RASHEED ARAEEN: BARO HOUSE

Baró House is pleased to receive Rasheed Araeen. Born in Karachi, Pakistan, 1935. Lives and works in London, United Kingdom. Rasheed Araeen is a conceptual artist, sculptor, painter, writer, and curator. He graduated in civil engineering from the NED University of Engineering and Technology in 1962, and has been working as a visual artist since his arrival in London from Pakistan in 1964.

Araeen was trained as an engineer before moving to Europe in the 1960s to become one of the pioneers of minimalist sculpture in Britain. However he received no institutional recognition for his contribution to the modernist discourse in this country, being contribution to the modernist discourse in this country, being side-lined as a non-European whose work was consistently evaluated within the context of post-colonial structures. As a result of this, in the 1970s and 1980s his work – in performance, photography, painting and sculpture – began to develop an overtly political contest which drew attention to the way in which black artists were invisible within the dominant eurocentric culture.