Education

1987–90

BFA, University of Oxford, Somerville College, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford, UK

1986–87

Foundation Course, Wimbledon School of Art, London, UK

Solo Exhibitions

2010

Restore the Boundaries: The Manora Project, Rossi & Rossi, London, UK, and Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE*

2008

The Skin She Wears, Rossi & Rossi, London, UK*

Iron Clouds, Gallery Rohtas 2, Lahore, Pakistan*

Iron Clouds, Rohtas Gallery, Islamabad, Pakistan*

2007

Heavenly Ornaments, Canvas Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan*

2006

bare the fact bear the fact, Chemould Gallery, Mumbai, India*

2004

Exhale, Canvas Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan*

2000

Voices Merge, Chawkandi Art, Karachi, Pakistan

1995

La Linea Negra, Gallery 7, Hong Kong

1993

Chawkandi Art, Karachi, Pakistan

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011

Dress Code Project, Art Sawa, Dubai/Abu Dhabi, UAE

Shifting Ground: Faiza Butt and Naiza Khan, Amelia Johnson Contemporary, Hong Kong, in conjunction with Rossi & Rossi, London, UK*

Distinct Voices, Diverse Impressions (Artist Printmakers), Koel Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan

2010

Manifesta 8, Chamber of Public Secrets, Murcia, Spain

Cairo Biennale, Cairo, Egypt

Medrar 4th Cairo Video Festival, Cairo, Egypt

Boys and Girls Come Out to Play, Rossi & Rossi, London, UK

REsemble REassemble, Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi, India

Svelando l’Utopia, Alberto Peola Gallery, Turin, Italy

Taking Issue, Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff School of Art & Design, University of Wales, Cardiff, UK

Between Kismet & Karma: South Asian Women Artists Respond to Conflict, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK*

2009

Hanging Fire, Asia Society Gallery and Museum, New York, USA*

The Emperor’s New Clothes, Talwar Gallery, New York, USA

ART HK 09, Hong Kong

2008

Arte Fiera di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

PULSE Contemporary Art Fair, Miami, USA

SH Contemporary, Shanghai, China

Desperately Seeking Paradise, Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE*

Crossroads, Elementa, Dubai, UAE*

Women of Light, Galerie Davide Gallo, Berlin, Germany

Let’s Draw the Line, Chawkandi Art, Karachi, Pakistan*

2007

Figurative Pakistan, Aicon Gallery, London, UK*

Contemporary Art from Pakistan, Thomas Erben Gallery,New York, USA

An Intensity of Space and Substance, Re-forming Landscape, Figurative Moving On, Inaugural Show, National Art Gallery, Islamabad, Pakistan*

Multiple Editions: One, Chawkandi Art, Karachi, Pakistan*

2006

7th Bharat Bhavan International Biennial of Print-Art, Bhopal, India

2005

Layers of Time and Space, ifa Gallery, Berlin/Stuttgart, Germany*

SCOPE London Art Fair, London, UK

One to One: 58 Works, 58 Years, 58 Artists, Alhamra Art Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan*

Beyond Borders: Art of Pakistan, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India

2004

Living Masters—Young Voices, Alhamra, Lahore, Pakistan*

Cover Girl: The Female Body and Islam in Contemporary Art, Ise Cultural Foundation, New York, USA

2003

Anima e Corpo, 43rd Premio Suzzara, Suzzara, Italy*

2002

Threads, Dreams and Desires: ArtSouthAsia, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, UK*

Gasworks Studio Artists Residency Exhibition, London, UK

11th Asian Art Biennale, Dhaka, Bangladesh

2001

The Eye Still Seeks, Ivan Doughty Gallery, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia*

Vasl International Artists’ Workshop (a Triangle Workshop), Gadani, Pakistan

2000

Pakistan: Another Vision—Fifty Years of Painting and Sculpture from Pakistan, The Brunei Gallery, London, UK, and National Tour*

Curatorships

2010

The Rising Tide: New Directions in Art from Pakistan 1990–2010, Mohatta Palace Museum, Karachi, Pakistan

2007

Drawing the Line, Part of the Inaugural Exhibition at the National Art Gallery, Islamabad, Pakistan

2005

Co-curator, Voices, Pakistan Development Forum, Islamabad, Pakistan

Awards

2011

PLS (Pakistan Lecture Series) Award, AIPS (American Institute of Pakistan Studies), USA

2009

Women of Strength Award, TV One, Pakistan

2006

7th Bharat Bhavan International Biennial of Print, Honorary Mention, India

2003

Prize, 43rd Premio Suzzara, Suzzara, Italy

2003

National Excellence Award, 8th National Exb. Visual Arts, Pakistan

2002

Lever Brothers, 1st Lux Award for Visual Artist of the Year, Pakistan

Bibliography

All aforementioned exhibitions with published catalogues are marked with an asterisk (*).

2010

Samia Zaidi (ed.), Mazaar, Bazaar: Design and Visual Culture in Pakistan, Oxford University Press

Iftikhar Dadi, Modernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia, University of North Carolina Press

2009

Iftikhar Dadi, ‘Ghostly Sufis and Ornamental Shadows: Spectral Visualities in Karachi’s Public Sphere’, in Comparing Cities: Middle East and South Asia,

Kamran Asdar Ali and Martina Rieker (eds.), Oxford University Press

2007

Salima Hashmi and Yashodhara Dalmia, Memory, Metaphor, Mutations: The Contemporary Art of India and Pakistan, Oxford University Press

Suad Joseph (ed.), Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures (Volume 5), Brill

2006

Polar Magazine, Berlin, Issue 1

John Holt, Fareda Khan, Alnoor Mitha, Dr. Jacques Rangasamy and Dr. Laura Turney (eds.), Mapping ArtSouthAsia: A Visual and Cultural Dialogue between Britain and South Asia, Shisha

2005

Caroline Turner (ed.), Art and Social Change: Contemporary Art in Asia and the Pacific, Pandanus Books

2004

Enrico Mascelloni, Caravan Café: Art from Central Asia, ACAS Services

2002

Salima Hashmi, Unveiling the Visible: Lives and Works of Women Artists of Pakistan, ActionAid Pakistan

1997

Salima Hashmi and Quddus Mirza, 50 Years of Visual Arts in Pakistan, Asia Society Museum