Saad Qureshi received his BA in Fine Art from Oxford Brookes University in 2007 and an MFA in Painting from The Slade School of Fine Art, London, in 2010. Described by Laura Cumming in the Observer as “one of our most pensive and poetic artists”, his sculptures give form to the ideas or stories by which we give meaning to human existence.
Recent solo exhibitions include Something About Paradise, conceived for the Chapel at Yorkshire Sculpture Park; Aicon Gallery, New York; and Gazelli Art House, London. Group exhibitions include I'Institut des Cultures d'Islam, Paris; Museum Arnhem; and Kunsthall 3,14, Bergen.
Qureshi has had public commissions at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford and Victoria, London and his work has been acquired by public collections including the Dipti Mathur Collection, California; The Farjam Foundation Collection, Dubai; The Bagri Foundation, London; the UNESCO Creative Cities Collection, Beijing; The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi; the Boston Consulting Group; and the Almarkhiya Gallery, Qatar as well as British and international private collections.
Qureshi was shortlisted for the 2021 SkyArts LANDMARKS public art commission.
He has received three ACE awards; the Celeste Prize, Rome; the Royal Society of British Sculptors bursary award; the Red Mansion Foundation Prize; and he was shortlisted for the Lecturis Award,
Amsterdam.
He features in the 2020 Thames & Hudson book 100 Sculptors of Tomorrow and is a Trustee of Yorkshire Sculpture Park.