In 2019, her work DC: SEMIRAMIS commissioned by Glasgow International (May–April 2018)[4] and The Tetley, Leeds (July–October 2018),[5][6] and her participation in Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance at Nottingham Contemporary[7] and the De Le Warr Pavilion,[8] Bexhill-on-Sea, was nominated for the Turner Prize.
[18] In 2019-2020 Rafael Barber Cortell at CentroCentro, Madrid, Spain, commissioned Shani and Florence Peake to produce work as a pair as part of the curatorial project Absolute Beginners.
[19] Shani was commissioned along with her fellow Turner Prize winners Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, and Oscar Murillo to create a site specific piece at the Anteros statue, Picadilly Circus, London UK.
Shani writes that the artists were responding to the history of the statue: "built in the late nineteenth century, [it] commemorates the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, who was instrumental in the colonisation of Palestine".
[21] Tai Shani and her fellow shortlisted artists Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, and Oscar Murillo were jointly awarded the Turner Prize in 2019 after they wrote to the judges as a collective.