Born 1982

EDUCATION

2007 BFA | Beaconhouse National University, Pakistan

COLLECTIONS

Art in Embassies | State Department USA

Slought Foundation | USA

Imago Mundi Collection, Fondazione Benetton | Italy

Devi Art Foundation | India

AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS

2023 Excellence Award | Beaconhouse National University

2014 Juror | United Nations ‘Art for Peace’ Contest

2009 Finalist | Sovereign Asian Art Prize, Hong Kong

2003 Award for Academic Excellence | South Asia Foundation

CONFERENCES & PANEL TALKS

2021 SVAD Talks | Beaconhouse National University, Pakistan

2017 Solo Exhibition Talk | Sanat Gallery, Pakistan

2014 Panel Talk | Islamabad Literature Festival, Pakistan

2014 Panel Talk | Karachi Literature Festival, Pakistan

2013 Talking Art | Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture, Pakistan

2011 Art & Photography | Beaconhouse National University, Pakistan

2011 Artist Talk | Mansion - The Artist Residency, Pakistan

2011 Artist Talk | Taseer Art Gallery, Pakistan

2007 Artist Talk on Public Art | Annemarie Shimmel Haus, Pakistan

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017 Spirit of Visual | Sanat Gallery, Pakistan

2015 Always Forever Now | Lakeeren Gallery, India 

2015 Deeply Superficial | Canvas Gallery, Pakistan

2013 Abstraction in Immensity | Rohtas II Gallery, Pakistan

2009 Deeply Superficial | Zahur-Ul-Akhlaq Gallery, National College of Art, Pakistan

2009 Ways of Seeing | Alhamra Art Gallery, Pakistan

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 nonFunctional thoughts | The Wrong Biennale, Spain

2025 The Shape of Seeing | ZQ Gallery, Pakistan

2025 Faculty Group Exhibition | LSE Gallery, Pakistan

2018 Common Borders - Chapter 1 | Sanat Gallery, Pakistan

2017 Making History | Sanat Gallery, Pakistan

2016 Imago Mundi | Luciano Benetton Foundation, Venice Biennale, Italy

2015 Escritor/Yazar/Niviskar | Halka Sanat Projesi, Turkey

2015 Alternative Methods | Full Circle Gallery, Pakistan

2015 Tracing the Void | IVS Gallery, Pakistan 

2015 India Art Fair | Lakeeren Gallery, India

2015 NISHANA | Canvas Gallery, Pakistan

2014 Pasture Still Green? | Moscow Biennale, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia

2014 Stills of Peace & Everyday Life | Cathedral Museum of Atri, Italy

2014 I.D | Islamabad Literature Festival, Pakistan

2014 EX-IST | Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh

2014 Artfest 2014 | Frere Hall, Pakistan

2013 Auction Exhibition for Educational Fund | Governor House, Pakistan

2013 Extra-Ordinary | Canvas Gallery, Pakistan

2013 Crossing Over | Gallery Latitude 28, India

2012 JAMM Auction Exhibition | Contemporary Art Platform, Kuwait

2011 Residency Show | Mansion-The Artist Residency, Pakistan

2011 In Inner and Wider Circles | Slought Foundation, USA

2011 SCORE | The Drawing Room Art Gallery, Pakistan

2010 Sovereign Finalist Show | The Rotunda Square Exchange, Hong Kong

2010 Resemble Reassemble | Devi Art Foundation, India

2010 Sanjh | Alhamra Art Gallery, Pakistan

2009 Re-claim/Re-cite/Re-cycle | Bose Pacia Gallery, India

2009 Four Person Show | Canvas Art Gallery, Pakistan

2008 Tenth Anniversary Show | Galerie Mueller & Plate, Germany

2008 Polyptych | Alhamra Art Gallery, Pakistan

2007 Thirteen Satellites of Lahore II | Alliance Francaise, Pakistan

2007 Fact & Fiction | Lalit Kala Akademi, India 

2007 Fact & Fiction | SW1 Gallery, UK

2006 Thirteen Satellites of Lahore | Annemarie-Shimmel Haus, Pakistan

2006 Red Earth Art Project | Alliance Francaise, India

2006 Addendum | Caladan Gallery, USA

PUBLICATIONS

Contemplation: How Far Have We Moved, Anyway? | Express Tribune, Pakistan

Chine États-Unis, où s’arrêtera l’escalade | Le Monde Diplomatique, France

Pakistan’s Warm & Beating Artistic Heart | The Great British Life, UK

Photo Focus: Sajjad Ahmed | Betsy Williamson, South Asian Photo

Putting Together Fragments of History | Express Tribune, Pakistan

Abstract Takes A Beautiful Turn | Express Tribune, Pakistan

In Narrow Or Wider Circles | Slought Foundation, USA

Artist’s work: Fragments of History | Dawn, Pakistan

Resemble Re-assemble | Devi Art Foundation, India

Perpetual Peace Project | Haverford College, USA

Facts in Fiction | The News International, Pakistan

Exhibition Catalogue | Sanjh Catalogue, Pakistan

Art That Cuts Across Borders | India Today, India

Between Being & Nothingness | Dawn, Pakistan

Spaces Left To Re-examine | Art Now, Pakistan

To Dhaka With Love | Friday Times, Pakistan

Revenge of the Matter | The News, Pakistan

Exhibition Catalogue | Red Earth Art, India

Exhibition Catalogue | Polyptych, Pakistan

Exhibitions Review | Daily Times, Pakistan

Exhibitions Review | The News, Pakistan

Auction Catalogue | JAMM Art, Kuwait

South-Asia in Focus | Art Radar, Online

Media Report | Art Radar Asia | Online

Feature | Libas International, Pakistan

New Media Art | Platform Mag, India

Media Report | Indian Express, India

Media Report | The Caravan, India

House Holds | The News, Pakistan

Feature | Nukta Art Mag, Pakistan

Artist Profile | G.L.A.M, Pakistan

Interview | Deconarch, Germany

Media Report | The Wall, India

Artist Profile | GQ India

Matters of Art | India

Fact & Fiction | UK

Artsome | Online