ZEINAB SALEH
Zeinab Saleh
b. 1996 in Kenya
Lives and works in London
Education
BFA, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London
Fine Art Foundation Degree, Royal Drawing School, London
Solo Exhibitions
Art Now: Zeinab Saleh, Tate Britain, London, (19 January - 23 June 2024)
j~o~y r~i~d~e, Champ Lacombe, Biarritz, (15 October 2022 - 15 January 2023)
Softest place (on earth) [Extended mix], Château Shatto, Los Angeles, (22 January - 5 March 2022)
Softest place (on earth), Camden Art Centre, London, (10 September - 23 December 2021)
Selected Exhibitions
A Lover's Discourse, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, (22 June - 22 July, 2023)
Nour el Ain, curated by Mohamed Almusibli, Karma International, Switzerland, 2021
After Image, curated by Robert Spragg, MAMOTH, London, 2020
Condo London, curated by Olivia Barrett and Finola Jones, mother’s tankstation, London [two-person exhibition with Yuko Mohri], 2020
The Poetics of the Neighbourhood Rascals, curated by Amal Alhaag, Barbershop Mixed People, Rotterdam, 2019
A patch of green in London, curated by Jerome Ince-Mitchell, Cookhouse Gallery, London, 2019
The Age of New Babylon, curated by Sara Gulamali and Samboleap Tol, Lethaby Gallery, London, 2018
Redress, curated by Dr Andrea Frederickson, UCL Art Museum, London, 2018
Press / Publications / Text
Frieze, The Quiet Sovereignty of Zeinab Saleh, Ellen Mara De Wachter, 2024
FAD, ART NOW: ZEINAB SALEH AT TATE BRITAIN, Mark Westall, 2024
Prospect One painting at a time: ‘Summer’s End’ by Zeinab Saleh, Francesca Peacock, 2024
Aspen Art Museum, Apologia for Grey, Negar Azimi, 2023
Palm, Jeu de Paume, Zeinab Saleh, The Ring, Virginie Huet, 2023
Wallpaper*, London art exhibitions, Nasra Abdullahi, 2021
The White Pube, 3 for 1 at Camden Art Centre: Adam Farah, Phoebe Collings-James & Zeinab Saleh, Zarina Muhammad, 2021
PORTER, Artists to celebrate loudly in 2021, Zarina Muhammad, 2021
The New York Times, Frieze New York, First Live Art Fair in a Year, Kicks Off at the Shed, Will Heinrich, 2021
The Face, Scrap that, lets Begin Again, TJ Sidhu, 2020
Elephant Magazine, For Zeinab Saleh, Co-Founder of Muslim Sisterhood, Community Is Everything, Rosalind Duguid, 2020
DATEAGLE ART, Reclaiming Commonality, Emma O Brien, 2020
Failed Architecture, The Radical Culture of Night Shops and Beauty Salons, Charlie Clemoes, 2019
Talks / Presentations
A Lover’s Discourse: Artist Panel Moderated by Curator Stella Bottai, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, August 2023
Zeinab Saleh, Contemporary Art Lecture, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, October 2021
Community building through practice, Contemporary Art Lecture, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, 2020
Panel discussion with Rizwan Hussain, Nurull Islam, Zeinab Saleh and Lamisa Khan, Chisenhale Gallery, London, March 2020
Marathon: The City That Never Sleeps, Zeinab Saleh in conversation with Amal Alhaag, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, 2019
Taking up Space, panel discussion, Blake Society, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, 2019
Awards, Grants and Residencies
Metroland Cultures Residency, London, 2021
a-n, Time, Space, Money, 2020
Duveen Travel Scholarship, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, 2019
Dumfries House Residency, Royal Drawing School, Ayrshire, Scotland, 2019
PEER FORUM, Camden Art Centre, awarded by Artquest, 2018
Redress, UCL Art Museum, London, 2018
Prankerd-Jones Memorial prize, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, 2018
Projects
Muslim Sisterhood, Co-founder, 2017