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- 1968
- Born in Lahore, Pakistan
Education
- 1994
- Master of Fine Arts, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, USA
- 1992
- Bachelor of Fine Arts, National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan
Selected Solo Shows
- 2006
- Solo Show , Nature Morte ,New Delhi ,India
- 2005
- Identical Views ,Philips Contemporary ,Mumbai , India
- 2004
- Identical Views , V.M. Gallery , Karachi , Pakistan and Nature Morte ,New Delhi ,India
- 2000
- Non-Sense , Rohtas Gallery , Islamabad , Pakistan
and Non-Sense: One Person Show ,Zahoor ul Akhlaq Gallery, NCA ,Lahore , Pakistan
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2006
- 5th Asia Pacific Triennale , Queensland Gallery of Art , Australia
EX-OTICA , Gallery Vitamin , Turin , Italy
Artissima Art Fair , Turin , Italy
Grid <>Matrix ,Kemper Art Museum , St Louis USA
Lille 3000: Desi Pop , Lille ,France
1st Singapore Biennale , Singapore
Beyond the Page: Contemporary Art from Pakistan, Asia House , London ,UK
Beyond the Page: Contemporary Art from Pakistan, Manchester Art Gallery ,Manchester , UK
Art Basel , represented by Nature Morte , Basel , Switzerland
Art Taipei , represented by Nature Morte ,Taiwan
Asian Contemporary Art Week ,organized by ASIA Society ,Gallery Korea NY, USA
Flights of Fancy , Royaat Gallery , Lahore ,Pakistan
Mirror Worlds: (traveling exhibition) ,Institute of the Modern Art , Brisbane , Australia
Parallel Realities: 3rd Fukuoka Triennale ,(travelling to) Blackburn Museum of Art , Blackburn , UK
- 2005
- Bitmap: International Digital Photo Project ,Loop ,Korea
New Media Art from Pakistan , Artist Village , Kowloon , Hong Kong
Beyond Borders: Art from Pakistan ,National Gallery of Modern Art , Mumbai ,India
Parallel Realities: 3rd Fukuoka Triennale ,Fukuoka Museum of Art , Fukuoka ,Japan
Three Person Show ,Bose Pacia ,New York ,USA
Mirror Worlds: Contemporary Video from Asia ,Australian Center for Photography, Sydney , Australia
- 2004
- South Asian Master: Old Masters and Young Voices , Alahamra Art Gallery, Lahore , Pakistan
Art Summit IV Exhibition , National Gallery of Art ,Jakarta ,Indonesia
KOVIDEO: 1st Durban Video Festival ,Kazna Gallery , South Africa
Playing with a Loaded Gun , Museum Fridericianum , Kassel , Germany
Along the X axis: video art from India and Pakistan , Apeejay Gallery , New Delhi , India
10th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh , Shilpakala Academy , Dhaka ,Bangladesh
- 2003-04
- 9th Cairo International Biennale , Cairo , Egypt
2003-Pier II Gallery in Taiwan 2002-Jamaica Center for the Arts, NY
Playing with a Loaded Gun , Apexart , New York
Miniatures Pakistanises , Maison d'Art Contemporarian Chaillioux , Paris , France
- 2002-04
- Global Priority, traveling exhibition , 2004- San Francisco Arts Commission gallery, San Francisco
Around Miniature , Royaat , Lahore and at Canvas Gallery , Karachi
Painting over the lines: Five Contemporary Artists from Pakistan , York Quay Gallery , Toronto , Canada and at Indo Center for Art and Culture , New York , USA
- 2001
- Crossing the Line (Site Specific project at Jackson heights NY) ,A Project of Queens Museum of Art , New York , USA
- 2000
- Context , Bare-Foot Gallery , Colombo , Sri Lanka
Another Vision: 50 years of Pakistani Art (Traveling Exhibition)
Brunei Gallery , SOAS London , Oldham Art Gallery , Haddonfield Art Gallery , Victoria Art Gallery, Bath , UK
Awards/Grants/Residencies
- 2006
- HAT exchange program residency: Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester , UK
- 2003
- International Artist of the Year Award 2002-2003 , SAVAC: South Asian Visual Arts Collective , Toronto , Canada
Hathor Prize , 9th Cairo International Biennale , Cairo , Egypt
Darmiyaan workshop , Neher Ghar Gallery , Lahore Pakistan
Artist in Residence , Gasworks , London , UK
- 2001
- Creation &Production Grant , Ontario Council of the Arts , Canada
- 2000
- Art-Link International Artist's Workshop , Sri Lanka
Creation &Production Grant Ontario Council of the Arts, Toronto Council of the Arts , Canada
Creation &Production Grant Canada Council for the Arts , Canada
- 1992
- Distinction Award; Degree Show , National Collage of Art ,Lahore ,Pakistan
Selected Public Commissions/Projects
- 2007-05
- Rusholm Project , artists: Rashid Rana Subodh Gupta ,organized by SHISHA Manchester ,UK
- 2002-04
- Aar Paar Project , Mumbai , Karachi
Teaching
- 2002-2005
- Associate Professor , School of Visual Arts , Beaconhouse National University Lahore , Pakistan
- 1995-2002
- Dept of Fine Art & MA Visual Arts , National College of Arts , Lahore , Pakistan
- 1995-2004
- Pakistan School of Fashion Design, Lahore Pakistan
Lives and work in Lahore and Toronto