecht, Netherlands
2005 ‘LATE AT TATE’, Evening of performances and screeings of work by Chelsea Student and Staff at Tate Britain
2003 ‘CIRCUS’, Exhibition curated by Peter Blake, London Institute Gallery
2001 'XHIBIT 01', Exhibition of work by Chelsea Student and Staff, London Institute Gallery
2000 'ROYAL ACADEMY SUMMER EXHIBITION', Royal Academy, London
Publications/Editions
2009 'RAVELLING, UNRAVELLING' A collection of commissioned essays on the theme of 'entanglement' by the artist Naheed Raza ('The Ties That Bind Us'), Steven Connor, Professor of Literature & Theory, Birkbeck College London ('Witchknots, Knitwits & Knots Intrinsicate'), Dr Elena Orlova, Specialist in Macromolecular structures, Birkbeck College London ('Nature Doesn't Favour Rigid Structures') and Poet/Ethnographer Tom Lowenstein ('Inner Tangle, Outer Tangle: A Buddhist & Shamanistic Poetic') To purchase a copy (£6.50 inc. p&p) please contact the artist
2007 'CHANNELS', CD Audio Release, Slade Audio Club (info)