Tabish Khan (art critic)

Tabish Khan is an art critic, writer, and speaker who writes primarily about art exhibitions in London. He is a trustee of City & Guilds London Art School, The Discerning Eye - which hosts an annual exhibition , and artist collective ArtCan. He is also a 'critical friend' of UP Projects - a public art organisation specialising in socially engaged public art commissioning.

Career
He has been asked to provide his critical opinion on Brooklyn Beckham’s photo book for The Sun, the artwork of Hunter Biden for Politico , and to provide commentary on the first official portrait of King Charles by Jonathan Yeo for Business Insider - with quotes from that article appearing on Yahoo! News.

Khan has appeared on television to discuss the Turner Prize on Al-Jazeera, on euronews to discuss a Vincent van Gogh exhibition at The Courtauld and the Fabergé exhibition at The Victoria and Albert Museum , and on TRT World to discuss the top news stories of the year.

He has interviewed Joe Grieve for BWG gallery, presented at a "Writing About Art" workshop for the Association of Art History , and hosted a panel discussion entitled what’s wrong with art for the Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize. He has also written features on many different artists, including an interview with David Wightman.

In a blog post for Artsted he stated “I believe passionately in making art accessible to everyone”. In an interview in 2021, Rachel Segal Hamilton, writing for University of the Arts London, stated: “Tabish Khan is on a mission to demystify the art world for his readers”. While in an interview on Ceri Hand’s blog from 2020 he is described as “unafraid of holding unfashionable or controversial opinions but is very open to having his perception shifted”.

Khan has also judged numerous art prizes including the Jackson’s Painting Prize in 2021, The Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture in 2021, 2022, and 2023 , and the Studio West ‘Now Introducing’ open call and art prize in 2021.