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2022
2022
- Co-existent Ruins
Exploring Iraq’s Mesopotamian past through contemporary art - Lu Xun’s Legacy
Printmaking in Modern China - In a Pot of Hot Soup
Contemporary Nigerian Art - Crafting Subversion
DIY and Decolonial Print - Forward to the Past
Re-engaging Uli in New Experiments - Empty Cradles
Israel’s Disappeared Children
2021
- Collectors, Curators, Connoisseurs
100 Years of The Oriental Ceramic Society - Our Sophisticated Weapon
Posters of the Mozambican Revolution - Baghs: Abstract Gardens
The Karun Thakar Collections - Suspect Objects Suspect Subjects
The artwork of Faisal Hussain - Opium, Silk and the Missionaries in China
2020
- Co-Existent Ruins (virtual exhibition)
Exploring Iraq’s Mesopotamian Past Through Contemporary Art - Embodied Liberation II (virtual exhibition)
The Textual, Ethnographic and Historical Research of the Hatha Yoga Project - Ancient Vessels: A Visual and Material History of Food and Drink in China
Curated by Dr Stacey Pierson - A Passage Through Passages
On roads in South Asia - Yama
The mining art of Sakubei Yamamoto - Embodied Liberation
The Textual, Ethnographic and Historical Research of the Hatha Yoga Project - Western Front - Eastern Promises
Photography, Trench Art and Iconography of the Chinese Labour Corps in the Great War
2019
- African Textiles
Karun Thakar Collection - A Secret Beauty
The spirit of Japanese Makie: the lacquer work of Koyanagi Tanekuni - Stolen Moments - Namibian Music History Untold
In association with the SOAS Music Department - African Gaze - Hollywood; Bollywood and Nollywood film posters from Ghana
From the Collection of Karun Thakar & the late Mark Shivas - Ruhleben 1914 – 1918
A Photographic exhibition of African diaspora and Arab civilians interned in Germany - Hassan Musa - The Artist's Stamp
Mail Art from the SOAS Archives & Special Collections and a sampler of his paintings and illustrated books. - Motions of This Kind
An exhibition of Modern art from the Philippines
2018
- Living Zoroastrianism
A Virtual Reality (VR) experience - From Kabul to Kolkata: Of Belonging, Memories and Identity
A photography exhibition by Moska Najib and Nazes Afroz - Master - An Ainu Story
A photographic Exhibition by Adam Isfendiyar - The Curious Case of Çatalhöyük
Archaeology from the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Çatalhöyük in Central Turkey - Empire of the Sikhs
A major exhibition on the remarkable story of the Sikh Empire - From Madras to Bangalore
Picture Postcards as Urban History of Colonial India - MaRock - Foreign Nationals
Photography of Botswana’s Heavy Metal Cowboys by Aldo Brincat - China and Siam
Through the Lens of John Thomson - An exhibition of Artists responses to the 'Legacies of Biafra'
- From Tribal Forest to Urban Jungle
Photographs from Central India by Verrier Elwin
2017
- Music, Faith and Diplomacy Along the Silk Road
Objects from SOAS's own collections - Fairgrounds of the Faithful
Moulds - the Sufi Festivals of EgyptOf The Faithful - Behind the Indian Boom
Inequality and Resistance at the heart of economic growth - Les Sapeuses - Lady Dandies Of The DRC
Photographs by Junior D Kannah - Embroidered Tales & Woven Dreams
Textile traditions from the Silk Road to Arabia. Curated by Marian Chanduray (Bhukari) - Celebrating Art and Music: The SOAS Collections
Centenary Celebration Exhibition. Curated by Anna Contadini - A Perilous Journey: Stories of Migration
PositiveNegatives in partnership with SOAS - Celebrating Art and Music: The SOAS Collections
Centenary Celebration Exhibition. Curated by Anna Contadini - Buildings That Fill My Eye: Architectural Heritage of Yemen
Photography by Trevor Marchand - Mohau Modisakeng: Beyond the Liminal Space
Selected photographs by the South African Artist - Usakos - Photographs Beyond Ruins
The Old Location Albums 1920’s – 1960’s
2016
- Academics, Agents & Activists
A History of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1916-2016. Curated by Stacey Pierson & John Hollingworth - Sand in My Eyes
Sudanese Moments by Enikö Nagy - In Search of Lost Time الذاكرة على عجل
An exhibition that explores the complex relationship between image, speed and time in the Gulf - World Ikat Textiles
Curated by Edric Ong & Manjari Nirula - Hong Ling: A Retrospective 洪凌回顧展
A retrospective by the celebrated Chinese painter Hong Ling (b.1955)
2015
- Missionaries and Idols in Polynesia
An exhibition documenting the London Missionary Society from 1792 to 1825 - Dark Water - ‘Cambodia’s UXO Salvage Divers’
Photographs by Charles Fox - One Thousand Cranes, One Thousand Hopes
An installation by Yozo Hirayama - The Circle of Twelve
Installation by artist and ceramicist Yozo Hirayama - The Art of Integration ‘Islam in England's green and pleasant land'
Photographs by Peter Sanders - Tentmakers of Islamic Cairo
Photographs by Massimiliano Fusari - The Arts of Southeast Asia from the SOAS Collections
Highlighting the breadth of the region’s cultures as represented in the SOAS collections - Maps of Persia 1477-1925
A graphical journey through the history of Iran - The future of the rural world? India's villages 1950-2015
- The Painted Forest Villages of Hazaribagh
- Triumph of the Grassroots: British Social History 1972-2012
- Papaver Rhoeas
2014
- Serendipity Revealed
Contemporary Sri Lankan Art - Empire, Faith and War
The Sikhs and World War One - Living Shrines: Uyghur Manifestations of Faith, Saints and Islam in Western China
Photographs and Video by Lisa Ross Curated by Jolaine Frizzell - The Spiritual Highway: Religious World Making in Megacity Lagos
A photography project by Akintunde Akinleye and Marloes Janson - Recalling The Future: post revolutionary Iranian art
Post 1979 Iranian revolution artworks by 29 Iranian artists - The Life and Afterlife of David Livingstone
Exploring missionary archives
2013
- The Everlasting Flame
Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination - 1000 Years of the Art of Japanese Books
Treasures from the Tenri Central Library - Colours of Change
A photographic study of Sri Lanka by Stephen Champion of the passing time of balance (Dharmadeepa), conflict (War Stories) and the new urban (Colours of Change). - Behind a Camera in Front a Hawza
Photography by Massimiliano Fusari / Massimedia. A visual exploration of the Muslim Shi'a seminaries of Syria and Bahrain through a collection of 24 colour photographs. - World Eco-Fiber & Textile Art
An exploration of Malaysian textiles traditions and contemporary work - Sacred London
A photographic exhibition of Tamil religious ceremony in London - Sanctuary: Home, Away, Common Ground
A collaborative exhibition of 5 African and 5 European artists
2012
- The British In Palestine - 1917-1948
Palestine under the British Mandate - Pirates, Merchants & Shipping on the North China Coast
Images, accounts and records of John Swire & Sons, from the early 1900's held in the SOAS Archives - Sacred Ink – The Tattoo Master
Thailand's spiritual "Yantra" tattoo tradition, Photographs by Cedric Arnold - Olympians
Portraits of Olympic and Paralympic athletes from the UAE by Gabriella Sancisi - Winning Fan Design Auction
In aid of the Tohoku Earthquake Relief Fund - Gifts of Recognition
Modern and Contemporary Art from the SOAS Collection - The Man Who Wouldn't Run on a Sunday
Eric Liddell in the SOAS Archives - Mumbai's Male Masseurs
Photographs by Charles Fox - Dyad
Sculptures by Sokari Douglas Camp - Disappearing Heritage of Sudan 1820-1956
A photographic and filmic research exhibition by Frederique Cifuentes - Kolam
Ephemeral patterns for eternal prosperity - The Fabric Of Fieldwork
by WESSIELING and Susan Ossman - Traditions Revised
Japanese Contemporary Fans from the Ishizumi Family Collection - One Thousand Pots, One Thousand Thoughts
A project that commemorates the victims of the Tohoku earthquake and Tsunami of 11th March 2011 - A ceramic installation by Yozo Hirayama - Tohoku
Images of Disaster
2011
- Weaving the Threads of Livelihood
The aesthetic and embodied knowledge of Berber weavers - Mountains & Water
An exhibition of landscape paintings by XU Longsen - The Golden Temple of Amritsar: Reflections of the Past
The first major exhibition on one of the world’s most beautiful and iconic buildings - Retracing Our Steps
A Photographic Journey through the 100 Years of the Republic of China - A Disappearing World
An exhibition of photography by Robert Wallis and artwork by members of the Tribal Women's Artist Collective from Jharkhand, North Central India. - My Beautiful Iranian Childhood
The first exhibition in London by the Iranian artist, Parisa Aminolahi. - Bridge of Knowledge
An exhibition of rare European books about the Arab and Islamic World drawn from the Arcadian Library - History Lessons 1
Madain saleh, Al Ula and Hejaz Railway, a photographic exhibition by Jackie Leger
2010
- Escaping War
An Exhibition of Photographs Taken by Refugee Children in Uganda and Jordan - My Father's House
The Architecture of Cultural Heritage - The Light - Paintings Of The 'Hibakusha'
An exhibition of paintings of the survivors of the Hiroshima bomb and their descendants - My Dear Brother: Armenians in Turkey 100 Years Ago
100 years ago, Postcards and objects of everyday life - Rastafari in Lusoland
King Haile Selassie's visit to Portugal in 1959 - Posing Questions: Being & Image in Asia & Europe
ASEMUS project with the British Museum - African Fever: Performing 'Africa' in Europe
Exhibition funded by The Fürer Haimendorf Fund for Anthropological Field Research
2009
- Halala Women of Fancy Stitch Halala
Contemporary Indigenous Tapestries by the Fancy Stitch Group - Design and Nature
Waterwheels of Syria and China - Kazakh Craftswomen of Mongolia's 'Rich Cradle'
An exhibition on craftswomen and their textiles - The World in Monochromes
Presented by the Oriental Ceramics Society - Geometry, Illumination & Beyond
An artist's dialogue with structure form in Iranian Manuscript illumination - Asian Dance Theatre: performance through the lens
An exhibition of images of Asian performers taken by UK photographers in the past 30 years - Vintage Singapore: Souvenirs from the recent past
An exhibition from the collection of the National Museum of Singapore
2008
- The Bakhtiari: More Than Just Nomads
Photographic Exhibitions by Caroline Mawer - Edge of Arabia - Contemporary Art from Saudi Arabia
A new wave of Saudi contemporary art comes to London - Painted Photographs
From the Alkazi Collection of Photography - Retracing Heinrich Barth
Based on Barth's "Travels and Discoveries in North Africa and Central Africa in the Years 1849-1855." - Our Positive Bodies
This exhibition consists of life-size body map self portraits painted by HIV-positive women in Thailand, India, and Kenya. - Cairo 1975
A photographic exhibition of old Cairo between the October War and Camp David - The Islamic Sultanate of Brunei: Past and Present Culture
An exhibition by the Brunei Museums. Artefacts from the Sungai Lima Mains archaeological site, dating from the 10th – 13th Centuries A.D. - An Image of Nagaland in 2000
Photographic exhibition by Thornhaugh Group
2007
- A Future For The Past
Petrie's Palestinian Collection. Presented with the Institute of Archaeology, UCL - 50,320 Names
by Khalil Rabah, presented by The Palestinian Museum of Natural History and Humankind - Positive Lives: HIV
Photographs by Ash Akhtar - Tapping Into The Known
The life and work of Christopher Okigbo & Obi Okigbo - Campaigning Against Slavery: From The 18th To The 21st Century
Presented by Anti-slavery International - Soho Road To The Punjab
50 Years Of Bhangra, Music, Culture & Style - Exposed And Hungry
Life In Eastern Congo - Objects of Instruction
Treasures of the School of Oriental and African Studies - Picturing China 1870-1950
Photographs from British Collections - Objects of Instruction: Treasures of SOAS
Publicising SOAS's remarkably rich but little known collections
2006
- Egyptian Landscapes
Fifty Years of Tapestry Weaving at the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Centre, Cairo - Rural Africa
Communities on the Move: a photographic exhibition by Josep A. Garí - The World In Colours
Presented by the Oriental Ceramics Society - Layered Lives: Iranian Armenian Identity Through Contemporary Arts
An exhibition of contemporary Armenian-Iranian painting, photography and graphic design - Kuwait: Harmony Within Time
A photographic exhibition by the Sights of Light Group - Heroes Of Our Time - Rwandan Courage and Survival
An exhibition presented by SURF (Survivors Fund) - Face_WSLOT (Woman See Lot of Things)
Female ex-child combatants in Sierra Leone - an interdisciplinary art installation by Meira Asher and Joost Nieuwenburg - Home Is Where The Heart Is
Cultural meetings: Portraits of life in Africa and life of Africans in Europe Photos by Jacob Crawfurd - Images From The Endgame
The photographs of Alexander Iyas the Tsar's Consul to Persia, from 1901 - 1914, Presented by the Iran Heritage Foundation. - The Immensity Of Spirit
A photographic exploration of the native people of South-Eastern Siberia by Aliaksandr Ilyukevich and Darya Harnitskaya
2005
- Transitions: Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Mozambique 1960-2004
A window into the artistic diversity of south-central Africa in the 20th Century - Part of Africa '05 - Concept & Practice: The Barefoot Photographers of Tilonia
Presented by The Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India - Paradoxes
An exhibition exploring contradiction - Hearing Voices: Sound Portraits from the Kalahari
A project by John Wynne - Endangered Voices
Exploring the themes of language endangerment - Madagascar
Photographs by Ray Massey - After Hiroshima: Nuclear Imaginaries
Contemporary work influenced by the Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima - Design Made In Africa
Contemporary African design exhibition with work by 29 designers from 14 African countries - Africa's Forgotten Crisis
Photographs by James Akena of the crisis in Northern Uganda, presented by the United Nations World Food Programme
2004
- The Spirit of Wood - Salutation to a Living Art
An Exhibition of Malay Woodcarving - Kanaval
Photographs from the pre-Lenten Mardi Gras in Jacmel, Haiti by Leah Gordon - Living Apart
An exhibition of photographs of South Africa by Ian Berry presented by Magnum Photos - The African Photographs
An exhibition of photographs by George Rodger presented by Magnum Photos - The Political Body
Posters from the People's Republic of China in the 1960s and 1970s from the University of Westminster Chinese Poster Collection - The Indigenous and the Foreign
Art & Architecture of 17th Century Northern Ethiopia - Cultural Connotations
Prints and paintings by Abdolhamid Keshmirshekan - Asia: Mind Body Spirit
A Major Exhibition of Asian Treasures from the Wellcome Library - Sufi Festival in Sudan
Photographs by Frédérique Cifuentes
2003
- Mapping the Treasures of Arabia
An exhibition of European maps of the Arabian peninsula over 500 years, from Marian Bukhari's map collection - Out of the Box - Tribal Communities of Modern Tanzania
An exhibition of photographs by Colin Hastings, Kijiji Vision Fair Trade Photography - Global Image
SOAS Students' photographs from around the world - Beyond The Myth
Moroccan contemporary art - Instant Art I
Contemporary Art from Hong Kong by Marzo To - Instant Art II
A new exhibition by Marzo To - Butabu. Adobe architecture in West Africa
Photographs taken by James Morris - Persian Steel - A Mirror of Life in Iran
A selection of steel artifacts showing Persian craftsmanship over 1,000 years, from the Tanavoli Collection - 12 Photographic Journeys - Iran Today
An exhibition of 12 journeys by 10 Iranian photographers - Concealed/Revealed - Photographic works by Kate Parsons
Photographs of sculptural works influenced by the artist's anthropological work in Kenya
2002
- A Garden Bequest
Plants from Japan Portrayed in Books, Paintings and Decorative Art of 300 Years - Can We Feed Ourselves?
Photographs by Hiroji Kubota and John Vink asking this question in Asia and Africa, Magnum Photo's - Kumbha Mela
A study of India's largest pilgrimage in photographs by Dixie - Shiro Satsuma-Yaki Plate
Ceremonial dish celebrating Japan 2001, by Mr Hirota - Hong Kong City Scapes - Ink Painting in Transition
From the Hong Kong Museum of Art - Scenes from Libya
Photographs by Rosalind Waddams - Bernard Leach - Concept & Form
An exhibition of ceramics and drawings by Bernard Leach
2001
- Court & Conquest
The costumes and design used for Handel's Tamerlano and their Ottoman origins - Princess Salme: Behind the Veil The Life and Writings of Sayyida Salme
An exhibition of the life and writings of Sayyida Salme, writer and teacher (1844 – 1924) - 100 Years of Tokyo
An Exhibition of photographs from the Japan Camera Industry Institute Salon - Songs of the Sun: Batik wall-hangings
Foyer exhibition by Mishtu Austin - India: Pioneering Photographers 1850-1900
The first major exhibition in London of early photographs of India, from The British Library and private collections - Melting the Stars
An Exhibition of photographs of Burma by Joey Bieber
2000
- Accident and Design: Gani Odutokun and his influence
A profile of the artist's work and that of nine of his students from Nigeria - Pakistan: Another Vision
Fifty years of painting and sculpture from Pakistan - In the Shade of the Tree
A Photographic Exhibition by Peter Sanders - Traces of Paradise
The Archaeology of Bahrain 2500 BC - 300 AD, from the National Museum of Bahrain - Strokes of Genius
An exhibition of the work of 20 Iraqi Artists
1999
- Routes
Sculptures, paintings and drawings by five artists from four continents - China Close-Up - Photographs of Daily Lives
Photographs of rural and urban life by Sandrine Rousseau - Dialogue of the Present
The work of 18 contemporary Arab women artists - Royal Persian Paintings: The Qajar Epoch 1785-1925
An exhibition of the visual splendour of the arts of Persia's Qajar dynasty - Kenya: Promised Land
A profile of the country in photographs by Geoff Sayer, on behalf of Oxfam
1998
- Rupa Malaysia
Contemporary Malaysian art from The National Gallery, Kuala Lumpur - Contemporary Israeli Art: Three Generations
Contemporary work from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art - Arms & The Woman
Photographs of the impact of war on women, by Jenny Mathews, on behalf of Oxfam - Islamic Art & Patronage
An exhibition of Islamic art and artefacts from the al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait
1997
- Image and Form
Prints, drawings and sculpture from southern Africa and Nigeria - Chinese Textiles
Part of the Addis Bequest from the Victoria and Albert Museum - Looking East
The European experience of the Middle East in books and watercolours, private collections with the Searight Collection from the Victoria Albert Museum
1996
- Architecture from the Islamic World
Photographs taken over a thirty year period by Mr Edgar Knobloch - Gold Jewelry from Tibet and Nepal
Modern and antique jewellery from a private collection - Empire of the Sultans
Ottoman art from the collection of Nasser D.Khalili
