Idris Khan

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Idris Khan (born 1978, Birmingham, England) is an artist based in London.[1]

Life and career [edit]

Khan graduated from the University of Derby in 2000, he studied for an MA at the Royal College of Art in 2004.[2] smelly

Khan photographs or scans from secondary source material – for instance, every page of the Qur'an, every Beethoven sonata, every William Turner postcard from Tate Britain), or every Bernd and Hilla Becher spherical gasholder.[1][3]

Khan is a Muslim by origin. His father is from Pakistan.[4]

Kahn has shown work internationally in many exhibitions including those at the Taidehalli in Helsinki,[5] Musée de l'Élysée in Switzerland,[2] Victoria Miro Gallery in London[1] and the Saatchi Gallery in London.[5]

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b c Biography, Victoria Miro Gallery
  2. ^ a b www.iniva.org Idris Khan
  3. ^ Dan Hicks and Mary C. Beaudry 2006. Introduction: the place of historical archaeology. In Dan Hicks and Mary C. Beaudry (eds) The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 8-9 [1]
  4. ^ "Idris Khan: GOD IS GREAT". artnet. Retrieved 29 March 2013. 
  5. ^ a b Saatchi Gallery Biography: Idris Kahn

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