Shah’s practice examines various architectural, historical and personal iconographies through their formal and visceral qualities. Working with drawings, sculpture and photographs her recent work investigates idealized modernist projects ranging from housing projects to utopian city plans by breaking down their components. Using the basic elements of architecture such as the wall, grid, and column her work examines the qualities of Brutalist architecture within the landscape. Working through concepts of construction and structural repetition her work examines the ambiguity of these objects within the landscape.

Seher Shah received her Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1998. Select recent exhibitions include Radiant Lines, Nature Morte Berlin (solo), Object Anxiety, Scaramouche, New York (solo), Paper to Monument, Nature Morte, New Delhi (solo), Brute Ornament at the Green Art Gallery, Lines of Control at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, On Rage at the Haus der Kulteren der Welt, Berlin, Eccentric Architecture and Generation 1. 5, Queens Museum of Art, Drawing Space at Green Cardamom, New York to Los Angeles at GBK, Sydney and Zeichnungen: conceptual and concrete drawings at the Gisele Linder gallery, Basel.

Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Brooklyn Museum, Queens Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, Devi Art Foundation, Deutsche Bank Art Contemporary, the Progressive Art collection, and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Foundation, Vienna, Austria (T-B-A21), amongst others. She has had reviews in Artforum, New York Times, Art Asia Pacific, Bidoun, Art Papers, Newsweek, and Frieze Magazine amongst others.