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︎︎︎ EDUCATION 


2024    MFA - Virginia Commonwealth University - Richmond, VA, U.S.A
            Sculpture + Extended Media (Full Merit Scholarship)

2021    BFA - National College of Arts - Lahore, PK 
            Fine Arts | Graduated with Distinction (Merit Scholarship)


︎︎︎ GROUP & SOLO EXHIBITIONS 


2024

Southern Survey Biennial II, Project Row Houses
Houston, TX
Phone, Wallet, Keys., Coco Hunday

Tampa, FL

ears lick, eyes touch, The Anderson

Richmond, VA

Lagos Biennial, Àkéte Art Foundation

Lagos, Nigeria

2023

Press Play, Publication fair, Pioneer Works 

Brooklyn, NY, USA

Four Days, National College of Arts 

Lahore, Pakistan

Art Beyond Walls, June Collective  

Lahore. Pakistan

MisMatch, DePillars Gallery, VCUarts 

Richmond, VA, USA

What if we hugged at the JC Penney?, VCU Candicacy Show 

Richmond, VA, USA

2022

Karachi Biennial, Karachi Biennale Trust 

Karachi, Pakistan

Flats, DePillars Gallery, VCUarts  

Richmond, VA, USA

The Factory Project, The Factory 

Lahore, Pakistan

2021
<de>confine, Media Art South Asia

Virtual Show

Lahore Digital Arts Festival x National College of Arts Collaboration, LDF

Virtual Show

Broadcast Vol II, O Art Space

Lahore, Pakistan

If You Have Tears, Canvas Gallery

Karachi, Pakistan

Towards Home, Dominion Gallery

Lahore, Pakistan

2013

Pakistani Voices: In Conversation with Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series, Phillips Collection

Washington D.C., USA

︎︎︎ AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS


2024    Graduate Research Grant, School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University

2023    William Gaines Scholarship, Sculpture + Extended Media, VCU

2023    VCUarts Graduate Summer Research Grant, Virginia Commonwealth University
2022    VCUarts Graduate Travel Grant, Virginia Commonwealth University
2022    Paul F. Miller Graduate Scholarship, Sculpture + Extended Media, VCU
2021    Colin David Gold Medal, Dept. of Painting, Fine Arts, NCA
2021    Shakir Ali Award, Fine Arts, NCA
2021    Zahoor ul Akhlaq Award, Dept of Painting, Fine Arts, NCA
2021    Kipling Award, School of the Arts, NCA



︎︎︎ RESIDENCIES


2023    SOMA Summer, Mexico
2022    C3: Codes, Creativity, Communities | Virtual initiation by Goethe-Institut & BeFantastic
2018    SPIC Macay, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bengal, India


︎︎︎ TEACHING EXPERIENCE


2023–2024    Virginia Commonwealth University, Instructor            

Richmond, VA, USA

2023     June Collective, Workshop Instructor                          

Lahore, Pakistan

2022–2024    Virginia Commonwealth University, Graduate School Assistant

Richmond, VA, USA

2021–2022    National College of Arts, Instructor      

Lahore, Pakistan

2021–2022 National College of Arts, Teaching Assistant      

Lahore, Pakistan

︎︎︎ WORK 


2024-present   Audio Visual Tech PT

The Cooper Union - New York, NY

2024-present    House Manager PT

The Kitchen - New York, NY

2022-2024    Graduate School Assistant

Virginia Commonwealth University - School of the Arts - Richmond, VA

2021-2022    Teaching Assistant

National College of Arts - Lahore, PK

2021-2022    Animator

Seven Local Film - Queens, NY

2021    Graphic Designer

Group Development Pakistan (Federal Project) - Islamabad, PK

2019    Animator

Puffball Studios - Lahore, PK

︎︎︎ BIBLIOGRAPHY


2025 Project Row Houses’ Biennials Change the Gallery Game | Houstonia Magazine

2024 Politics of Being a Lover: in art, (space) and kink | Thesis Dissertation, VCU
2024 This Week in African Art and Culture | Sugarcane
2023 On Art & Other Man-Made Objects | The Karachi Collective
2022 Artistic ideas and modern technology in hybrid hues | Dawn Newspaper
2022 VISIONARY WOMEN | The News PK
2022 On Coevolution, and the Spaces We Build for Ourselves – Dialog on KB22 | The Karachi Collective
2021 If You Have Tears | The News PK
2021 Art Review: Towards Home at Dominion Gallery | Youlin Magazine