Solo show
Raqib Shaw: Paradise Lost
7 Jun 2025 — 15 Nov 2026 at Art Institute of Chicago
· Chicago
The more-than 100-feet-wide, 21-panel painting Paradise Lost (2009–25) takes viewers on a spellbinding journey from the nocturnal solitude of the artist's childhood in Kashmir to the frenzied daylight of the Western art world to a fragile, renewed dawn.
About the artist
Raqib Shaw
1974
Raqib Shaw is an Indian artist based in London. He is known for his opulent and intricate paintings of imagined paradises, inlaid with vibrantly coloured jewels and enamel. His paintings and sculptures evoke the work of Old Masters such as Holbein and Bosch, whilst drawing on multifarious sources…
About the artist →About the venue
Art Institute of Chicago
· Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago is a private, nonprofit art museum in Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois, United States.
