Born in 1975, Cambridge, UK. Lives and works in London, UK

Education 


2001 MFA Sculpture, The Slade School Of Fine Art, UCL, London
1998 B.A. Honours Fine Art (Sculpture), Sheffield Hallam University
1995 B.T.E.C Diploma, Foundation Studies, Cambridge Regional College

Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors, United Kingdom

Solo Exhibitions

2022

Drift Point, Saint Laurent. Paris/Milan/London/Duabi/Chengdu/LA/New York/Tokyo/Seoul

Fractured Landscapes, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai.

2021

Passing Through, FOLD Gallery, London

2019

Luminous Territories, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE.

2018

The Shape of a City, Letitia Gallery, Beirut.

(De)figured, Dance / Installation with Angela Woodhouse, Elephant, London.

2017

Threshold, FOLD Gallery, London.

Signs of the City, Galerie Jérôme Pauchant, Paris.

2016

Black Shed Expanded, at Parasol Unit, London.

The Luminous City, One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London.

2015

Radient Trajectory, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai.

2014

Edge Lands, Galerie Jérôme Pauchant, Paris.

The Consequence of Light, Solo Show, Bodson Gallery, Brussels.

2013

NR for F&M, Installation, Covent Garden, London.

Reflections on Space, BISCHOFF/WEISS, London.

Spin NY, temporary installation for EDUN, New York. 2012 Solo Project, Art Cologne.

2011

Back Beacon, Calvin Klein Collection, New York.

On the Floor: John Gibbons / Nathaniel Rackowe, Gooden Gallery, London.

2010

What the City Left Behind BISCHOFF/WEISS, London. Solo Show, The Delfina Foundation, London.

2009

Black Shed Expanded, Art Basel Miami Beach, Positions with BISCHOFF/ WEISS, Miami, USA.

2008

Divisions, Centro Colombo Americano, Bogota, Colombia. Pathfinding, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris.

Preverberation, Siobhan Davies Studios, London.

2007

Luminous Territories, BISCHOFF/WEISS, London. First Floor, Galerie Almine Rech, Project Space, Paris.

2005

Shift, BISCHOFF/WEISS, London.

Stanhope Solo Exhibition, Serpentine Pavillon, London.

Timebase Gallery, Hull, UK. 2004 GardenFresh Gallery, Chicago.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022

Take Me Away to Better days, AD Leb, Beirut.

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London.

Cure3, charity group exhibition and auction, Bonhams, London.

Summer Lights, large scale installation, Canary Wharf.

2021

Lost in the Right Direction, AD Leb, Beirut.

Topographies de la lumière, Paris.

50/50, Way Out East Gallery, University of East London.

On the Other Hand, Brooke Bennington, Canary Wharf, London.

Under Construction, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai.

2020

EVI Lichtungen, Light Art Festival, Hildesheim, Germany.

Lightkeepers, S12 Gallery, Bergen, Norway.

2019

(Un)touched, Installation / Performance with Angela Woodhouse, The Norwegian National Opera and Ballet House, Oslo.

(De)figured, Installation / Performance with Angela Woodhouse, Royal Society of Sculptors, London.

Mémoire Vive, Galerie Jérôme Pauchant, Paris.

2018

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London .

(Un)touched, National Museum of Serbia, Belgrade.

Heavy Metal, Galerie Jérôme Pauchant, Paris.

Lumiere London.

2017

Occasional Geometries, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK.

Sculpture in the City, London.

The Mood of Space, FA Projects, Paris.

Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, Sculpture Park, Fulmer, UK.

MD4, Mysticism and Insecurity, The Koppel Project, London.

Odds, Assembly Point, London.

L’Im-matériel , Galerie Épisodique, Paris.

2016

The Blue Hour, Curated by Rowena Chiu, Carousel Gallery, London.

État Second, L’Hoste Art Contemporain, Arles, France.

Green Man Festival, group show, Brecon Beacons, UK.

Low Fidelity, Two person show with Ulrik Weck, Etage Projects, Copenhagen.

Il suffit d’un grand morceau de ciel, Galerie Jerome Pauchant, Paris, France.

Sculpture by the Sea, Perth, Australia.

Portals to Fantasy Destinations: Nathaniel Rackowe, Shuster & Moseley, House of St Barnabas, Soho, London.

Lumiere London, Regents Place, London.

2015

Sculpture by the Sea, Aarhus, Denmark.

(Un)touched, version 2 sharing, OXO tower, London

New DG works, Rod Barton, London

2014

Light Fantastic, House of the Nobleman, London

Nathaniel Rackowe & Julien Lombardi: Installation, Drawing, Photography, L’HOSTE Art Contemporain, Arles, France.

Monologue / Dialogue, Bangkok Art and Cultual Centre, Bangkok

Géométrie Immatérielle, Un-Spaced, Bordeaux, France

2013

Monologue / Dialogue, group show, Bangkok Cultural Centre

Empty Lines, Galerie Bertrand Grimont, Paris.

Platonic Spin. Lumiere, Light Festival of Durham, UK.

The Double Illums Bolighus, group exhibition, Copenhagen

Dynamo, Group Show, Grand Palais, Paris

2012

Royal Academy Summer Show, London

21 x 29,7, Group Exhibition. Galerie De Roussan, Paris

2011

Come le lucciole, group show at Nicoletta Rusconi, Milan, Italy

What The Thunder Said, group show at Lu Magnus, New York

2010

Legacy I: Outdoor Sculpture, Formans Smokehouse Gallery, London

2009

Kaleidoscopic Revolver, British Art, Hanjiyun Contemporary Space, Beijing, China

Natural Wonders: New Art from London, Baibakov Art Projects, Moscow

Superposition, Duve Gallery, Berlin
London Calling, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

2008

Nathaniel Rackowe and Douglas White, Art Vandelay Gallery, London

Constructs for Illumination, Allsopp Contemporary London

Domestic Appliance, Flowers East, London

Art After Dark, Louise Blouin Foundation, London

Walls & Gateways, Existentie, Gent, Belgium

Monologue/Dialogue Part II, Thai/UK Art, BISCHOFF/WEISS, London

Lumiere, Galerie Jan Wentrup, Berlin

2007

Du machinique et du vivant, La Reserve, Pacy-sur-Eure, France

The Body Electric, Truman Brewery, London

All Tomorrows Pictures, ICA, London

Jerwood Sculpture Prize: Short Listed Artist Exhibition, Jerwood Space, London

Time, Burghley Sculpture Garden Burghley House, Stamford

2006

Artificial Light, MoCA Miami, USA

Artificial Light, Anderson Gallery, Richmond, USA

Residency followed by Monologue/Dialogue Part I, Bangkok, Thailand Reveal,

Installation for the Sculpture Trail Forest of Dean, UK

2005

Sine Qua Non, BISCHOFF/WEISS, London

2004

2X2, Dahl Gallery, Luzern, Switzerland Trackers, PM Gallery, UK

2003

I am a Curator, Chisenhale Gallery, London Origin, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester

R type and Pests, BLOC, Sheffield, UK

Lost Space, Group Show, Phoenix Gardens, London

2002

Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Static Gallery Liverpool in September during Biennial and Barbican Center in December, UK

Fame and Promise, Victoria Miro Gallery, London

It Was Bigger Than All of Us, The Prenelle Gallery, South Quay, London

2001

Communicating At an Unknown Rate, Engine Show, Harrow Road, London

Ida Branson Postgraduate Show, Atkinson Gallery, Street

Postgraduate Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London 2000 Slade Engine, Vauxhall, London

Public Sculpture

2022 Origin, Wingate House, Soho, London.
2021 Stack, permanent public sculpture, Canary Wharf, London
2021 Folly, temporary public sculpture, Riverside Walk Gardens, London
2018 Origin, permanent public sculpture, Aarhus, Denmark
2017 Square Prism, The Royal British Society of Sculptors, Kensington, London 2017 Black Shed Expanded, Sculpture in the City, London
2016 The Moment of Light, Warehouse 421, Abu Dhabi.
2016 Platonic Spin. Lumiere, Light Festival of London.
2014 Black Shed Expanded, Village Royal, Paris.
2013 Black Cube. DEN FRIE Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
2013 Platonic Spin. Lumiere, Light Festival of Durham, UK
2010 Spin, Lima, Peru,
2008 Government Art Collection commission for 50 Queens Anne’s Gate, London 2007 RP3, Economist Plaza with CAS, London
2006 LP4, Victoria, London, UK

Grants / Awards

2016 Arts Council UK award for development and presentation of (Un)Touched 2009 Delfina Foundation Residency Award
2004 Stanhope Fellowship
2003 Boise Travel Scholarship

2001 Arts and Humanities Research Board award for Postgraduate Study,

Residencies

2012 DEN FRIE Centre of Contemporary Art / CPH Air Residency in Copenhagen 2009 Artist residency with the Delfina Foundation in Beirut, Lebanon
2006 British Council / Bangkok University residency in Bangkok.
2006 Forest of Dean Sculpture Park residency

2005 Hull Time Based Arts residency

Selected Collections

Canary Wharf, London
CIFO (Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation), Miami
Jumex Collection, Mexico
Museum of Modern Art, Lima, Peru
LVMH Collection, Paris
Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia
CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux
David Roberts Collection, London
Hill Art Foundation, New York, USA
UK Government Art Collection
Hauser & Wirth Collection, London
Ernst & Young Collection, London
Patricia Marshall, Private collection, Paris
Marc Blondeau, Private collection, Geneva
Almine Rech-Picasso, Private collection, Paris
Rafic Said, Private Collection, Dubai & Switzerland
VR d'Affaux Collection, Paris
Salama Bint Hamdan Foundation, Abu Dhabi
Hussam Otaibi, Private collection, and sculpture park, UK Vente Privée, Paris.
British Ambassador to Beirut, Beirut.

Representing Galleries / References:

Asmaa Al-Shabibi Director

Lawrie Shabibi
Alserkal Avenue, Unit 21, Al Quoz PO Box 123901, Dubai, UAE
T 971(0) 4346 9906
M 971(0) 50 467 0272 asmaa@lawrieshabibi.com lawrieshabibi.com
Twitter @lawrieshabibi
Instagram @lawrieshabibi

Kim Savage Director

FOLD Gallery
158 New Cavendish Street, London. W1W 6YW Tel +44 (0) 207 436 8050
kim@foldgallery.com https://www.foldgallery.com