Shorsh Saleh is a Kurdish mixed media artist, carpet designer and weaver. His works focus on the subject of migration, border and identity, Based in the UK, Saleh has exhibited both nationally and internationally.
He studied MA Traditional Arts at The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts, where he has been teaching carpet weaving since 2015. Saleh has also been teaching at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha since 2017.
His works are held in the Royal Collection Trust, the British Museum, the Bagri Foundation and The Islamic Art Museum, Malaysia.
Contacts:
0044 752681 5421
Solo Exhibitions:
Remembering Yezidis, Faculty of Human Sciences ,Iraqi Kurdistan, 2015
Always Colour,Always Rain, Iraqi Kurdistan, 2000
Group Exhibitions:
Carpet pages ll, The Art Pavilion, London,2019
Sink Without Trace, P21 Gallery, London, 2019
Borderless, Migration Museum, London, 2019
Branches, Manor House, London, 2019
The Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic World, British Museum, 2018
Carpet Pages l, Willesden Green Gallery, London, 2018
Prince & Patron, Buckingham Palace, 2018
Kurdish Diaspora, Red Door Studios, London, 2018
Contemporary Art through Living Tradition, PSTA Gallery, London, 2018
Meridian Stone Project, Street Road Artists Space, USA, 2017
Mother Love, Berlin, Germany, 2015- 2016
Mother Love, Lebanon, 2016
University of Sulimanyha, Iraqi Kurdistan, 2015
Degree Show, The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts, London, 2014
Open Show, Leeds Art Gallery, 2010
Final Day, Temple Works, Leeds, 2009
Anfal,Kurdish Art and Culture, Manchester, UK, 2008
Nawroz, Kurdish Art and Culture, Manchester, UK, 2007
Remembering Halabja Kurdish Art and Culture, Manchester, UK, 2006
