Education
2011-2015 BM BCh Medicine, Oxford University
2005-2007 MA Fine Art, Slade School of Art, University College London
2001-2005 BA Fine Art (1st Class), Foundation in Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art, London
1998-2001 BA Physiology (1st Class), 1st BM Medicine (Parts 1 & 2) Oxford University
Roles
2015 (onwards) Resident Doctor (Psychiatry), SE Scotland
2012 Visiting Lecturer, Experimental Film, MSc Film Studies, University of Edinburgh
2008-2009 Artist- in-Residence, Maths Department, University College London
Awards
2012 Film & Video Umbrella / Jerwood Production Award, 'Tomorrow Never Knows'
2011 Film & Video Umbrella / Jerwood Development Award, 'Tomorrow Never Knows'
2010 LUX Associate Artist 2010/2011
2008 Wellcome Trust Art Award, 'Ravelling, Unravelling'
Solo Exhibitions
2011 'Naheed Raza', 126 Gallery, Galway, Ireland
2011 'Naheed Raza', St Carthage Hall, Lismore Castle Arts, Ireland
2011 'Naheed Raza', Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh, Scotland
2011 'Naheed Raza', WAAR Project Space, Amsterdam
2010 'COMMA 22: Naheed Raza', Bloomberg SPACE, London
2009 'RAVELLING, UNRAVELLING', Royal Institution of Great Britain, London
2006 'WALL', Slade Research Centre, Woburn Square, London
2002 ‘WALL’, Henry Moore Plinth, Chelsea College of Art, London
Group Exhibitions / Events / Screenings
2018 Seeing Systems, ArtScience Museum, Singapore
2015 'Naheed Raza Screening and Q & A with Francis McKee', Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle
2015 'FILMING ABSTRACTION', Whitechapel Gallery, London
2015 'WENDLEWURTH', Turf Projects, Wandle Park, London
2014 'The Waste Land Trilogy', (various venues), London
2014 'SELECTED III: US Tour'; Northwest Film Centre, Portland; Seattle International Film Festival; Artists Television Access, San Francisco; Space 55, Phoenix; Exploded View Gallery, Tuscon; Exho Park Film Centre, New York; Hillyer Art Space, Washington DC
2014 'FILM EXERCISE: FROZEN IN TIME', Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
2013 'SELECTED III' ; Nottingham Contemporary, Duke of York's Cinema, Brighton, Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle, CCA, Glasgow, FACT, Liverpool, Whitechapel Gallery
2013 'TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS: Ed Atkins & Naheed Raza', CCA, Glasgow
2013 'ARTIST FILM CLUB: Naheed Raza', ICA, London
2013 'TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS', Jerwood Space, London
2013 'VIEWS FROM THE UK: CONTEMPORARY BRITISH EXPERIMENTAL FILM', Freiberg, Germany
2012 '4 DIALOGUES', Waterpieces International Film & Video Festival, Riga, Latvia
2012 'TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS', Jerwood Space, London
2010 'THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND', Centre for Contemporary Art Glasgow
2010 '64th EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL', Filmhouse, Edinburgh
2010 'LOOPS', Performance Event curated by Sam Belifante, Chelsea SPACE, London
2010 'LINE JOURNEYS' Collyer Bristow Gallery, London
2009 'DURATION', Screening, Candid Arts Trust, London
2009 'L'AISLE / NO FUTURE', Centro Cultural Correios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2008 'IN IT'S WAKE', Elevator Gallery, London
2008 'A GOTHIC STORY', Shoreditch Town Hall, London
2007 'SALON GRADUATES 2007', Salon Gallery, Westbourne Grove, London
2007 ‘TURTLE’, Slade Research Centre, London
2006 ‘BOXED POTENTIAL’, Expodium Gallery, Utrecht, Netherlands
2005 ‘LATE AT TATE’, Evening of performances and screeings of work by Chelsea Student and Staff at Tate Britain, London
2003 ‘CIRCUS’, Exhibition curated by Peter Blake, London Institute Gallery
2001 'XHIBIT 01', Exhibition of work by Chelsea Student and Staff, London Institute Gallery
2000 'ROYAL ACADEMY SUMMER EXHIBITION', Royal Academy, London
Publications/Editions
2016 'Mile of String' features in 'Mathematics and Art: A Cultural History' A book by Lynn Gamwell, Princeton University Press
2009 'RAVELLING, UNRAVELLING' A collection of commissioned essays on the theme of 'entanglement' by the artist Naheed Raza ('The Ties That Bind Us'), Steven Connor, Professor of Literature & Theory, Birkbeck College London ('Witchknots, Knitwits & Knots Intrinsicate'), Dr Elena Orlova, Specialist in Macromolecular structures, Birkbeck College London ('Nature Doesn't Favour Rigid Structures') and Poet/Ethnographer Tom Lowenstein ('Inner Tangle, Outer Tangle: A Buddhist & Shamanistic Poetic') To purchase a copy (£6.50 inc. p&p) please contact the artist
2007 'CHANNELS', CD Audio Release, Slade Audio Club : A collaboration with artist Sara Bjarland
Scientific Work