拉基卜·肖（Raqib Shaw）出生于印度加尔各答，及后在克什米尔长大，他来自一个商人家庭，早期生活在古董、珠宝、异国织物和地毯中的经历，启发了他创作精致和色彩鲜艳的绘画。他创造了冠冕堂皇的怪异幻境，有嬉戏的猴王、系上皮筋的半人马、可怕的虎头和斑马武士居于此地。他描绘的世界是美丽的、可怕的、放荡的、奢华的、充满神话色彩的，幻象和他精致的技术令人振奋地互相辉映。
肖在桦木板和纸上的绘画，以及他的青铜雕塑，经常借鉴于东西方神话，以及艺术史上的巨作。他会利用这些典故建立构图或叙事框架，从他独特的视觉词典中添加元素，使用一系列不寻常的媒介 ── 包括水钻、闪粉和珐琅。他以精湛的技巧绘制人物、地毯、服装和神话景色，耗尽心思，使人想起自古用于装饰金属制品和陶瓷的景泰蓝技术。
肖经常出现自己的画作中，但往往与周围人物的行为截然不同。他通常描绘自己坐在地板上或床上，凝视水池、镜子或地图，就像一个诗人冥思世界的苦厄，或者一个艺术家被他脑海中幻象的强度震摄。在《佩克汉姆书房的自画像》（A Reverie after Antonello da Messina's Saint Jerome）（2014年）中，他将这名15世纪艺术家的作品重新演绎成一个狂想，当中充满恶魔般的骷髅、食尸鬼、色彩鲜艳的爬行猴子、闪烁的满月和一个中心人物 ── 蓝脸身穿花袍的萧尔 ── 头向后倾，显然在咯咯笑。他作品其中一个迷人之处是，他那诱人的、神秘的世界，要么浸淫其中，要么被拒绝。
肖在他位于伦敦南部佩卡姆（Peckham）的工作室生活和工作，于1992年首次到访这个城市，并于1998年入读中央圣马丁艺术与设计学院（Central St Martins），2002年完成他的硕士学位。毕业后不久，他的作品就参与了不同重要个展，包括爱丁堡苏格兰国立现代艺术馆（Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh）（2018年）、曼彻斯特惠特沃斯（Whitworth, Manchester ）（2017年）、布拉格鲁道夫音乐厅（Rudolfinium）（2013年）、曼彻斯特艺术馆（Manchester Art Gallery）（2013年）、纽约大都会艺术博物馆（The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York）（2008年）、北迈阿密当代艺术博物馆（Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami）（2006年）和伦敦泰特不列颠（Tate Britain, London）（2006年）。
2025
Raqib Shaw: Paradise Lost, Art Institute Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
2024
Raqib Shaw: Ballads of East and West, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA, USA
2023
Raqib Shaw: Ballads of East and West, Frist Museum, Nashville, USA
2022
Raqib Shaw: Tales from an Urban Garden, The Little House, Dries van Noten, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2021
Raqib Shaw: Reflections Upon the Looking-Glass River, Pace, Geneva, Switzerland
2019
Raqib Shaw: Landscapes of Kashmir, Pace, New York, NY, USA
2018
Raqib Shaw: Reinventing the Old Masters, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
2017
Raqib Shaw, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
2016
Self Portraits, White Cube Bermondsey, London, UK
White Cube at Glyndebourne: Raqib Shaw, 2016 Glyndebourne Festival, Glyndebourne, UK
2015
New Sculptures and Paintings, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
2014
Raqib Shaw: Paradise Lost, Pace Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2013
Raqib Shaw, Rudolfinium, Prague, Czech Republic
Raqib Shaw, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
2012
Of Beasts and Super Beasts, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
2011
Paradise Lost, White Cube, London, UK
2009
Absence of God, White Cube, London, UK
Absence of God, Karlsplatz Project Space, Kunsthalle Vienna, Vienna, Austria
2008
Raqib Shaw At The Met, The Metropollitan Museum, New York, NY, USA
2006
Art Now: Raqib Shaw, Tate Britain, London, UK
Raqib Shaw: Garden Of Earthly Delights, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami, FL, USA
2005
Raqib Shaw: Garden of Earthly Delights, Deitch Projects, New York, NY, USA
2004
Raqib Shaw: Garden of Earthly Delights, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
2024
ECCENTRIC: Aesthetics of Freedom, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
2023
MIRROR/ MAZE: Echoes of song, space, spectre, Works from the KNMA collection, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Delhi, India
Drawn into the Present: Portraits on Paper, Thaddaeus Ropac, London, UK
Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniature Painting and Britain, 1600 to Now, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
2019
Drawing Biennial 2019, Drawing Room, London, UK
2018
WOW! The Heidi Horten Collection, Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria
2016
Drawing Biennial 2015, Drawing Room, London, UK
2015
Thief Among Thieves, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, CO, USA
2014
Eurasia - A view on painting, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin, France
2013
Group Exhibition, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
2012
7th Asia Pacific Triennal, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times - Rebirth and Apocalypse in Contemporary Art, ARSENALE The First Kiev International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Kiev, Ukraine
Phantoms of Asia, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA
2011
Asian Contemporary Art from Private Collections, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
A Dream of Eternity, Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium
Painting Between the Lines, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA
East ex East, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
2010
Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action, White Cube, London, UK
The Beauty of Distance - 17th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Resonance, Suntory Museum, Osaka, Japan
2009
Nightmare full of unspeakable things, Concept V, New York, NY, USA
Taswir: Pictorial Mappings of Islam and Modernity, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
Flower Power, Villa Giulia, CRAA Centro Ricerca Arte Attuale, Verbania, Italy
Die Macht Des Ornaments (The Power Of Ornament), Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
2007
Panic room - Works from The Dakis Joannou Collection, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
2006
Around the World in Eighty Days, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
The Sixth Gwangju Biennale: Fever Variation, Gwangju, South Korea
Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking, MoMA | The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Passion for Paint, National Gallery, London; Bristol City Museum, Bristol; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK
Dan Attoe, Elliot Hundley, Raqib Shaw: There's No Fooling You (The Classics), Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2005
Expanded Painting, Prague Biennale, Prague, Czech Republic
2004
Plantmania! Art and the World of Plants, Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Sunderland, UK
2003
Nation and Nature, Vaster than Empires, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, Hastings; Worcester City Art Gallery, Worcester; The Yard Gallery, Nottingham; Lethaby Gallery, London, UK
2002
Direction 2002, The London Institute Gallery, London, UK
Chancellor's Forum, London College of Fashion, London, UK
2001
Future Map 2001, Lethaby Gallery, London, UK
India
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi
Norway
Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker
UK
Central Saint Martins, London
National Portrait Gallery, London
The Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
Tate, London
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
USA
Denver Art Museum, Denver
Rubell Family Collection, Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami
Seattle Art Museum, Washington
The Huntington, San Marino
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City