Born 1979 in Lahore, Pakistan
education
MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London, 2008
BFA Film Production, Concordia University, Montreal, 2004
selected group exhibitions:
2016
Navigating Memory: Exploring Place, Burlington City Arts, Burlington, VT
2015
Phenomenology of Perception, Exhibit 320, New Delhi
And Nothing But the Truth, Parrhesia II, Koel, Karachi
No Man’s Land, Gallery 39K, Lahore
2014
The Garden of Ideas: Contemporary Art from Pakistan, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto
Monitor Reruns, A Space Gallery, Toronto
2010
PRINT NOW, Bearspace, London, UK
The Rising Tide, New Directions in Art from Pakistan, Mohatta Palace Museum, Karachi
2008
Goldsmiths MFA Degree Show, Goldsmiths College, London,
The Lovers Were Ambassadors to Imaginary Utopias, Commune, Karachi,
2007
IM, Goldsmiths College, London
Year End Exhibition, Goldsmiths College, London
2006
Beyond the Page, Contemporary Art from Pakistan, Asia House, London
films
Death in the Garden of Paradise (16mm/video), 21 min, 2004
Screenings:
2011
7th Asian Women’s Film Festival, New Delhi
Remnants of Your Departure, Art Gallery of Hamilton
2007
Festival of 3 Continents, Nantes
Anthology Film Archives, New York
2006
Poetry + Projections, Drake Underground, Toronto
Kassel Documentary and Video Festival, Kassel
Bollywood Prague Film Festival, Prague
Zanzibar International Film Festival, Zanzibar
Commonwealth International Film Festival, Manchester
Images Festival of Independent Film and Video, Toronto
It’s All True International Documentary Film Festival, Sao Palo
Monitor 2: A Programme of South Asian Film and Video, Toronto
Third I New York, Urban Hum of Pakistan, New York
Mumbai International Film Festival, Mumbai
2005
Dhaka International Short and Independent Film Festival, Dhaka,
IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Poetry + Projections, The Drake Hotel Underground, Toronto
Festival of New Cinema New Media, Montreal
Tasveer Seattle Independent South Asian Film Festival, Seattle
EBS International Documentary Festival, Seoul
Filmi Independent South Asian Film Festival, Toronto
awards and grants:
Ontario Arts Council Grant, Visual Media Arts 2010, 2004
Toronto Arts Council, Film and Video, 2010, 2004
Canada Council For the Arts, Travel Grant 2011, 2007, 2005
Marian McMahon Award, Images Festival 2006
Canada Council For the Arts Grant Emerging Artists in Film and Video Arts 2004
Best Student Documentary Award Montreal World Film Festival 2003
Czerny Award for Best Documentary Concordia University 2003
honors/nominations
Featured as an artist in Open Portfolios, Asian Contemporary Art Week, New York, 2009
Nominated for Silver Wolf Award, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, 2005
Nominated for Golden Gate Award (New Visions category), San Francisco International Film Festival, 2005
Listed as one of the Top Ten film artists in Toronto in Cameron Bailey’s list, NOW Magazine, Best of 2004 issue
Listed in Maclean’s Magazine as one of 25 notable undergraduates of the year, 2004