Shumaiya Khan

Shumaiya Khan is an artist, writer, and creative. Born 1990, in Bradford, West Yorkshire to a British Bengali family, before moving to London to pursue higher education where she resides to this day. Khan comes from a design-led background, earning her BA Hons in Design from Goldsmiths, University of London. Although she has always painted, she only fully resumed her art practice in April of 2020. Khan is self-taught and her work has always had an element of experimentation with textures and motion within an abstract framework built to engage emotion within her audience.

Within her earlier critical theory design work, this has translated into recording statistics in visually fluid, quantifiable, and measurable ways, via the use of ink, ceramics, and plants. Between 2010 to 2019, Khan’s sole focus was her creative & art direction roles within fashion, homeware, and beauty.

Khan produces contemporary abstract expressionist pieces via the use of acrylic, charcoal, chalk, and poetry across canvas and paper. At times, especially with her larger-scale abstract pieces, pigment is worked and layered into pieces over a series of days or weeks. Different viscosities of pigment are considered, adding dimension and rich texture into the v...

BA Hons Design. Goldsmiths University of London ‘09 - ‘13

Foundation in Art & Design, Leeds College of Art ‘08 - ‘09

Affordable Art Fair via ArtFriend, Battersea, London. October 2023.

PLURALITY NOW NEW FUTURES, group show, Segolene Py.
198 Contemporary Arts, London SE24 0JT. 13-28th September 2023

2 more shows are currently TBA and under NDA, Oct 2023, and Sept ‘23- Feb ‘24.