Saif Osmani

b. 1981, London

Spatial Designer & Visual Artist

With a practice that overlaps fine art, architecture and interiors, photography and written text, Saif creates paintings and drawings which are often based on identity formation and cultural codes of communication.

Following his recent involvement with local community groups, Saif has begun documenting how community activism takes shape, questioning the ownership of public space by tracing how communities formulate their own collective visual language.

Chelsea College of Art & Design, BA Honours: Interior and Spatial Design

Central St. Martins School of Art (Art & Design Foundation Course)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
July-Aug 2017: Barbican Centre, London EC2N
Jan-Feb 2017: Bangla is not my mother tongue, Husk Gallery, Limehouse, London E14
Oct-Nov 2016: Amrar Zaga/ Our Place, Stratford Library, London E15 (part of Newham Heritage Week 2016)
November 2013: The Underlying Narrative (part of A Season of Bangla Drama, Brady Arts Centre, London)
June 2013: Human Coral - the case for London's Street Markets (Rich Mix Arts Centre, Shoreditch, London)
March-April 2013: Bang, Bang, Bangladesh- 40 years of nation-creation through music (Barbican Music Library, Barbican Centre, London)
Nov-Dec 2011: Through the Bamboo Wall, (Winterbourne House, Birmingham)
July- Aug 2011: 111 Scenes (Bamboo Curtain Studio, Taipei, Taiwan)
June-July 2011: Spaces Inhabited by Mahatma Gandhi, (Moonbow Jakes, Margate, Kent CT9)
May 2011: Spaces Inhabited by Mahatma Gandhi (The Gandhi Foundation UK, Kingsley Hall, London)
Feb 2011: Resident Artist (Voluntary Action Islington, London)
Sept 2010: Anti-Object (Oxford House, Bethnal Green, London)
July-Oct 2010: Wheels of Shah Jalal (Chaat Gallery, Redchurch Street, London)
Dec 2009: The Traditional London Street Market (E13 Learning Community, London)
May- June 2009: War Continuum (Kenneth More ...