Verified Artist
Shafi Quraishy
Shafi Quraishy
Painting
Digital Art
Drawing
Mixed Media
Oil on Canvas, Acrylic on Canva, Mixed Media Painting
1000+
Artworks Created
104
Global Exhibitions
33+
Years Experience
SHAFI QURAISHY
ARTIST | MULTIDISCIPLINARY CREATIVE RESEARCHER Dubai, United Arab Emirates • Indian-born • Three decades of practice.
Shafi Quraishy is a Dubai-based multidisciplinary artist and independent creative researcher whose practice moves across painting, drawing, sculpture, architectural imagination and art-science inquiry. His work examines consciousness, ecology, technological futures, political tension and the inner life of the human being. After an early foundation in abstract expressionism, his visual language evolved toward a layered synthesis of abstraction, figuration, speculative environments and research-led concepts.
ARTISTIC DIRECTION
Monumental and highly detailed painting with an emphasis on psychological scale and visual intensity. Research-led projects connecting art, architecture, climate, invention and social imagination. A recurring investigation of nature, consciousness, future systems and humanity under pressure.
SELECTED RECOGNITION
India Youth Icon Award nominee, 2009 - the only artist among the nominees. Invited to the Prime Minister of India's to his official house VVIP gathering 2009. Indian representative, Asian Elephant Art & Conservation Project, New York.
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Independent artist and multidisciplinary creative researcher. Illustrator for India Today during the early stage of his career. Participant and on-screen narrator/lead contributor in MTV International's Road Rules India episode. Founder and creative director of long-term art, design and invention initiatives in Dubai.
SELECTED EXHIBITION CONTEXTS
Satellite Gallery, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai - presented during the Art Dubai period. Asian Elephant Art & Conservation Project international conservation-art platform. Independent presentations spanning painting, interdisciplinary concepts and future-oriented visual research.
CORE PRACTICE
Painting: abstraction, figuration and hybrid visual languages. Drawing and image-making as tools for psychological and conceptual investigation. Sculptural and architectural imagination for museum-scale and public-facing projects. Interdisciplinary research connecting art, science, environment and future systems.
RESEARCH THEMES
Human consciousness and internal emotional landscapes. Climate futures, ecological transformation and environmental imagination. Technology, invention and the visual culture of possible futures. World politics, collective anxiety, social rupture and resilience
WORKING METHODS
Large-scale composition and layered visual detail. Research notes, diagrams, conceptual drawings and speculative models. Cross-disciplinary collaboration with architects, engineers and institutions.
SELECTED INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECTS
CLOUD FARMS - A speculative art-science and environmental systems project imagining the formation and relocation of clouds, climate intervention, water futures and new ecological infrastructures.
G-POWER PLANTS - A long-term gravity-based energy concept that extends the artist’s inquiry into unseen forces, mechanical movement, resilience and the aesthetics of energy systems.
FIREALERTAPP - A visual emergency-communication platform shaped by art, cognitive design and behavioural understanding, translating complex crisis information into rapid human clarity.
MUSEUM & ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPTS - Large-scale visual proposals exploring museums, sacred spaces, research environments and public architecture as immersive cultural narratives.
MEDIA & CULTURAL EXPERIENCE
Editorial illustration and visual communication. Television and moving-image participation. Artistic writing, lyric writing and narrative development. Entrepreneurial leadership across creative and invention-led ventures.
ARTIST | MULTIDISCIPLINARY CREATIVE RESEARCHER Dubai, United Arab Emirates • Indian-born • Three decades of practice.
Shafi Quraishy is a Dubai-based multidisciplinary artist and independent creative researcher whose practice moves across painting, drawing, sculpture, architectural imagination and art-science inquiry. His work examines consciousness, ecology, technological futures, political tension and the inner life of the human being. After an early foundation in abstract expressionism, his visual language evolved toward a layered synthesis of abstraction, figuration, speculative environments and research-led concepts.
ARTISTIC DIRECTION
Monumental and highly detailed painting with an emphasis on psychological scale and visual intensity. Research-led projects connecting art, architecture, climate, invention and social imagination. A recurring investigation of nature, consciousness, future systems and humanity under pressure.
SELECTED RECOGNITION
India Youth Icon Award nominee, 2009 - the only artist among the nominees. Invited to the Prime Minister of India's to his official house VVIP gathering 2009. Indian representative, Asian Elephant Art & Conservation Project, New York.
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Independent artist and multidisciplinary creative researcher. Illustrator for India Today during the early stage of his career. Participant and on-screen narrator/lead contributor in MTV International's Road Rules India episode. Founder and creative director of long-term art, design and invention initiatives in Dubai.
SELECTED EXHIBITION CONTEXTS
Satellite Gallery, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai - presented during the Art Dubai period. Asian Elephant Art & Conservation Project international conservation-art platform. Independent presentations spanning painting, interdisciplinary concepts and future-oriented visual research.
CORE PRACTICE
Painting: abstraction, figuration and hybrid visual languages. Drawing and image-making as tools for psychological and conceptual investigation. Sculptural and architectural imagination for museum-scale and public-facing projects. Interdisciplinary research connecting art, science, environment and future systems.
RESEARCH THEMES
Human consciousness and internal emotional landscapes. Climate futures, ecological transformation and environmental imagination. Technology, invention and the visual culture of possible futures. World politics, collective anxiety, social rupture and resilience
WORKING METHODS
Large-scale composition and layered visual detail. Research notes, diagrams, conceptual drawings and speculative models. Cross-disciplinary collaboration with architects, engineers and institutions.
SELECTED INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECTS
CLOUD FARMS - A speculative art-science and environmental systems project imagining the formation and relocation of clouds, climate intervention, water futures and new ecological infrastructures.
G-POWER PLANTS - A long-term gravity-based energy concept that extends the artist’s inquiry into unseen forces, mechanical movement, resilience and the aesthetics of energy systems.
FIREALERTAPP - A visual emergency-communication platform shaped by art, cognitive design and behavioural understanding, translating complex crisis information into rapid human clarity.
MUSEUM & ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPTS - Large-scale visual proposals exploring museums, sacred spaces, research environments and public architecture as immersive cultural narratives.
MEDIA & CULTURAL EXPERIENCE
Editorial illustration and visual communication. Television and moving-image participation. Artistic writing, lyric writing and narrative development. Entrepreneurial leadership across creative and invention-led ventures.
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