Zarah Hussain CV www.zarahhussain.co.uk
[email protected] Awards/Commissions o Held in the Hand – 2 sculptural pieces that can be touched by users. Commissioned by Leicestershire Museums, 2013 o Paint the Town – Designing 25 shop shutters in Barking, commissioned by Design for London and the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, 2013 o Nominated for the Jameel Prize, 2013 o Commission from Vital Arts for The Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, London 2012 o Waltham Forest Annual Awards for Art, presented by David Milliband, 2010 o Mosaic Award for Arts and Culture, 2008, presented by HRH Prince of Wales o British Council Grant 2010 o Arts Council Funding 2009 o AHRB Scholarship 2002 Collections Oldham Art Gallery Cartwright Hall Museum and Art Gallery Rochdale Touchstones Gallery University of Manchester The Prince’s Foundation Upcoming Solo Exhibitions Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, June – Aug 2014 Nour Festival, Kensington and Chelsea, London, Nov 2014 Selected solo exhibitions Araam: Breathing Space Residency and touring art exhibition curated by Shisha in collaboration with Mid Pennine Arts funded by the British Council and Arts Council England o Mid Pennine Arts, Burnley, July - Sept 2009 o Turnpike Gallery, Wigan, Jan – April, 2010 o Central Art Gallery Tameside, Jan – March 2011 o Waterside Arts Centre Sale, Jan-Mar 2011 o Zion Arts Centre Manchester, April 2011 The Beauty of Abstraction Commissioned by Cartwright Hall Art Gallery and funded by Arts Council England. o Rochdale Touchstones Art Gallery, Greater Manchester, Dec – March 2009 o Beecroft Art Gallery, Essex, Sept – Oct 2008 o Woodhorn, Newcastle, Northumberland, April-June 2008 o Fife Contemporary Art, St Andrews, Scotland, Jan – March 2007 o Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, West Yorkshire, November 2006 – Jan 2007 Handasah – Unity in Pattern Commissioned by Shisha, the international agency for contemporary South Asian Crafts and Visual arts for the Parampara Project and funded by AGMA.