Shiraz Bayjoo is a multidisciplinary artist who works with film, painting, photography, performance, and installation. His research-based practice focuses on personal and public archives addressing cultural memory and postcolonial nationhood in a manner that challenges dominant cultural narrative. Bayjoo studied at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff. He was artist in residence at Whitechapel Gallery in 2011 and has exhibited with Tate Britain and the Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva). He is a recipient of the Gasworks fellowship and the UK Arts Council grants for the arts. Selected recent exhibitions include: Art Night London (2019); 14th Biennale of Sharjah (2019); Searching for Libertalia, New Art Exchange (2019); 4th Biennale de Casablanca (2018); 1-54 African Art Fair Lounge commission, Somerset House, London (2018); Representation Remembrance and the Memorial, Monash University, Australia (2018); 13th Biennale de Dakar, Senegal (2018); 21st Biennale of Sydney (2018) and Ephemeral Coasts, Glyyn Vivian Art Gallery, Wales (2018)