Imran Perretta

Underpinning Imran's practice are questions around alterity, neo-coloniality and the process of identity forming in a post-9/11 era characterised by austerity, state-sponsored Islamophobia and the War on Terror.

Imran was named a Turner Prize Bursary winner in 2020 and was a recipient of a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Artist Award in 2023. He was also nominated for the Jarman Award in 2019 and was a winner of the Jerwood/FVU award in 2017/18. Recent exhibitions, screenings and performances include: tears of the fatherland, Secession, Vienna (2024), The Condition of Being Addressable, ICA LA (2022), SUROOR for CTM Festival, Berlin and Whitechapel Gallery, London (2022), the destructors, Spike Island, Bristol, Chisenhale Gallery, London, the Whitworth, Manchester and BALTIC, Gateshead (2020-21) and Rotterdam International Film Festival; AMRA (in collaboration with Paul Purgas) for Art Night London, (2020-21).

Most recently, Perretta has been commissioned by Somerset House Studios to create the upcoming exhibition, A Riot in Three Acts. Through music, sculpture and performance, Perretta revisits his experience as a young person during the London Riots in 2011; exploring the narratives of our urban spaces, and the social inequality and racial violence that shape them.