SUJAY SHAH

For his first solo museum exhibition, artist Sujay Shah (SCAD B.F.A., painting, 2013) presents bold, colorful paintings that depict wild animals in lush domestic interiors. In Shah’s works, fauna native to his homeland — lions, zebras, gazelles, leopards, and wildebeest — express their feral nature in spaces adorned with big-game taxidermy hunting trophies and Victorian-style furnishings commonly found in luxury tourist safari lodges in Africa. By juxtaposing the untamable animal with Western colonial ornamentation, Shah upends preconceived notions of order and civility.

Photos Courtesy of SCAD