About

‘My practice is observing, intuitive and reductive. It is a conversation between textual works which frame the zeitgeist and contemplative abstract compositions that may be viewed as inner landscapes.'

 

Mukesh Shah (b.1959, Aden, Yemen) is a British-Indian visual artist based in Dubai and London. His childhood was in Aden and Bombay before coming to school in the UK in 1976. After working in finance he started a studio practice in 2011. He has an MA in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge. His solo and group exhibitions include: Palabras, Palabras, Palabras (Tamara Kreisler Gallery, Madrid, 2023), Personal Structures (Palazzo Mora, Venice Biennale, 2022), Sign Systems (Unit London, London, 2022), XVA Gallery (Dubai, 2021), The Print Show (Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, 2019), XVA Gallery (Dubai, 2019), Wetpaint Gallery (Stroud, UK, 2018), Sikka Art & Design Festival (Dubai, 2018), ArtBAB (Bahrain, 2017), Gallery Elena Shchukina (London, 2017), XVA Gallery (Dubai, 2016). His book C?N U FEEL IT was published by Akkadia Press, Edinburgh, in 2021.