Idris Khan – Artist Talk + Discussion about Creative Process
About
He has had artworks commissioned by the UAE The Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, British Museum and the New York Times Magazine, Peter Marino Architects, Whitworth Museum, Kettles Yard Museum. His work is held in major permanent collections including but not limited to: Arts Council Collection, London Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, The British Museum, London Centre Pompidou, Paris The de Young Museum ,San Francisco Government Art Collection, London Musée National des Beaux Arts, Québec The National Gallery of Art, London National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Philadelphia Museum of Art Saatchi Gallery, London San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel.
Commissioned as part of the development of One Blackfriars, Khan recently installed a sculptural work titled 65,000 Photographs, the artist's first permanent public artwork in the UK. Khan’s major commission for a permanent public monument for the new Memorial Park in Abu Dhabi was awarded the American Architecture Prize 2017. The piece was also shortlisted for the World Architecture Prize 2017. Idris Khan was appointed an OBE for services to Art in 2017.
Image Credits: St Paul’s Cathedral © Idris Khan, 2012
Location
St Paul's School
St Paul's School, Lonsdale Road, London, London SW13 9JT