Sharjah Art Foundation

Sharjah Biennial 16

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
6 Febuary — 15 June 2025

Sharif, Ahmed

Sharif, Ahmed

1978, Dubai, UAE
Lives and works in Dubai, UAE

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

Sharif, Hassan

Sharif, Hassan

Artist

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.

Shawkat, Wissam

Shawkat, Wissam

Artist

Wissam Shawkat is a calligrapher born in Al Basra, Iraq

Shawky, Wael

Shawky, Wael

Artist

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.

Shea, Kevin

Shea, Kevin

Artist

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

Shemza, Anwar Jalal

Shemza, Anwar Jalal

Artist

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

Sherwell, Dr Tina

Sherwell, Dr Tina

Director, International Academy of Art, Palestine

Dr Tina Sherwell is the Director of The International Academy of Art Palestine, a post she has held since 2007.

Shibuya, Keiichiro

Shibuya, Keiichiro

Composer, Musician

Composer and musician Keiichiro Shibuya has created musical works for live performances, films and sound installations and established the music label ATAK.

Shimabuku

Shimabuku

Artist

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.

Shingo Masuda + Katsuhisa Otsubo

Shingo Masuda + Katsuhisa Otsubo

Architects

As they formulate their designs, Shingo Masuda and Katsuhisa Otsubo make careful observations of the daily activities planned for a site and the existing context.

Shinoda, Taro

Shinoda, Taro

Artist

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

Shinohara, Kazuo

Shinohara, Kazuo

Architect

Architect, educator and writer Kazuo Shinohara formed what is now widely known as the Shinohara School.

Ethnographer, artist and filmmaker Jesse Weaver Shipley explores the links between aesthetics and power by examining both spectacular performance events and mundane social life.

Shirazi, Sadia

Shirazi, Sadia

Writer, Architect, Curator

Sadia Shirazi is a writer, art historian, architect and independent curator whose research focuses on transregional histories of modernism and contemporary art across South Asia, the Middle East and their diasporas.

Shirdel, Kamran

Shirdel, Kamran

Artist

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

Shiri, Keith

Shiri, Keith

Filmmaker

Keith Shiri is founder and director of Africa at the Pictures, the London African Film Festival and the Africa Media Centre University of Westminster, London.

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