Against a background of living between cultures, Rabiya Nagi’s painting practice draws on personal and collective memory as she investigates how the past shapes the present.  Through her paintings, Nagi interrogates the act of seeing and challenges our perception by constructing disconcerting visual stagings. These compositions, often unsettling, carry an uncanny sense of dislocation with a sense of the surreal.  Drawing from the language of film, Nagi works from her own work-specific imagery and reimagines reference photographs. Her work is also informed by literature and art history, which she recontextualizes and reimagines through a contemporary lens.

Nagi’s expanded painting practice explores other forms of expression on occasion which include moving image, text, and sculpture.

Education 

·     Central Saint Martins, (2021/23): MA Fine Art
·     Royal College of Art (2020/21): Graduate Diploma
·     Kensington and Chelsea College (2019/20): HNC
·     University College London: Master of Laws (LLM)

Group Shows

2025 - The Law Society Art Group Annual Exhibition, Lauderdale House, London, N6.
2025 - ‘Exposed’ group show, The Art Academy Gallery, SE1.
2024 - ‘OFFPRINT’, Tate Modern, Turbine Hall, London SW1.
2024 - The Law Society Art Group Annual Exhibition, The Landmark Art Centre, Teddington.
2024 - ‘OFFPRINT’, Tate Modern, London SW1.
2024 - ‘Agents of Deterioration, Sideshow’, Lethaby Gallery, London N1.
2023 - ‘Mootookakio’ssin: Creating in Spacetime’, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery,   Canada.
2023 - ‘Un(done)’, Hypha, Stratford, E20.
2023 - ‘Across and Over’ Royal College of Art, online.
2023 - ‘Ost’ - CSM, ‘Prisoners of Love’, Kopple City, EC2.
2023 - AN-X, ‘What We Thought We Knew’, Koppel Project Station, NW3.
2023 - Central Saint Martins graduation show.
2023 - The Law Society Art Group Annual Exhibition, Lauderdale House, Highgate, N6.
2023 - ‘Prisoners of Love: Affect, containment, and alternative futures’, Lethaby Gallery.
2023 - ‘Transparent Ritual’ Art Publications, Lethaby Gallery.
2022 - Annex Open Studios, CSM Archway Campus.
2022 - ‘MERCH’ Print Exhibition / Sale, Koppel X Gallery, Piccadilly Circus, W1.
2022 – ‘Without Space’ MFA Open Studios, CSM Archway Campus.
2022 - Rolls Building, London, EC4
2022 - Law Society Art Group Annual Exhibition, online.
2022 - ‘This is Not a Party’, MA Interim Show, Central St Martins, Trinity Buoy Wharf.
2021 - Rolls Building, London, EC4.
2021 - Shiftists, ‘Lingua Franker’, Hoxton 253, London, EC1.
2021 - Law Society Art Group Annual Exhibition, online.
2019 - Law Society Art Group Annual Exhibition.
2019 - Collage Arts Open Studios, Cumberland Road, Woodgreen N22.

 Awards

 ·    High Commendation, Law Society Art Group Annual Exhibition, 2025.
 ·    High Commendation, Law Society Art Group Annual Exhibition, 2024.
·     High Commendation, Law Society Art Group Annual Exhibition, 2023.
·     Laura Devine Prize, best 3-D work, Law Society Art Group Annual Exhibition, 2021.
·     Special Commendation, Law Society Art Group Annual Exhibition, 2019.

Residencies

 ·     Residency, ‘Prisoners of Love’, OPENing, London EC2, August -September 2023.

Publications

 ·    Artist Talk Magazine, 34/2024
 ·    OFFPRINT, Tate Modern
 ·    Across & Over, RCA X HSBC
 ·    Lingua Franker

Upcoming Events

·     AN-X group show, If I Become An Alien, Wimbledon
·     CHT group show, online.

Studio

Studio 124, Proposition studios, 279 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, London E2 0EL.