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Raqib Shaw, From Narcissus to Icarus (After Déjeuner sur l’herbe), 2017-2019, acrylic liner and enamel on Birch wood, 60-5/8" × 71-5/8" (154 cm × 182 cm) 62" × 73-1/8" × 2-13/16" (157.5 cm × 185.7 cm × 7.2 cm), frame © Raqib Shaw

Raqib Shaw

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b. 1974, Calcutta

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Raqib Shaw (b. 1974, Calcutta) is known for opulent and intricately detailed paintings of fantastical worlds, often with surfaces inlaid with vibrantly colored jewels and painted in enamel.

His works reveal an eclectic fusion of influences—from Persian carpets and Northern Renaissance painting to industrial materials and Japanese lacquerware—and are often developed in series from literary, art historical, and mystical sources. Shaw has had solo exhibitions at Tate Britain, London (2006); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2008); Manchester Art Gallery, England (2013); Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague (2013), the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (2018); and Ca’Pesaro International Gallery of Modern Art, Venice (2022). His exhibition at The Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom (2017) was reimagined for the Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh, in 2018. Shaw’s first traveling museum retrospective, Ballads of East and West, was on view at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville through December 31, 2023, before it travelled to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston in February 2024 where it will remain on view through May 12, 2024. Following its run in Boston, the show will be presented at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and finally at the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens in Southern California through March 2025.

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Raqib Shaw, The Martyrdom of Icarus (After Honthorst and Carracci), 2018-2019, acrylic liner and enamel on Birch wood, 35-3/4" × 47-1/8" × 2-1/8" (90.8 cm × 119.7 cm × 5.4 cm), 37-1/4" × 48-5/8" × 2-7/8" (94.6 cm × 123.5 cm × 7.3 cm), frame © Raqib Shaw

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Raqib Shaw, Three Graces, 2019, acrylic, graphite, and enamel on paper, 11-13/16" × 16-9/16" (30 cm × 42.1 cm), image, 14-5/16" × 19" × 1-1/2" (36.4 cm × 48.3 cm × 3.8 cm), frame © Raqib Shaw