Raheel Khan
Raheel Khan (b. 1992, Nottingham) is a London-based artist & composer working across installation, performance, drawing & text.
Originally a student of Economics, he’s moved toward a practice that considers human routine, belief systems and design infrastructures as containers of communal experience. Khan approaches physical sites as collaborators, allowing architectural, material and social conditions to actively inform and decide the work.
Guided by a compositional and research-led framework, Khan abstracts the terms machine, devotion and acoustic across material and sonic registers. Sculptural installations and assemblages are often produced through reclaimed materials, sourced through localised contexts and circulation, and are staged to question our relationship to product, belonging and object histories. Sound is treated as a resonant and bodily presence, working across electroacoustic, amplified and vibrational sensibilities.
He is the current 2026 Magnetic Laureate at Bétonsalon, Paris and Fluxus Art Projects, and the East Gallery Fellow at Norwich University of the Arts. Khan was nominated for Frieze Artist Award (2025) and was shortlisted for Arts Foundation Futures Award (2025), whilst winning the Goldsmiths Alumni Award (2025) and the Almacantar Studio Degree Show Award (2024).
Recent works have been presented at Camden Art Centre, London, UK (2025); Goldsmiths CCA, London, (2025); Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK (2025); Bold Tendencies, London, UK (2025); Auto Italia, London, UK (2025) South London Gallery, London, UK (2024); Lisson Gallery and Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London, UK (2024); Palmer Gallery, London, UK (2024); University of Bergen, Norway, NO (2024); Longsight Community Art Space, Manchester, UK (2024); Deptford X, London, UK (2023); Ovada Gallery, Oxford, UK (2023); Audiograft Festival, Oxford, UK (2023) Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK (2022); Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh, UK (2022); Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2022) and FACT, Liverpool, UK (2021).