Born
1971
Karachi, Pakistan
Exhibitions
Select Solo Exhibitions
2012 'Then It Was Moulded Anew',...
Select Solo Exhibitions
2012 'Then It Was Moulded Anew', Experimenter, Kolkata
2011 Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, Newcastle
2010 ‘Section Yellow’, Project 88, Mumbai
2010 ‘Karachi’, V.M Art Gallery, Karachi
2010 ‘Karachi’, Green Cardamom, London
2008 ‘Standing Still Standing Still Standing: Video and Prints by Bani Abidi’, Green Cardamom, London
2008 ‘Recent Works’, Gallery SKE, Bangalore
2007 ‘The Boy Who Got Tired of Posing’, Gallery TPW, Toronto; V. M Art Gallery, Karachi
2006 ‘Shan Pipe Band Learns the Star Spangled Banner’, Oberwelt, Stuttgart; Haines Gallery, San Francisco
Select Group Exhibitions
2011 ‘Liberalis: Pursuit of Liberty’, KUNST + PROJECTE, Sindelfigen, Germany
2011 ‘Home Spun’, Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi
2011 ‘Blockbuster: Cinema for Exhibitions’, MARCO, Monterrey
2011 ‘The Luxury of Dirt’, Galerie Bob von Orsouw, Zurich
2010 ‘Barrier (free): An Exploration of Resistance and Obstacles, Ratskeller, Berlin
2010 ‘Heat Wave’, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York
2009 ‘Freedom is Notional’, Experimenter, Kolkatta
2009 ‘The View From Elsewhere’, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation and Queensland Art Gallery, Sydney
2009 ‘Lines of Control’, Green Cardamom at VM Gallery, Karachi
2008 Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Toronto
2008 ‘Six Degrees of Separation: Chaos, Congruence & Collaboration’, Anant Art Gallery and Khoj International Artists Association, New Delhi
2008 ‘Usable Pasts, Concerted Forgettings’, SMART Project Space,Amsterdam
2008 ‘POL1T1C. VIVO’, Media Arts Center, Vancouver
2008 ‘Crossroads’, Elementa Art Gallery, Dubai
2008 ‘Destination Asia: Non Strict Correspondence’, Elementa Art Gallery, Dubai
2007 ‘LUSH’, Gallery SKE & Jack Tilton Gallery, New York and Miami
2007 ‘Contemporary Art from Pakistan’, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
2007 ‘GeoPoetics’, Centro José Guerrero, Granada, Spain
2007 ‘The Communism of Forms’, Gallery Vermelho, Sao Paulo
2005 ‘Bollywood Chaat’, SAVAC, Toronto
2005 ‘Puppet in a Box’, Kunstiftung, Baden-Wurttemberg and Stuttgart
2004 ‘Old Masters, Young Voices’, SAARC Artists Group Show, Alhamra Art Gallery, Lahore
2004 ‘A Place Called Home’, South African National Gallery, Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg
2004 ‘Along the X-Axis: Digital Art from India and Pakistan’, Apeejay Media Gallery, New Delhi
2003 ‘Darmiyaan’, Neher Ghar Gallery, Lahore
2003 ‘Peace with India’, Nehar Ghar Gallery, Lahore
2003 ‘Around the Miniature Too’, Nairang Gallery, Lahore
Joint Exhibitions
2008 With Ayaz Jokhio at NCA Art Gallery, Lahore
Participations
2012-13 Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2012, Kochi
2012 ‘Making Normative Orders: Demonstrations of Power, Doubt and Protest’, Frankfurter Kunstverein
2011 Incheon Women Artists Biennial 2011, South Korea
2011 Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Art, Taichung
2011 ‘The Global Contemporary. Art Worlds after 1989, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
2011 4th Fotofestival - Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Heidelberg
2011 Parc de la Villette, Paris
2010 Selection from AiM International Biennale, Riso Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Palermo
2010 ‘Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh’, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London and Fotomuseum, Winterthur
2009 AiM International Biennale, Marrakech, Morroco
2009 ‘The Spectacle of the Everyday’, Xth Lyon Biennale, France
2009 ‘Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan’, Asia Society, New York
2008 7th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea
2008 5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Media City, Seoul
2007 Tri Dimensional Scene, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Art Beijing International Art Fair, Beijing
2007 ‘Thermocline of Art: New Asian Waves’, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2007 ‘Destination Asia: Non Strict Correspondence’, Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Kazakhstan
2006 Singapore Biennale 2006, Singapore
2006 ‘The Artists Cinema’, Frieze Art Fair, London
2006 ‘Sub-Contingent: The South Asian Sub Continent in Contemporary Art’, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
2006 Asian Contemporary Art Week, Asia Society, New York
2006 ‘2006 Contemporary Commonwealth’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2005 3rd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka, Japan
2005 ‘Something Purple: Digital Art from Pakistan’, Artists Commune, Hong Kong
2005 ‘Cinemascope’, Scope Art Fair, St Martins Lane Hotel, London
2005 ‘Beyond Borders: Art from Pakistan’, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
2004 ‘LA Freewaves’, 9th Festival of Film, Video and New Media, Los Angeles
2004 ‘Aar Paar 3’, Mumbai and Karachi
2004 Mateela Film Festival, Lahore
2003 3rd I, South Asian Film Festival, Roxie Theatre, San Fransisco
2003 ‘BOLLY>LOLLY>HOLLY>TOLLY’, SAVAC, York Quay Center, Toronto
Honours and Awards
2011 Resident Artist in the DAAD Berlin Artists Program
2005 Residency at Fukuoka Artist Exchange Program, Fukuoka, Japan
2003 Residency at Darmiyaan, Neher Ghar Gallery, Lahore
2001 Residency at Khoj International Artists Residency, New Delhi
2000 Residency at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, USA
2011 Resident Artist in the DAAD Berlin Artists Program
2005 Residency at Fukuoka Artist Exchange Program, Fukuoka, Japan
2003 Residency at Darmiyaan, Neher Ghar Gallery, Lahore
2001 Residency at Khoj International Artists Residency, New Delhi
2000 Residency at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, USA
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