Resume
Education
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA, USA
MFA, Interdisciplinary Practice (low res), 2019
Thesis Title: Word, Image and Language; Come Read Us Another Story (Participatory Performance)
National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan
Department of Fine Art
BFA, Miniature Painting, 2001
Thesis Exhibition: Letters to All
Professional Experience
2020-2021
Adjunct Assistant Professor, College of Arts and Creative Enterprise,
Zayed University, Dubai Campus, UAE
2005-2017
National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan
Lecturer Fine Art, Department of Fine Art
Visiting Lecturer for undergraduate Miniature Painting course, Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore, Pakistan
External Juror for Miniature Painting Thesis, final year, 2004, National College of Art, Lahore, Pakistan
Workshops
Workshops conducted on Teaching Basic Islamic Geometry and Miniature Painting at Zayed University, Dubai and Abu Dhabi Campus
Miniature Painting workshop at XVA gallery, Dubai, 2017
Demonstration of techniques of Miniature Painting with Qamar Adamjee, Aldrich Museum CT, USA, 2006
Design Work
Designer for the first arts journal, Sohbat: Journal of Contemporary Art and Culture published by National College of Arts, Lahore and oneninetwo (all three issues, 2010-2012)
Thesis catalogue design and layout, Department of Fine Art
Residencies
2006
Britto Arts Trust, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2014
Participated at Core residency program at Campus Art Dubai (CAD 2.0) 2014
Recent Exhibitions:
2023
Vision/s, two person show at Loft gallery, Stamford, CT
Solo Exhibitions
2019
Word, Image and Language: Come Read Us Another Story (Participatory Performance)
Thesis show at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
The Studio that Creates itself after Allen Ruppersberg’s, The Novel that Writes itself
Interactive Installation at Canvas gallery, Karachi
2018
Look, Look Again
Participatory and Interactive Installation, at Koel gallery, Karachi
Look, Look Again
Participatory and Interactive Installation, at Taseer Art Gallery, Lahore
2016
Search the Collection
Solo show at Canvas gallery, Karachi
2011
Buy One, Get One
Solo show at Rohtas gallery, Islamabad
Buy One, Get One
Solo show at Rohtas 2 gallery, Lahore
Inquiry of Art
Solo show at Poppy Seed gallery, Karachi
2010
Salon
Solo show at Rohtas 2 gallery, Lahore
2008
Original Image May Vary
Solo show at Chawkandi gallery, Karachi
Group Exhibitions
2020
Walking Blues
Group show at Sanat Initiative, Karachi
2017
Back to the Future: History and Contemporary Art in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia
Group show curated by Atteqa Ali, at Twelve Gates gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Here, There and Everywhere
Participatory Installation through food, group show at Sikka Art Fair, Dubai
2016
The 70’s: Pakistan’s Radioactive Decade
Group show curated by Nilofur Farrukh and Amin Gulgee
2013
Extra Ordinary, 37 Do It Yourself Art Ideas for Free
Group show curated by Rashid Rana, at Canvas gallery, Karachi
Here and Now
Group show curated by Quddus Mirza at Lahore Art gallery, Lahore
Icons/Pakistan Zinda Baad
Two-persons show at Canvas gallery, Karachi
2012
In Praise of Red
Group show at Royaat gallery, Lahore
Letters to Taseer, 2
Group show at Drawing Room gallery, Lahore
2010
Off the Wall: De-framing Contemporary Miniature Painting
Group show curated by Atteqa Ali, at Twelve Gates gallery, PA, USA
Who is Afraid of Theory?
Group show at Poppy Seed gallery, Karachi
Havelian Express
Group show curated by Whitney Ferrare at CAIS gallery, Hong Kong
2009
Good Looking: Vision and Society in Contemporary Art
Group show curated by Atteqa Ali at Grey Noise gallery, Lahore
I Love Miniature
Two-persons show at Aicon gallery New York
, NY (With Debanjan Roy)
Emperor’s New Clothes: Dress, Politics, and Identity in Contemporary Pakistani Art
Group show at Talwar gallery, New York, NY
Bazgasht: Traditional Methods and Modern Practices; Revival of Miniature Paintings from the Subcontinent
Group show at Art Gallery Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Starring the Artist: Self Portraits from Pakistan
Group show at Indus Valley gallery, Karachi
Pathways and Practices
Group show at Aicon gallery, NY
2007
Lahore Lovelies
Two-persons show at Aicon gallery, London
(With Talha Rathor)
2006
Beyond The Page: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Group show at Asia House and Manchester Art Gallery, UK
Partitions: Contemporary Art from India and Pakistan
Group show at HNTB Architecture, Washington D.C
Lila/Play: Contemporary Miniatures & New Art from South Asia
Group show at SPAN galleries, Melbourne Australia
Places Real and Imagined: The Landscape in Contemporary Art
Group show at Alhamra Art gallery, Lahore
Outside the Cube
Site specific installation at National Art Gallery, Islamabad, curated by Atteqa Ali
Response to Haji Sharif’s Work
Group show curated by Muhammad Imran Qureshi at National Art Gallery, Islamabad
2005
The Artist’s Face: Self-Portraits of our Times
Group show at Rohtas 2 gallery, Lahore
Contemporary Miniatures
Group show at Croweater’s gallery, Lahore
Karkhana: A Contemporary Collaboration
Curated by Hammad Nasar at, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, CT, USA and Asian Art Museum
Voices
World Bank Office, Islamabad
2004
Playing with a Loaded Gun
Group show at Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Transcendent Contemplations
Two-persons show at Hosains gallery, London (With Saira Wasim)
Contemporary Miniatures from Pakistan
Group show at Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
2003
Karkhana: A Contemporary Collaboration
Curated by Hammad Nasar at Touchstones Art gallery, Rochdale, UK
Contemporary Miniatures from Pakistan
Group show at K3 – Project Space, Zurich
Playing with a Loaded Gun
Group show curated by Atteqa Ali at Apexart gallery, New York (catalogue)
Contemporary Pakistani Miniatures
Group show at Masion d’Art Contemporain Chaillioux, Fresnes, France (Catalogue)
New Voices
Group show at Canvas gallery, Karachi
Around Miniature
Group show curated by Quddus Mirza at Canvas gallery, Karachi
2002
Translations
Two-persons show at Rohtas-2 gallery, Lahore
Paintings from Pakistan
Niavaran Gallery, Tehran
Stepping Out
Rohtas 2 Gallery, Lahore
Group show of Miniatures
Ejaz Gallery, Lahore
Work in Collections
Guggenheim Museum, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Contemporary Landscape collection, British Museum, London, UK
US Consulate General, Karachi, Pakistan
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
Aan Collection, private collection of Asian Art
Selected Reviews
Interstices and Art, Jovita Alvares, Dawn Newspaper, 2019
A Push to the Past, Quddus Mirza, The News on Sunday (TNS), 2018
Look, Look Again by Hasnat Mehmood, Jovita Alvares, Youlin Magazine, 2018
Borrowed Identity, Amina Ejaz, ArtNow Pakistan, 2016
Present Tense, Dua Abbas Rizvi, The Friday Times, 2013
Like A Magician’s Act, Interview with Art Now Pakistan, Jan. 2013
Urbane Delights, Quddus Mirza, TNS (The News on Sunday), 2013
Mixed Plate, Quddus Mirza, TNS, 2010
The Karkhana Phenomenon, Atteqa Ali, The Nation, 2005
Exploring Contemporary Miniature Techniques, Atteqa Ali, The Nation, 2005
Contemporary Miniatures, Quddus Mirza TNS, 2005
Collective Vision, Murtaza Wali, Herald, October 2005
Blair confronts art close to home, Laura Smith-Spark, BBC News Online, 2004
Karkhana, Hammad Nasar, BBC Urdu, 2004
Karkhana, Hammad Nasar, The Herald, 2004
White is Right, Quddus Mirza, TNS, 2002
Translations, Saira Dar, Dawn, 2002