Existing in-between the familiar and unfamiliar, Tai Shani’s sculptural installations depict and explore fantastical utopias, post-patriarchal realities and the structure of subjectivity. Also working in performance, film, photography and experimental text, Shani is inspired by narratives and histories of disparate and unknown sources. The artist explores the feminine otherness in works such as DC: Semiramis (2018), in which Shani adapted Christine de Pizan’s pioneering feminist book The Book of the City of Ladies (1405). Joint 2019 Turner Prize winner, alongside artists Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock and Oscar Murillo, Shani experiments with shapes and scales, speaking the language of excess in the shades of pink and purple.

Tai Shani is a British artist. She uses performance, film, photography, sculptural installations and experimental texts to explore forgotten histories and stories. 
In 2019, her work DC: SEMIRAMIS commissioned by Glasgow International (May–April 2018) and The Tetley, Leeds (July–October 2018), and her participation in Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance at Nottingham Contemporary and the De Le Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, was nominated for the Turner Prize. She was awarded the Prize, along with three other artists, after jointly requesting from the jury that all four artists win "in the name of commonality, multiplicity and solidarity".
Shani has spoken about the inaccessibility of performance art, as well as against cuts to arts funding and the increasingly "expansionist, market and state-driven managerial approach within museums and galleries", expressing solidarity with striking arts workers during the 2020 pandemic.
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London

Turner Prize

Glasgow International

Glasgow

Athens Biennale

Athens

Drawing biennial

Brussels

Art Brussels

Bologna

P420

Paris

Gaudel De Stampa

Goldsmiths CCA

Somerset House

Bristol

Arnolfini

Nottingham

Nottingham Contemporary

Hayward Gallery

Royal Academy of Arts

Berlin

Neue Gesellschaft Fur Bildende Kunst

ICA London

The Barbican

Gasworks

Tai Shani

Runway

Dark Continent: SEMIRAMIS