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Imran Qureshi
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Leading Pakistani contemporary artist, Imran Qureshi (b. Hyderabad, Pakistan, 1972) is best known for his minutely detailed paintings that borrow from the style of traditional miniatures. Trained in the celebrated ancient Mughal miniature art form, Qureshi merges the tradition with contemporary social, political and cultural subject matter to create new expressionist works. His paintings are a visual commentary on the contemporary...
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Leading Pakistani contemporary artist, Imran Qureshi (b. Hyderabad, Pakistan, 1972) is best known for his minutely detailed paintings that borrow from the style of traditional miniatures. Trained in the celebrated ancient Mughal miniature art form, Qureshi merges the tradition with contemporary social, political and cultural subject matter to create new expressionist works. His paintings are a visual commentary on the contemporary realities of his homeland - modern day Pakistan.
Over his career, his work has traversed from the figurative tradition of the miniature form to a more abstract realm. In his own words, Qureshi summarizes his oeuvre as an exploration of the question, ‘What is a contemporary miniature painting?’ In this he has experimented with the possibilities of working with the traditional miniature painting using the vocabulary of a contemporary art form followed by working with single-figure compositions in miniature painting. Arriving at a conclusion that miniature painting is much more than a formal arrangement of different objects with a narrative, his recent works are more abstract, which he considers an important aspect of the traditional practice of miniature painting. More recently, he has expanded the scale of his work to create large site specific installations.
Imran Qureshi is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Fine Art, National College of Arts, Lahore, where he has been teaching miniature painting since his own graduation. He has exhibited widely in both solo and group exhibitions in Japan, India, the UK, the USA, Australia and Pakistan. Qureshi has been involved in international contemporary art surveys on South Asia, notably the exhibition East–West Divan: Contemporary Art from Afghanistan, Iran & Pakistan at the Venice Biennale in 2009. He has created large scale installations in architectural spaces at the Singapore Biennial, the Asia Society Museum in New York and most recently on Cockatoo Island as part of the Biennale of Sydney 2012.
Qureshi won the Artists Prize for his site-specific installation Blessings upon the Land of My Love at the 2011 Sharjah Biennale. His works are held in the collections of the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Queensland Art Galleries and Museum, Brisbane; the Harris Museum, Preston; and the National Art Gallery, Islamabad, amongst others. He is also a member of the Pakistani collective workshop Darmiyaan, set up by his wife and fellow artist Aisha Khalid to reflect on their position as artists in the wake of September 11.
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Born
1972
Hyderabad, Pakistan
Education
1993 Bachelor of Fine Arts, National College of Arts, Lahore
Exhibitions
Select Solo Exhibitions
2010 ‘All Are The Color of My Heart’,...
Select Solo Exhibitions
2010 ‘All Are The Color of My Heart’, Chawkandi Art, Karachi; Rohtas 2, Lahore; Pao Gallery, Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong
2007 ‘Encounters: Imran Qureshi’, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford
2007 Canvas Art Gallery, Karachi
2006 Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi
2004 Corvi-Mora, London
2002 Chowkandi Art Gallery, Karachi
1996 Rohtas Gallery, Islamabad
1995 Alliance Française Gallery, Lahore
Select Group Exhibitions
2011 ‘Paiinting Show’, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
2011 ‘Political Patterns: Ornament im Wandel’, ifa-GALERIE, Berlin
2011 ‘And Nothing But the Truth: The Problem of Parrhesia’, IVS Gallery, Karachi
2010 ‘Mazaar Bazaar’, Zahoor ul Akhlaq Gallery, National College of Arts, Lahore
2009 ‘Mashq: Repetition Meditation Mediation’, Green Cardamom, London
2007 ‘Friends of Rohtas’, Rohtas 2, Lahore
2005 ‘One to One’, Alhamra Art Gallery, Lahore
2005 ‘A Gathering of Seasons’, Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi
2004 ‘Expander’, Royal Academy of Arts, 6 Burlington Gardens, London
2003 ‘New Work’, Corvi-Mora, London
2003 ‘Negotiating Borders’, Siddhartha Art Gallery, Kathmandu
2002 ‘Around the Miniature’, Canvas Gallery, Karachi
2001 Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK
2001 ‘Manoeuvering Miniatures’, IIC Gallery, New Delhi; Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2001 Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
2001 ‘In Conversation’, Gallery Espace, New Delhi
2000 Alliance Française, Singapore
2000 Canvas Art Gallery, Karachi
2000 Didrichsen Art Museum, Kuusisaari, Finland
1999 Notices Gallery, Singapore
1998 National Art Gallery, Malaysia
1997 Lionel Wiendt Art Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka
1997 ‘Draped & Shaped’, Cartwright Hall, Bradford, UK
Joint Exhibitions
2011 ‘They Said it Was Love....’, with Atif Khan at Lakeeren Art Gallery, Mumbai
2010 With Aisha Khalid at Corvi-Mora, London
2007 ‘Portraits and Vortexes’, with Aisha Khalid at The Experimental Gallery, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2007 With Aisha Khalid at Corvi-Mora, London
2005 With Aisha Khalid at Chawkandi Art Gallery, Karachi
2001 With Aisha Khalid at Corvi-Mora, London
2001 With Aisha Khalid at Admit One Gallery, New York
2000 With Farida Batool at Sim Sim Art Gallery, Lahore
1999 With Aisha Khalid at Chowkandi Art Gallery, Karachi
1997 With Tahir Mehmood at Off-Set Portfolio Centre, Islamabad
1997 With Tahir Mehmood at Gallery NCA, Lahore
Participations
2012 ‘Sub-Topical Heat: New Art From South Asia’, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
2012 18th Biennale of Sydney: All our relations", Cockatoo Island, Sydney
2011 ‘Realms of Intimacy: Miniaturist Practice from Pakistan’, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
2011 ‘Signature Art Prize Finalist Exhibition’, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2011 ‘Sharjah Biennial 10: Plot For A Biennial’, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah
2011 ‘Old Intersections – Make It New’, 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
2011 ‘Political Patterns: Ornament im Wandel’, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen
2011 ‘Intimate Pictures, Pakistani Contemporary Miniatures’, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo
2010 ‘Beyond the Page: Contemporary Art from Pakistan’, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena
2009 ‘East–West DIVAN: Contemporary Art from Afghanistan, Iran & Pakistan’, La Scuola Grande della Misericordia, Venice
2009 ‘Hanging Fire’, Asia Society, New York
2009 ‘Outside In: Alternative Narratives In Contemporary Art’, University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong
2009 ‘Die Macht Des Ornaments’, Belvedere, Vienna
2008 ‘Living Traditions’, Queen’s Palace, Bagh-e-babur, Kabul
2007 ‘Beyond the Page: Contemporary Art from Pakistan’, Foyle Gallery, MAC Arts, Birmingham, UK
2006 ‘Beyond the Page: Contemporary Art from Pakistan’, Asia House, London
2006 ‘I Love my Country but I think we Should Start Seeing other People’, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
2006 Singapore Biennale, Singapore
2005 ‘Karkhana: A Contemporary Collaboration’, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2005 ‘Miniatures Contemporaines Du Pakistan’, La Halle Villefranche De Rouergue
2005 ‘Re-inventing Narratives’, La Galerie Mohamed el Fassi, Morocco
2005 ‘Beyond Borders: Art from Pakistan’, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
2004 ‘Contemporary Miniature Paintings from Pakistan’, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka
2004 ‘The Drawn Page’, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT 2004 ‘Playing with a Loaded Gun’, Museum Fridericianum Kassel
2003 ‘Karkhana’, Touchstones Art Gallery, Rochdale, UK
2003 ‘Contemporary Miniatures from Pakistan’, K3 - Project Space, Zürich
2003 ‘Playing with a Loaded Gun : Contemporary Art in Pakistan’, apexart, New York
2003 ‘The American Effect’, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2003 ‘Miniatures Pakistanaises’, Maison d'Art Contemporain Chaillioux, Fresnes, France
2002 ‘The Galleries Show: Contemporary Art in London’, The Royal Academy of Arts, London
2002 ‘Threads, Dreams, Desires’, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, UK
2000 ‘Pakistan Another Vision’, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, UK; Center of Contemporary Art, Glasgow, UK; Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield, UK; Brunei Gallery, London
1999 Third Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia
1997 8th Asian Art Biennale, Shilpkala Academy, Bangladesh
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