Shafique Uddin
Bangladeshi-British artist
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Shafique Uddin (born 1962) is a Bangladeshi-born British outsider artist known for his paintings.[1][2] Uddin was born in Borobari, Bangladesh (then East Pakistan), and moved to the United Kingdom in 1976.[1]
Shafique's first exhibition, at the age of seventeen, was at London's Whitechapel Gallery. He was a part of the 2005 Outsider Art exhibition held by the Tate Museum, London.[3] In 2016 he was a part of the Whitechapel Gallery exhibition Inner Worlds Outside.[4]
His work is included in the Arts Council Collection of Southbank Centre, London,[5] the Bradford Museums and Galleries,[6] the New Art Gallery Walsall,[7] the Irish Museum of Modern Art's Outsider Art Collection[8] and the Anthony Petullo Collection of Self-taught & Outsider Art at the Milwaukee Art Museum.[9][10]
Solo exhibitions
Group exhibitions
- 1986 Brushes with the West, Wapping Sports Centre, London, UK[11]
- 1986 From Two Worlds, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK[11]
- 1987 In Another World: Outsider Art from Europe & America, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, UK[11]
- 1988 Numaish Lalit Kala: Indian Arts Festival, Bluecoat Gallery Liverpool, UK[11]
- 1990 The British Art Show, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow & Hayward Gallery, London, UK[11]
- 1990 In Focus, Horizon Gallery, London, UK[11]
