Nahem Shoa, Artist and Curator
Nahem Shoa was born in Notting Hill, London. He is a well-known for his contemporary portraits of British people of colour. These portraits have been in pioneering exhibitions in regional museums and art galleries in Britain on the theme of identity and race. More recently his work draws on the current state of the world, climate change, nature, trees, race, myth, pollution, art history and combines these realities in his own complex and visionary language of painting.
Since 2004 Shoa’s portraits are in the collections of Manchester City Art Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, The Box, Plymouth, Graves Gallery, Sheffield, The Herbert, Coventry, Southampton City Art Gallery, Bury Art Gallery, Museum of Hartlepool, The Atkinson, Southport, and most recently Ferens Art Gallery, Hull.