People

Shuddhabrata Sengupta is an artist and curator who has been working with the Raqs Media Collective since co- founding it in 1992.

Musician and composer Sam Shalabi is a central node in Montreal’s free improvisation scene and is well-known as the founding member of the Shalabi Effect, Nutsak and Hawaga.

Visual artist T. Shanaathanan’s work explores the meaning of home in the context of displacement and migration.

Born to a family of coal miners, Yang Shaobin is highly concerned with the state of the industry in China.

Abdul-Raheem Sharif founded the Flying House (2007), a non-profit platform which promotes Emirati artists.

Painter Ahmed Sharif explores memory through the simple shapes and muted colour palette that characterise his compositions.

A pioneer of conceptual art and experimental practice in the Middle East, Hassan Sharif explored form, time, social action and mathematical systems throughout his career.

Wissam Shawkat is a calligrapher born in Al Basra, Iraq

In photographs, installations, videos and performances, Wael Shawky mines traditions of entertainment and performance through multilayered historical reconstructions that force viewers to navigate the territory of truth, myth, stereotype and cliché.

An innovative and free-minded drummer, Kevin Shea has always imbued his playing with a unique sense of humour and flexibility.

In his paintings, prints and etchings, Anwar Jalal Shemza explored modernism from both Islamic and Western perspectives.

Shimabuku's work seeks to make the familiar strange and is often inspired by personal anecdotes, collective experiences or humorous discoveries made on his travels.

The work of Taro Shinoda often explores humans’ relationship to nature, science and engineering.

Kamran Shirdel is an influential figure of Iran’s new cinema and documentary school of filmmaking.