Raheel Khan is an artist and musician exploring the interstices of sound, installation and performance. Originally a student of Economics, Khan grounds his artistic practice in archiving momentary pieces of time that would otherwise get lost, stolen or deleted, finding and re-defining language to refer to the present from the tools of the past. Through subject and material, presentations observe the tension between secular and non-secular spaces and their effects on transnationalism, cultural infrastructures and future policy. Raheel often abstracts this through the poetics of a compositional framework he describes as machine, devotion and the acoustic.
Selected exhibitions include Lisson Gallery and The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London, 2024; Longsight Community Art Space, Manchester, 2024; Deptford X, London, 2023; Ovada Gallery, Oxford, 2023; Manchester Art Gallery, 2023; Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh, 2022; FACT, Liverpool, 2021. Raheel’s selected performances and talks have taken place at various institutions including, Cromwell Place, Whitechapel Gallery, London, Tramway Gallery, and Manchester International Festival, Manchester.
Raheel was recently awarded the Almacantar studio residency and bursary for his MFA degree show at Goldsmiths, as well as the Lisson Gallery and Aziz Foundation scholarships.
In 2025 Raheel will present a new commission for Nottingham Contemporary as part of an ambitious group exhibition, ‘Your Ears later Will Know to Listen’, which explores sound’s ability to map, travel and transition across cultures, times and experience.