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, he has exhibited both nationally and internationally.
Saleh studied MA Traditional Arts at The King’s Foundation,School of Traditional Arts, London, where he has been teaching carpet weaving since 2015.
His works are held in The Royal Collection Trust,The King's Foundation, British Museum, Bagri Foundation and The Islamic Art Museum, Malaysia.
شۆڕش ساڵح له كوردستان له‌دایك بوه و له شاری له‌نده‌ن ده‌ژی. كاری وێنه‌كێشان و فه‌رش چنین ده‌كات. كاره‌كانی زیاتر گوزارشت له كێشه‌ی شوناس و ئاواره‌بوون و جه‌نگ ده‌كات.
٢٠١٤ خوێندنی ماسته‌ری له هونه‌ری تردسیۆن دا ته‌واوكردوه له قوتابخانه‌ی شاهانە بۆ هونه‌ری ترادسیۆن- له‌نده‌ن. له ٢٠١٥ وه له هه‌مان زانكۆ خه‌ریكی كاری وانه ووتنه‌وه‌یه. له ده‌ره‌وه و ناوه‌وه‌ی به‌ریتانیا كاره‌كانی نمایشكردوه.
كاره‌كانی له‌م جێگه‌یانه پارێزراوون: كۆكراوه‌ی متمانه‌پێكراوی شاهانه- به‌ریتانیا. دامه‌زراوه‌ی شاهانە-
به‌ریتانیا. مۆزه‌خانه‌ی به‌ریتانیا- له‌نده‌ن. دامه‌زراوه‌ی باگری. مۆزه‌خانه‌ی هونه‌ری ئیسلامی- مالیزیا.
Contact:
07526 815421
Solo Exhibitions:
Remembering Yezidis, Faculty of Human Sciences ,Iraqi Kurdistan, 2015
Always Colour,Always Rain, Iraqi Kurdistan, 2000
Group Exhibitions:
Between Two Cultures: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2024
All Our Stories, Migration Museum, London, 2024-2025
What a Scenery, Pierhead Futures Gallery, Wales, 2024
Ashes to Ashes, Migration Museum, London, 2023
Exquisite Codes, Bla-Bla Projektraum, Berlin, Germany, 2023
Exquiste Codes, Court Square Exchange, Bridgeport, USA, 2023
SHIM Social Justice, Miami Art Week, USA, 2022
Take Refuge, Candid Arts trust , London, 2022
The Football Art Prize, Tour Exhibition, Touchstones,Rochdale and Millennium Gallery Sheffield & Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens 2021-2022
Re-Rooting, Folkestone Fringe Triennial, 2021
Making Paradise, Aga Khan Centre Gallery, London,2021
Refugees: Forced to Flee, Imperial War Museum, London, 2020-2021
World Conference on Statelessness, The Hague, 2019
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
