The work of Prem Sahib (b. London, UK. Lives and works in London) embodies a poetic and provocative "destabilised minimalism", referencing the architecture of public and private spaces, structures that shape individual and communal identities, senses of belonging, alienation and confinement. Mixing the personal and political, abstraction and figuration, Sahib's formalism is suggestive of the body as well as its absence, drawing attention to traces of touch and frameworks of looking.

A solo exhibition, Documents of a recent past, opened in January 2025 in the Project Space at Studio Voltaire, London. In 2025 Sahib's commission as recipient of the Frampton Fund in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Arts will open at Walpole Park, Ealing, London, alongside a presentation, Doubles, at Pitzhanger Manor and Gallery, London. Alleus, a live performance work co-commissioned by Somerset House Studios and The Roberts Institute of Art, was performed in 2024 at Somerset House, and toured to the Edinburgh Art Festival. Recent exhibitions include The Life Cycle of a Flea, a solo presentation at Phillida Reid, London (October 2023) and forms of the surrounding futures, the 12th Goteborg Biennial for Contemporary Art, curated by Joao Laia (September - November 2023). Sahib's work has been shown widely institutionally including solo exhibitions Balconies, Kunstverein Hamburg (2017) and Side On, ICA London (2015) as well in group shows at Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE; Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland; Whitechapel Gallery; Hayward Gallery, London; KW Institute of Art, Berlin, Germany; Des Moines Art Centre, Iowa, USA; and the Gwangju Biennale, South Korea.

Their work is in the collections of Tate, The Arts Council, Government Art Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, UK; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA; Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Norway; X Museum, Beijing, China; and MONA, Australia.

That Fire Over There, an artist's book developed from Descent, Sahib's three-part show of 2020-21, was published in summer 2023 by Book Works, London.

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Photo: SelfPortraitinChariotsShoreditch_2016