Arjan Shehaj

Patos (Albania), 1989
Lives and works in Milan

Arjan Shehaj was born in 1989 in the municipality of Patos, whose name derives from that of the ancient village near which it arose, located in southwestern Albania. Its nominal origin is attributed by many scholars to the ancient Greek term pathos. However, the current name is the result of a linguistic alteration due to the variation of its pronunciation: in fact, already during the seventeenth century it became Patios.
Shehaj currently lives and works in Milan. In 2012 he obtained a bachelor’s degree in painting cum Laude at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and in 2015 he received a master’s degree at the same academy, also with honors. In 2022 he was selected as one of the finalists of the Art Prize Cairo.

Solo exhibitions:

2022
PATOS, Raffaella De Chirico Arte Contemporanea, Torino
FORME PENSIERO, Galleria Bianchi Zardin, Milan
ART VERONA, Fair, Raffaella De Chirico Arte Contemporanea, Verona (October, 2022)
BIENVENUE FAIR, Hotel La Lousiane, Paris (October 2022)

2019
Bi solo-show, Galleria Bianchi Zardin, Milan

2017
UNTITLED, Malaka Gallery, Milan

2015
POSSIBLE LOVES, TRAVELLING SELF POTRAIT, Piero Manzoni ex atelier, Milan
POETICAL GEOMETRIES, Galleria Marianne Wild Arte Contemporanea UnicA, Chieti, Pescara

2012
TRAVEL TOWARDS PAINTING, Jean Blancheart Gallery, Milan

Group exhibitions:

2022
BITE & GO , Nicoletta Rusconi Art Projects), St-Moritz, CH
BITE & GO, Nicoletta Rusconi Art Project, Milano
Affordable art fair Milan, Galleria BIANCHIZARDIN
ArT HOME” collettiva virtual presso CO.VI.3D GALLERY,
TRANSITS, Palazzo Lascaris, Torino

2021
CONCORDIA II, bi-solo show Arjan Shehaj – Regina Jose Galindo,
Galleria promenade Vlor, AL
Firetti Contemporary, Dubai,
Mostra Collettiva Open studio Viafarini, Milan
TRANSITS, Palazzo Lascaris, Torino
IDROMENO, PRIZE 2021, galleria Shkoder Albania.
ARTbite, project, - Bite & Go, Milano,
OBSERVATORY, BRERA & Superstudio, Milano

2019
WOPART, Art on paper fair, Lugano, CH

Awards:

2022
ARTE CAIRO Prize, finalist, Royal Palace, October 2022