Raqib Shaw (b. 1974, in Calcutta) is a Kashmiri artist who lives and works in London. He is known for his opulent and intricately detailed paintings of phantasmagorical dreamscapes, their surfaces inlaid with colorful jewels and enamels. His works reveal an eclectic combination of Western and Eastern influences, from Persian carpets and Northern Renaissance painting to industrial materials and Japanese lacquer. Shaw has exhibited internationally, most notably in “Without Boundary,” MoMA New York (2006), “Around the world in Eighty Days,” Major solo exhibitions have included the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami (2006), “Art Now,” Tate Britain (2006), The Metropolitan Museum, New York (2008), Kunsthalle Wien (2009), Manchester Art Gallery (2013), Whitworth Art Gallery (2017), and in “Reinventing the Old Masters” Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (2018). Furthermore at Ca’Pesaro International Gallery of Modern Art, Venice (2022). His exhibition at The Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom (2017) was reimagined for the Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh, in 2018. Shaw’s first traveling museum retrospective, Ballads of East and West, was on view at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville through December 31, 2023, before it travelled to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston in February 2024 where it will remain on view through May 12, 2024. Following its run in Boston, the show will be presented at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and finally at the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens in Southern California through March 2025.