Fazal Sheikh

♂ *1965 / United States

Works

Contacts for the work of Fazal Sheikh

Fazal Sheikh

FazalSheikh.com

Solo exhibitions

Erasure

and other photographs

stephan witschi galerie, Zürich (CH)
28 May 2026 – 29 Aug 2026
Thirst | Exposure | In Place

Denver Art Museum, Denver (US)
10 Mar 2024 – 20 Oct 2024
Exposures

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven (US)
9 Sep 2022 – 8 Jan 2023
Common Ground

Photographs by Fazal Sheikh, 1989 - 2013

Portland Art Museum, Portland (US)
24 Feb 2018 – 20 May 2018
Common Ground

Photographs by Fazal Sheikh, 1989-2013

Denver Art Museum, Denver (US)
13 Aug 2017 – 12 Nov 2017
Homelands and Histories

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (US)
6 May 2017 – 1 Oct 2017
Independence | Nakba

Pace / MacGill Gallery, New York (US)
21 Apr 2016 – 30 Jun 2016
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Sala Rekalde, Bilbao (ES)
2 Dec 2010 – 13 Feb 2011
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Biblioteca Luis Ángel , Bogotá (CO)
27 Jan 2010 – 26 Mar 2010
Beloved Daughters

Museum Photographic Arts, San Diego (US)
10 Oct 2009 – 31 Jan 2010
Beloved Daughters

Museum Photographic Arts, San Diego (US)
10 Oct 2009 – 31 Jan 2010
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Huis Marseille, Amsterdam (NL)
5 Sep 2009 – 22 Nov 2009
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Fundacion MAPFRE , Madrid (ES)
3 Apr 2009 – 31 May 2009
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Pace / MacGill Gallery, New York (US)
18 Oct 2007 – 24 Nov 2007
Moksha - Ladli

Fondation Cartier-Bresson, Paris (FR)
10 May 2007 – 26 Aug 2007
The Victor Weeps – Afganistan

CFF Centrum fotografi , Stockholm (SE)
7 May 2005 – 20 May 2005
A Camel for the Son: Somalia / The Victor Weeps

© Fazal Sheikh <br>from A Camel for the Son: Somalia

United Nations Headquarters, New York (US)
14 Oct 2004 – 25 Nov 2004
A Camel for the Son / The Victor Weeps

Fondation Cartier-Bresson, Paris (FR)
7 Apr 2004 – 26 Jul 2004
A camel for the son

Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow (RU)
19 Apr 2004 – 19 Jun 2004
The Victor Weeps

Scalo Project Space, New York (US)
5 Sep 2003 – 9 Nov 2003
Simpatia

Pace / MacGill Gallery, New York (US)
5 Sep 2002 – 19 Oct 2002

Group

Widening the Lens

Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape

Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix (US)
27 Feb 2025 – 15 Jun 2025

with David Alekhuogie, A.K. Burns, Melissa Catanese, Sam Contis, Cyprien Gaillard, David Hartt, Sky Hopinka, Justine Kurland, Dionne Lee, Mark McKnight, Erin Jane Nelson, Lucy Raven …
Widening the Lens

Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (US)
11 May 2024 – 12 Jan 2025

with David Alekhuogie, A.K. Burns, Melissa Catanese, Sam Contis, Cyprien Gaillard, David Hartt, Sky Hopinka, Justine Kurland, Dionne Lee, Mark McKnight, Erin Jane Nelson, Lucy Raven …
Selections from ICP at 50

From the Collection, 1845–2019

ICP Center of Photography, New York (US)
26 Sep 2024 – 6 Jan 2025

with Anonymous, Noel B. Baker, Cornell Capa, Robert Capa, Jess T. Dugan, Nona Faustine, Samuel Fosso, Cristina Garcia Rodero, Andre Kertesz, Deana Lawson, Susan Meiselas, NASA …
ICP at 50

From the Collection, 1845–2019

ICP Center of Photography, New York (US)
24 Jan 2024 – 6 May 2024

with Yto Barrada, Robert Capa, Jess T. Dugan, Nona Faustine, Larry Fink, Samuel Fosso, Louise Lawler, Deana Lawson, Helen Levitt, NASA , Gordon Parks, Robert Rauschenberg …
CURRENCY: PHOTOGRAPHY BEYOND CAPTURE

8th Triennal of Photography Hamburg 2022

Haus der Photographie, Hamburg (DE)
20 May 2022 – 18 Sep 2022

with Akinbode Akinbiyi, Claudia Andujar, Ziad Antar, Vartan Avakian, Ragnar Axelsson, Edson Chagas, Oroma Elewa, rana elnemr, Anne-Marie Filaire, Lyle Ashton Harris, Leslie Hewitt, Alfredo Jaar …
The Polaroid Project

At the Intersection of Art and Technology

MIT Museum, Boston (US)
11 Oct 2019 – 21 Jun 2020

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Sibylle Bergemann, Anna & Bernhard Blume, Guy Bourdin, Ellen Carey, Helen Chadwick, Chuck Close, Marie Cosindas, Barbara Crane, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Harold E. Edgerton, Joan Fontcuberta …
This Place

Israel Through Photography's Lens

Jüdisches Museum, Berlin (DE)
7 Jun 2019 – 19 Apr 2020

with Frederic Brenner, Wendy Ewald, Rosalind Fox Solomon, Martin Kollar, Josef Koudelka, Jung-Jin Lee, Gilles Peress, Stephen Shore, Thomas Struth, Jeff Wall, Nick Waplington
25 Years! Shared Histories, Shared Stories

25 Jahre! Gemeinsam Geschichte(n) schreiben

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (CH)
20 Oct 2018 – 10 Feb 2019

with Kristina Ollek , John Baldessari, Lewis Baltz, Becky Beasley, Besma Ben Said, Suky Best, Daniele Buetti, Hannah Collins, Antje Dorn, Jan Paul Evers, Valie Export, Nicolas Faure …
Das Polaroid Projekt

C/O Berlin, Berlin (DE)
7 Jul 2018 – 23 Sep 2018

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Sibylle Bergemann, Anna & Bernhard Blume, Guy Bourdin, Ellen Carey, Helen Chadwick, Chuck Close, Barbara Crane, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Joan Fontcuberta, Luigi Ghirri, Richard Hamilton …
THE POLAROID PROJECT

WestLicht, Wien (AT)
18 Nov 2017 – 25 Feb 2018

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Sibylle Bergemann, Anna & Bernhard Blume, Guy Bourdin, Ellen Carey, Helen Chadwick, Chuck Close, Marie Cosindas, Barbara Crane, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Joan Fontcuberta, Toto Frima …
Portraits

Fundación MAPFRE photography collection

Fundacion MAPFRE , Madrid (ES)
22 Jun 2017 – 3 Sep 2017

with Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Harry Callahan, Joan Colom, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Cristina Garcia Rodero, Alberto Garcia-Alix, Emmet Gowin, John Gutmann, Jitka Hanzlova …
Recent Acquisitions in Focus: Latent Narratives

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (US)
13 Sep 2016 – 29 Jan 2017

with Whitney Hubbs, Liza Ryan
This Place

Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn (US)
1 Feb 2016 – 5 Jun 2016

with Frederic Brenner, Wendy Ewald, Rosalind Fox Solomon, Martin Kollar, Josef Koudelka, Jungjin Lee, Gilles Peress, Stephen Shore, Thomas Struth, Jeff Wall, Nick Waplington
The 2015 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards

Aperture, New York (US)
12 Dec 2015 – 8 Feb 2016

with Annette Behrens, Noa Ben-Shalom, Sophie Bramly, Matthew Connors, Inaki Domingo, Siegfried Hansen, Sjoerd Knibbeler, Dana Lixenberg, Thomas Mailaender, Mike Mandel, Daniel Mayrit, Katarzyna Mazur …
This Place: Israel Through Photography's Lens

Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach (US)
15 Oct 2015 – 17 Jan 2016

with Frederic Brenner, Wendy Ewald, Rosalind Fox Solomon, Martin Kollar, Josef Koudelka, Jung-Jin Lee, Gilles Peress, Stephen Shore, Thomas Struth, Jeff Wall, Nick Waplington
THIS PLACE

The complexity of Israel and the West Bank through the eyes of twelve internationally acclaimed photographers.

Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv (IL)
14 May 2015 – 6 Sep 2015

with Frederic Brenner, Wendy Ewald, Rosalind Fox Solomon, Martin Kollar, Josef Koudelka, Jung-Jin Lee, Gilles Peress, Stephen Shore, Thomas Struth, Jeff Wall, Nick Waplington
BACK

Pace / MacGill Gallery, New York (US)
18 Jun 2015 – 28 Aug 2015

with Adou, Richard Benson, Harry Callahan, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Jim Goldberg, Emmet Gowin, Paul Graham, Peter Hujar, Jocelyn Lee, Nicholas Nixon, Tod Papageorge …
This Place

The complexity of Israel and the West Bank through the eyes of twelve internationally acclaimed photographers.

Dox Centre Contemporary Art, Praha (CZ)
24 Oct 2014 – 2 Mar 2015

with Frederic Brenner, Wendy Ewald, Rosalind Fox Solomon, Martin Kollar, Josef Koudelka, Jung-Jin Lee, Gilles Peress, Stephen Shore, Thomas Struth, Jeff Wall, Nick Waplington
Now You See It

Photography and Concealment

Metropolitan Museum 5th Ave, New York (US)
31 Mar 2014 – 1 Sep 2014

with Diane Arbus, Lutz Bacher, Thomas Demand, Mishka Henner, Vera Lutter, Jack Pierson, Miguel Rio Branco, Taryn Simon
40 Artists / 40 Years

Selections from the Light Work Collection

Light Work, Syracuse (US)
19 Aug 2013 – 25 Oct 2013

with Dawoud Bey, James Casebere, Lucas Foglia, Jim Goldberg, John Gossage, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Cindy Sherman, Hank Willis Thomas, Brian Ulrich, Carrie Mae Weems
Polaroid (Im)possible

The WestLicht Collection

WestLicht, Wien (AT)
17 Jun 2011 – 21 Aug 2011

with Ansel Adams, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Nobuyoshi Araki, Edouard Boubat, Paul Caponigro, Lucien Clergue, Charles Eames, Walker Evans, Toto Firma, Franco Fontana, Joan Fontcuberta, Gisele Freund …
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography

Metropolitan Museum 5th Ave, New York (US)
2 Jul 2010 – 13 Feb 2011

with Lothar Baumgarten, Matthew Buckingham, Rineke Dijkstra, Valie Export, WENG Fen, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Igor & Svetlana Kopystiansky, Allen Ruppersberg, Thomas Struth, Jeff Wall
8th Bamako Encounters, Biennial of African Photography- Borders

Maison Africaine Photo, Bamako (ML)
7 Nov 2009 – 7 Dec 2009

with Myriam Abdelaziz, Doa Aly, Kader Attia, Ismail Bahri, Abdoulaye Barry, Jack Beng-Thi, Lilia Benzid, Berry Bickle, Jodi Bieber, Ursula Biemann, Bruno Boudjelal, Mohamed Bourouissa …
Darkside 2

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (CH)
5 Sep 2009 – 15 Nov 2009

with Christian Boltanski, Antoine d'Agata, Hans Danuser, F. Holland Day, Maria Friberg, Nan Goldin, Peter Hujar, Sally Mann, Enrique Metinides, Shirin Neshat, Gilles Peress, Walid Raad (The Atlas Group) …
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2008

Deutsche Börse, Frankfurt (Main) (DE)
8 Sep 2008 – 17 Oct 2008

with John Davies, Jacob Holdt, Esko Maennikkoe
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2008

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C/O Berlin, Berlin (DE)
16 May 2008 – 13 Jul 2008

with John Davies, Jacob Holdt, Esko Maennikkoe
Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art

ICP Center of Photography, New York (US)
18 Jan 2008 – 4 May 2008

with Christian Boltanski, Tacita Dean, Stan Douglas, Harun Farocki, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Jef Geys, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Craigie Horsfield, Lamia Joreige, Zoe Leonard, Sherrie Levine, Ilán Lieberman …
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2008

Photographers' Gallery, London (GB)
8 Feb 2008 – 6 Apr 2008

with John Davies, Jacob Holdt, Esko Maennikkoe
Geschichten, Geschichte

Set 3 aus der Sammlung des Fotomuseums Winterthur

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (CH)
4 Mar 2006 – 5 Nov 2006

with Dennis Adams, Lewis Baltz, Lee Friedlander, Paul Graham, Andreas Gursky, Takashi Homma, Zbigniew Libera, Remy Markowitsch, Boris Mikhailov, Gilles Peress, Allan Sekula, Andres Serrano …
After the Fact

1. Berlin Photography Festival

Gropius Bau, Berlin (DE)
24 Sep 2005 – 14 Nov 2005

with Fernando Alvim, Jessica Backhaus, Ursula Biemann, Carlos Capelan, Leif Claesson, Jiri David, DOF, Christoph Draeger, Lukas Einsele, Maria Elvira Escallon, Ulrika Ferm, Rula Halawani …
DUAL. Transits i encreuaments per la història de l'art

Mueseu de Lleida Diocesà i Comarcal, Lleida (ES)
12 Jul 2005 – 23 Oct 2005

with Marina Abramovic, Christian Boltanski, Daniel Canogar, Javier Codesal, Roland Fischer, Mona Hatoum, ZHANG Huan, Kazuo Katase, Sigalit Landau, José Noguero, Pierre et Gilles, Bettina Rheims
In Response to Place: Photographs from The Nature Conservancy’s Last Great Places

Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio (US)
2 Sep 2005 – 9 Oct 2005

with William Christenberry, Lee Friedlander, Karen Halverson, Annie Leibovitz, Sally Mann, Richard Misrach, William Wegman
About Face: Photographic Portraits From the Collection

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (US)
9 Oct 2004 – 16 Jan 2005

with Richard Avedon, Chuck Close, Lalla Essaydi, Nan Goldin, Luis Gonzalez Palma, Alfredo Jaar, Rashid Johnson, Loretta Lux, Sally Mann, Susan Meiselas, Vik Muniz, Nicholas Nixon …
Staged realities: exposing the soul in african photography 1870 - 2004

"Constructing Power" + "From Coercion to Celebration"

Stevenson, Cape Town (ZA)
24 Mar 2004 – 8 May 2004

with Paul Alberts, Kelechi Amadi-Obi, Philip Kwame Apagya, Brett Bailey, Steven Cohen, Jean Depara, Doudou Diop, Patricia Driscoll, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, David Goldblatt, Constance Stuart Larrabee, Chris Ledochowski …
Staged realities: exposing the soul in african photography 1870 - 2004

"Family Ties" + "Composure" + "Exposing the Body"

Stevenson, Cape Town (ZA)
24 Mar 2004 – 8 May 2004

with Philip Kwame Apagya, Jean Depara, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Pieter Hugo, Constance Stuart Larrabee, Gideon Mendel, Youssef Nabil, Eileen Perrier, Berni Searle, Sue Williamson
Cruel and Tender. Fotografie und das Wirkliche

Museum Ludwig, Köln (DE)
6 Dec 2003 – 18 Feb 2004

with Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Lewis Baltz, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Rineke Dijkstra, William Eggleston, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Paul Graham, Andreas Gursky …
Cruel and Tender

Tate Modern, London (GB)
5 Jun 2003 – 7 Sep 2003

with Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Lewis Baltz, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Rineke Dijkstra, William Eggleston, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Paul Graham, Andreas Gursky …
images against war . a visual statement by 402 artists

Kuratiert von Tina Schelhorn

Galerie Lichtblick, Köln (DE)
28 Feb 2003 – 7 Jun 2003

with Xosé Abad, Steff Adams, Pilar Albajar, Antonio Altariba, Morten Andersen, Monika Anselment, Bernd Arnold, Ralph Bageritz, Giorgio Barrera, Harvey Benge, Steven Benson, Roman Bezjak …

Events

ZURICH ART WEEKEND 2026

ZURICH ART WEEKEND, Zürich (CH)
12 Jun 2026 – 14 Jun 2026

with Francis Alys, Sammy Baloji, Omar Victor Diop, Slawomir Elsner, Valie Export, Sasha Huber, Cédric Kouamé, Dinh Q. Le, Katalin Ladik, Jonathan Monk, Tshepiso Moropa, Aline Motta …
THIS PLACE : MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS - 13 PUBLICATIONS - DIGITAL INITIATIVE

THIS PLACE, New York (US)
24 Oct 2014 – 31 Dec 2015

with Frederic Brenner, Wendy Ewald, Rosalind Fox Solomon, Martin Kollar, Josef Koudelka, Jung-Jin Lee, Gilles Peress, Stephen Shore, Thomas Struth, Jeff Wall, Nick Waplington