Born in Lahore, Anila Quayyum Agha has an MFA in Fibre Arts from the University of North Texas. She received a BFA from the National College of Arts, Lahore, in 1989. Agha works in a cross disciplinary fashion with mixed media; creating artwork that explores global politics, cultural multiplicity, mass media, and social and gender roles in our current cultural and global scenario. As a result her artwork is conceptually challenging, producing...
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Born in Lahore, Anila Quayyum Agha has an MFA in Fibre Arts from the University of North Texas. She received a BFA from the National College of Arts, Lahore, in 1989. Agha works in a cross disciplinary fashion with mixed media; creating artwork that explores global politics, cultural multiplicity, mass media, and social and gender roles in our current cultural and global scenario. As a result her artwork is conceptually challenging, producing complicated weaves of thought, artistic action and social experience.
In the artist’s words, “Through the use of a variety of media, from large sculptural installations to embroidered drawings I explore the deeply entwined political relationships between gender, culture, religion, labor and social codes. In my work I have used combinations of textile processes such as embroidery, wax, dyes, and silk-screen printing along with sculptural methodologies to reveal and question the gendering of textile work as inherently domesticated and excluded from being considered an art form.”
Agha’s work has been exhibited in over seventeen solo shows and fifty group shows and has won numerous awards and grants. Agha won the two top prizes at ArtPrize 2014, in the international art competition held in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Her entry, titled “Intersections”, earned the ArtPrize 2014 Public Vote Grand Prize and split the Juried Grand Prize in a tie.
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Lahore
Education
1989 Bachelor of Fine Arts, National College of Art, Lahore, Pakistan
2004 Master of Fine Arts, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
ACADEMIC
2016 Associate Professor - Drawing, Herron School of Art and Design, IUPUI, IN
2008-13 Assistant Professor - Drawing, Herron School of Art and Design, IUPUI, IN GALLERY REPRESENTATION
2014 Aicon Art Gallery, New York City, USA
2010 Pan Am Art Gallery, Dallas, TX
2009 Xerxes Art Gallery, London, UK
2006-09 Joanwich Art Gallery, Houston TX
Exhibitions
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Forthcoming Show, Curator: Jennifer...
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Forthcoming Show, Curator: Jennifer Dasal, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Forthcoming Show, Curator: Dr. Lisa J. Nicoletti, Meadows Museum, Shrevport, LA
2017 Forthcoming Show, Jaime DeSimone, MOCA JACKSONVILLE, Jacksonville, FL
Forthcoming Show, Curator: Elizabeth Rooklidge, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
Sublime Light, Kiran Nader Art Museum, New Delhi, India
2016 Walking With My Mothers Shadow, Aicon Art Gallery, New York City, NY
All The Flowers Are For Me, Curator: Hrag Vartanian, Brooklyn Music Academy, Brooklyn, NY
Intersections, Curator: Sona Datta, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Intersections, Curator: Mark Ruschman, Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, IN.
2015 Crossing Boundaries, Cheongju Craft Biennale, Cheongju, Korea
2015 Intersections: Islamic Arts Festival 17th Edition, Sharjah Contemporary Art Museum, Sharjah, UAE
2015 Intersections, Curator: Kim Davenport, Rice University Gallery, Houston, TX
2015 Intersections, Justine Ludwig/ Ariel Saldivar, Dallas Contemporary Art Museum, Dallas, TX
2015 Intersections, HUB Artprize, Grand Rapids, MI
2015 Murmuration - Lure of The Eye, Sharjah Art Expo, Sharjah, U.A.E.
2014 Intersections/ ArtPrize, GRAM, Grand Rapids, MI
2014 Anila Quayyum Agha - My Forked Tongue, Curator: Elizabeth Petrulis, Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Terra Haute, IN
2014 Sacred Silence, Harrison Art Center, Indianapolis, IN
2014 Lure of the Eye, Solo Art Exhibition and Art Bazaar, Directorate of Art, Government of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2014 Quicksand: Landscape of the Feminine, Curator: Shannon Linker, 924 Gallery, Indianapolis Arts Council, Indianapolis, IN
2013 Wound/Wound, Curator: Alison Erazmus, John Day Gallery, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
2013 Intersections, Basile Gallery, Herron School of Art & Design, Indianapolis, IN
2012 Spirit Animals, Art Gallery at Park Tudar School, Indianapolis, IN
2012 Rights of Passage, Madigan Gallery, Penn College, Williamsport, PA
2011 A Flood of Tears, Stewart Center Gallery, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN
2011 And Red Is The Earth…, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Harmony, IN
2010 Anila Quayyum Agha - My Forked Tongue III, Curator: Jillian Sokso, Ortlip Art Gallery, Houghton, NY
2010 Traveling Text, Curator: Salima Hashmi, Rohtas II Art Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan
2010 Traveling Text II, Curator: Naeem Pasha, Rohtas 1 Art Gallery, Islamabad, Pakistan
2009 My Forked Tongue, Basile Gallery, Herron School of Art & Design, Indianapolis, IN
2009 Anila Quayyum Agha - New Work, Lipscomb Gallery, South Carolina Governor’s School, Greenville, SC
2008 When Words Aren’t Enough, Gallery Director: Paula Webb, Joan Wich Art Gallery, Houston, TX
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 Delicate Bond of Steel, Curators: Projjal Dutta + Andrew Shea, Chatterji and Lal, Mumbai, India
2016 The Arch of My Eye’s Orbit, Curator: Hrag Vartanian, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Take Ten: The Gallery celebrates a decade of contemporary art, Gallery at Penn College, Williamsport, PA
2016 Un-Named Need: Pattern and Beauty in Contemporary Art, Wriston Art Galleries, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI
2015 Fear Nothing, She Says, Curator: Rosa Martinez, National Museum of Sculpture, Valladolid, Spain
2014 Small Works, Curator: Isabel Mattia, Dedee Shattuck Art Gallery, Westport, MA
2014 Contemporary Islamic Art, Curator: Iftikhar Dadi, LuminArte Art Gallery, Dallas, TX
2013 Rights of Passage, Curator: Julia Moore, Indianapolis International Airport, Indianapolis, IN
2013 Object Object: Good, Good Things, Helmuth Projects, San Diego, CA
2013 Mother Load, Curator: Leslie Robertson, Group Installation Project, Prescott College Art Gallery, Prescott, AZ
2013 Art Center’s 10 Invitational, Curator: Elaine Tailor, Ft Worth Community Art Center Gallery, Ft Worth, TX
2013 Text Embodied, Curator: Aisha Khan, Twelve Gates Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2013 Love Books, Group Installation, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (IMOCA), Indianapolis, IN
2012 Plurality, Kingwood Art Gallery, Kingwood, TX
2012 TURF - IDADA Art Pavilion, Super Bowl, Old City Hall, Indianapolis, IN
2011 The Ocean In Us, Curator: Barbara Benish & Neal Nolan, 5 Gyres Institute, Vancouver, Canada
2011 Crafting Live(s): Ten Years of Artists in Residents, Curator: Keelin Burrows, Center For Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX
2011 Common Threads: Contemporary Art from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iran and Pakistan, Al Serkal Cultural Foundation - Heritage House, Bastakiya, Dubai, U.A.E.
2010 What Will Be, Invitational Group Show, Curators: Barbara Benish & Eileen Haring Woods, Safe Planet/ United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change COP 16, Cancun, Mexico
2010 Tectonics: Print Exchange, MAPC, Portfolio Organized by Meredith Setser & Danielle Rante, Minneapolis, MN
2010 DELINEATE: An Invitational Exhibition of Drawings, Curator: Mana Hewitt, McMaster Gallery, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
2010 Substantialis Corporis Mixti (Substantial Form Of The Blended Body), THE SYNERGIES EXHIBITION OF THE BASEL, ROTTERDAM AND STOCKHOLM CONVENTIONS, Curator: Mark Cervenka, The Bohemian National Hall, New York City, NY. (The exhibition is sponsored by The Czech Republic and organized by Safe
Planet: the United Nations Campaign for Responsibility on Hazardous Chemicals and Wastes on the occasion of the 18th Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development)
2010 Janus, Two-Person Show, Curator: Sameera Raja, Canvas Art Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
2010 Feminist Art of Indiana, Curator: Esther Adler, Group Show, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Harmony, IN
2009 A Mid Summer’s Night, Curator: Cris Worley, Pan American Art Projects, Dallas, TX
2009 Translucent/ Transparent, Curator: Wade Wilson, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX
2009 Texas Biennial, Curator: Michael Duncan, Myriad Galleries in Austin, Austin, TX
2009 Mind The Gap - Artists As Educators, Harrison Center, Indianapolis, IN
2008 Tête-à-tête, Two Person Show, Art League Art Center, Houston, TX
2008 Cohesive Discord, Houston Arts Alliances Space 125 Gallery, Houston, TX
2008 Curve, O’Kane Gallery, Curator: Mark Cervenka, Houston, TX
2008 Sculpture Vision - Time Marker/ Keeper, Curator: Mari Omori, Lone Star College, Houston, TX
Honours and Awards
2016 Awarded: Glen W. Irwin, Jr., M.D. Research Scholar Award – 2016,...
2016 Awarded: Glen W. Irwin, Jr., M.D. Research Scholar Award – 2016, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN
2015 Awarded: Joan C. Edwards Distinguished Professor’s Award, Marshall University, Huntington, WV
2014 Juried Grand Prize - Intersections, $100,000, ArtPrize, Grand Rapids, MI
($200,000 Split between two contestants - ArtPrize)
2014 Popular Grand Prize - Intersections, $200,000, ArtPrize, Grand Rapids, MI
2014 Popular Installation Category - Intersections, ArtPrize, Grand Rapids, MI
2014-15 IUPUI Arts and Humanities Internal Grant (IAHI), $15,000, Creation of New Work, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
2014 Empower Grant, $5,000, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
2012-13 New Frontiers Research Grant, $35,000, Creation of New Work, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
2012 Creative Renewal Fellowship, $10,000, Indianapolis Arts Council, Indianapolis, IN
2012 New Frontiers Travel Grant - Artist Residency - Mazatlán, Mexico, $2,500, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN
2012 IU Overseas Study Program Development Grant - Spain, $3,000, Herron School of Art & Design, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN
2011 New Frontiers Travel Grant - Spain, $2,500, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
2011 Turf: Installation, $2,000, Indianapolis Super Bowl, Old City Hall, Indianapolis, IN
2011 RPC Award for SECAC Conference in Savanna, GA, Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, IN
2010 Efroymson Art Fellowship, $20,000, CICF - Efroymson Foundation Cash Artist Award, Indianapolis, IN
2010 IUPUI Arts and Humanities Internal Grant (IAHI), $12,500, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, IN
2010 New Frontiers Travel Grant - Pakistan, $2,500, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
2010 Resource Planning Committee - Faculty Grant, Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, IN
2010 Houghton College Honorarium, Houghton, NY
2009 New Frontiers Travel Grant - Pakistan, $2,500, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
2009 CICF - Efroymson Foundation Travel Grant, $2,500, Indianapolis, IN
2009 Resource Planning Committee - Faculty Grant, Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, IN
ART Fairs International and National
2016 Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, TX
2016 Dubai Art Fair, Dubai, UAE
2015 Abu Dhabi Art Fair, Abu Dhabi, UAE
2015 Art International, Istanbul, Turkey
2015 Dubai Art Fair, Dubai, UAE
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2012 Artist in Residence, Glen Rogers Studio, Mazatlán, Mexico
2007 Creative Capital Professional Development Workshop, Diverse Works, Houston, TX
2006 Creative Capital Professional Development Workshop, Diverse Works, Houston, TX
2005 Artist in Residence - Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX
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