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Nahem Shoa
In 2017 Nahem Shoa curated a three persons group exhibition with his art and works by artists Gordon Cheung, Rui Matsunaga, Into The Wild Abyss at RAMM, Exeter. In the same he was in a major portrait exhibition, Face to Face at the Herbert, Coventry, works by Paula Rego, Bomberg, and Andy Warhol were included.
In 2019 Nahem Shoa curated another pioneering exhibition, Back Presence at the Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport which highlighted 16 of Shoa’s pioneering portraits of Black British friends of his, made 20 years ago, alongside 18th century masters Joshua Reynolds and Alan Ramsay. Soon after this a number of major Regional galleries and museums exhibited Shoa’s black portraits from their collections in new displays. In 2020 The Laing Art Gallery hung Shoa’s Giant Head of Desiree in an exhibition called 100 years of the collection.
In 2020 Nahem Shoa curated another exhibition to do with Identity and race, Face of Britain at Southampton City Art Gallery, with his work hung alongside Van Dyke, Sargent, Walter Sickert, Chris Ofili, Peter Doig, Sonia Boyce, Euan Uglow, Frank Auerbach, Gwen John, Desmond Haughton and Louise Courtnell. In 2022 Shoa’s work was in two groups exhibitions, Modern Painting at the Hatton, Newcastle and Brought to Light at the Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry with his work hung alongside Claudette Johnson and Barbara Walker.
In 2023 Shoa’s work was included in three displays exhibitions in major museums, What’s New at the Manchester Art Gallery, Portrait and the human figure, the Graves Art Gallery Sheffield.
In October 2023 Shoa curated a 6 months Intervention Display exhibition, Into The Light at the National Walker Art Gallery Liverpool 6 of his portraits hang alongside masterpieces from their collection by Lucian Freud, David Hockney, Augustus John, James Tissot and Joseph Wright of Derby.
Nahem Shoa has 18 works of art in National and Regional museums across the UK. The V&A, The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Manchester Art Gallery, Laing Art gallery, Newcastle, Hatton Art Gallery, Newcastle, Southampton Art Gallery, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffied, RAMM, Exeter, The Box, Plymouth, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry, Atkinson, Southport, Bury Art Gallery, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull and Hartlepool Art Gallery.
In 2004 Nahem Shoa had his two large-scale, solo museum and art gallery exhibitions, 'Youth Culture', in Plymouth City Art Gallery and Museum and 'Giant Heads Multi-Culture', at the Hartlepool City Art Gallery. In 2005 he had another one-man exhibition, We Are Here, at The Herbert, Coventry City Art Gallery. In 2006 he exhibited twenty-eight 'Giant Heads' in Bury City Art Gallery In an Exhibition called Facing Yourself*. In July 2006 Nahem Shoa was in an exhibition, Uncompromising Study at Hartlepool Art Gallery. Shoa's work featured alongside work by Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach and Robert Lenkiewicz.
In 2007 he was in a group exhibition, 'True To Life' at the Herbert, Coventry, where he exhibited his work alongside, Freud, Auerbach, Bomberg and Lenkiewicz. In 2010 he was in a group exhibition called, 'With Thy Face I See', at the Hartlepool City Art Gallery. His numerous awards include the first prize from the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, the Lord Leighton Prize and the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award
Recently, Nahem has been developing experimental collaged video incorporating his art work.
In 2019 Nahem Shoa curated another pioneering exhibition, Back Presence at the Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport which highlighted 16 of Shoa’s pioneering portraits of Black British friends of his, made 20 years ago, alongside 18th century masters Joshua Reynolds and Alan Ramsay. Soon after this a number of major Regional galleries and museums exhibited Shoa’s black portraits from their collections in new displays. In 2020 The Laing Art Gallery hung Shoa’s Giant Head of Desiree in an exhibition called 100 years of the collection.
In 2020 Nahem Shoa curated another exhibition to do with Identity and race, Face of Britain at Southampton City Art Gallery, with his work hung alongside Van Dyke, Sargent, Walter Sickert, Chris Ofili, Peter Doig, Sonia Boyce, Euan Uglow, Frank Auerbach, Gwen John, Desmond Haughton and Louise Courtnell. In 2022 Shoa’s work was in two groups exhibitions, Modern Painting at the Hatton, Newcastle and Brought to Light at the Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry with his work hung alongside Claudette Johnson and Barbara Walker.
In 2023 Shoa’s work was included in three displays exhibitions in major museums, What’s New at the Manchester Art Gallery, Portrait and the human figure, the Graves Art Gallery Sheffield.
In October 2023 Shoa curated a 6 months Intervention Display exhibition, Into The Light at the National Walker Art Gallery Liverpool 6 of his portraits hang alongside masterpieces from their collection by Lucian Freud, David Hockney, Augustus John, James Tissot and Joseph Wright of Derby.
Nahem Shoa has 18 works of art in National and Regional museums across the UK. The V&A, The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Manchester Art Gallery, Laing Art gallery, Newcastle, Hatton Art Gallery, Newcastle, Southampton Art Gallery, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffied, RAMM, Exeter, The Box, Plymouth, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry, Atkinson, Southport, Bury Art Gallery, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull and Hartlepool Art Gallery.
In 2004 Nahem Shoa had his two large-scale, solo museum and art gallery exhibitions, 'Youth Culture', in Plymouth City Art Gallery and Museum and 'Giant Heads Multi-Culture', at the Hartlepool City Art Gallery. In 2005 he had another one-man exhibition, We Are Here, at The Herbert, Coventry City Art Gallery. In 2006 he exhibited twenty-eight 'Giant Heads' in Bury City Art Gallery In an Exhibition called Facing Yourself*. In July 2006 Nahem Shoa was in an exhibition, Uncompromising Study at Hartlepool Art Gallery. Shoa's work featured alongside work by Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach and Robert Lenkiewicz.
In 2007 he was in a group exhibition, 'True To Life' at the Herbert, Coventry, where he exhibited his work alongside, Freud, Auerbach, Bomberg and Lenkiewicz. In 2010 he was in a group exhibition called, 'With Thy Face I See', at the Hartlepool City Art Gallery. His numerous awards include the first prize from the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, the Lord Leighton Prize and the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award
Recently, Nahem has been developing experimental collaged video incorporating his art work.
Nahem Shoa Into The Light, Walker Art Gallery Liverpool
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Nahem Shoa, Face of Britain Southampton Art Gallery
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Face To Face: Portraits Through Time 3 February – 4 June 2017
HERBERT ART GALLERY & MUSEUM, Coventry |
Gbenga by Nahem Shoa
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 Nahem Shoa, Giant Heads, Skulls, Floods and Nuclear Paintings
"From his earliest student years in Manchester he set out to be a painter and after graduating in 1991 won many prizes for his portraits. At that time painting was just one of several ways of expressing oneself as a visual artist. Indeed it was regarded by some as a medium that had had its day and many artists were making conceptual work using text, as well as using photography, video and installation. Nonetheless from the mid 1970s vigorous re-interpretations of painting had emerged."
Shoa is politically aware, not least of the chauvinist label attaching to male artists using female models. In conversation he makes it clear how his models are his friends or become friends. They have to pose over many weeks. He is respectful in the poses chosen, often letting the models decide." Isobel Johnstsone, June 2015 Curator, Arts Council Collection 1979-2004. Read more. Isobel Johnstsone, June 2015 Curator, Arts Council Collection 1979-2004 |
Nahem Shoa's paintings are shown on ART UK
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Nahem Shoa in his studio 2010
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 Natalia and Skull
*Facing Yourself - Nahem Shoa's Portraits At Bury Museum & Art Gallery
By Kay Carson | 22 September 2006, Giant Head of Caroline and Giant Head of Marive. Courtesy Bury Art Gallery "I know I would recognise anywhere the human version of Giant Head of Caroline (2005) with its florid features, or the extraordinarily thick, textured eyelashes of the Giant Heads of Inma (2004) and Marive (2005). The grace of Desiree (2002) is just breathtaking. “I try to define something very intimate about the sitters, their inner presence, completely opposite to the large scale I paint them in,” says Shoa. “My aim is to capture a duality of the inner and the outer world, where the paint and the human merge and become a living reality." Kay Carson. |
Nahem Shoa's Video, a mixed media installation based on one of his paintings.
