Museum Exhibition

Raqib Shaw at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Posted: 28 May 2024

Raqib Shaw, *Ode to the Country Without a Post Office*, 2019-20. © Raqib Shaw. Photo © White Cube (Theo Christelis)

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9 June - 2 September 2024

Houston, Texas

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents ‘Raqib Shaw: Ballads of East and West’. The exhibition weaves narratives that connect Shaw’s childhood memories of growing up in Kashmir with powerful visual reflections on the urgent climate crisis. Some paintings depict paradisiacal scenes, while others offer Boschian landscapes engulfed in flames. In ‘Ballads of East and West’, Shaw envisions a world where these dichotomies are subsumed into a realm of imagination. The exhibition will be on view at the Museum’s Audrey Jones Beck Building.

‘Raqib Shaw: Ballads of East and West’ first opened at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, Tennessee in September 2023, and subsequently at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts in February 2024. Following its showcase at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the exhibition will be on view at The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, from November 2024 to March 2025.