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Naiza H Khan

Education

1987-90 University of Oxford, Somerville College
Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art
1986-87 Wimbledon School of Art

Solo Exhibitions

2008 *Iron Clouds Rohtas Gallery May/June Lahore/Islamabad
2007 *Heavanly Ornaments Canvas Gallery Karachi
2006 *bare the fact, bear the fact Chemould Gallery Mumbai
2004 *Exhale Canvas Gallery Karachi
2000 Voices Merge Chawkandi Art Karachi
1995 La Linea Negra Gallery 7 Hong Kong
1993 Chawkandi Art Karachi

Selected Exhibitions

2008 *Desperately seeking paradise Art Dubai Dubai
  *Crossroads Elementa Dubai
  *Women of Light Davide Gallo Gallery Berlin
  *Lets Draw the Line Chawkandi Art Karachi
2007 *Figurative Pakistan Action Gallery London
  An Intensity of Space and Substance, Re-forming Landscape,
Figurative Impulse Inaugural show, National Art Gallery
Islamabad
  Talespinning: the Role of Storytelling in Art Crow eaters Gallery Lahore
  **Multiple editions-one Chawkandi Art Karachi
2006 7th Bharat Bhavan International Biennial of Print-Art Bhopal
  *Contemporary Pakistani Printmakers Taliesin Art Centre Swansea
7th Bharat Bhavan International Biennial of Print-Art Bhopal
2005 * Layers of time and space Ifa Gallery Berlin/Stuttgart
ScopeLondon- art fair London
One to One, 58 works 58 years 58 artists Alhamra Art Gallery Lahore
*Beyond Borders – Art of Pakistan National Gallery of Modern Art Bombay
2004 *Living Masters - Young Voices Alhamra Lahore
Pakistani Printmakers Minnesota USA
High Point Centre of Printmaking, Minneapolis USA
Another Dawn Rohtas Gallery Islamabad Islamabad
Cover Girl: the Female Body and Islam in Contemporary Art New York
Ise Cultural Foundation
2003 *Anima e corpo 43rd Premio Suzzara Itlay
2002 *ArtSouthAsia Harris Museum England
Gasworks Studios Artist's Residency London
11th Asian Art Biennale Dhaka
2001 *The Eye Still Seeks Ivan Doughty Gallery, UNSW Sydney
*Vasl International Artists' Workshop (Triangle Workshop) Gadani, Pakistan
* Global Women Project White Columns New York
2000 *Another Vision Fifty years of painting and sculpture in Pakistan London
1998 * Lines of Desire Bluecoat Gallery, a touring exhibition Liverpool
1996 Rohtas Gallery Islamabad
1994 7th International Dhaka Biennale Dhaka
*An Intelligent Rebellion Bradford Art Gallery Bradford UK
* 6th National Exhibition of Visual Arts Islamabad
* Catalogued Shows

Awards

2006 7th Bharat Bhavan International Biennial of Print-Honorary mention India
2003 Prize, 43rd Premio Suzzara Itlay
2003 National Excellence Award, 8th National Exb. Visual Arts Pakistan
2002 Lever Brothers, 1st Lux Award for Visual Artist of the year Pakistan

Publications

Memory, Metaphor, Mutations The Contemporary Art of India and Pakistan, Salima Hashmi and Yashodara Dalmia - Oxford University Press 2007
Ghostly Sufis and Ornamental Shadows:
Spectral Visualities in Karachi's Public Sphere by Iftikhar Dadi in: Re-exploring the Urban: Citiscapes in South Asia and the Middle East, Edited by Kamran Ali & Martina Rieker Oxford University Press, Pakistan 2007
(to be published)
in: Re-exploring the Urban: Citiscapes in South Asia and the Middle East, Edited by Kamran Ali & Martina Rieker Oxford University Press, Pakistan 2007
Women, Gender Representations of Sexualities and Gender in the Visual Arts Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (Volume 5) Ed. Suad Joseph 2007
Polar Magazine, Berlin Issue I 2006
Mappings ArtSouthAsia pub. Shisha 2006
Art and Social Change Contemporary art in Asia and the Pacific Edited by Caroline Turner pub. Pandanus Books 2005
Caravan Café Art from Central Asia, Enrico Mascelloni 2004
Unveiling the Visible Lives and Works of Women Artists of Pakistan by Salima Hashmi 2002 p.158-161
50 Years of Visual Arts in Pakistan Salima Hashmi and Quddus Mirza 1997

Reviews

2008 Paradise found and Lost ArtAsiaPascific, Salima Hashmi March/April Pakistan art 11 Dawn Gallery 15 March
2007 Armour Paramour Asim Butt Herald May p136-137
  Bodies Cast Auj Khan TFT vol XIX May 4-10 p20-21
2006 Art India, April by Shilpa Phadke  
  Amalgam of cultures Hindustan Times, Gitanjali Dang March 24
Mumbai Time Out Mumbai
March 24
March 10-23 Reviews p42
  Culture crosses borders Mumbai Mirror March 1 p.42
Exquisite Pain Aasim Akhtar The News on Sunday March 19
2005 Impassioned Voices: Art as Social Commentary in Pakistan Atteqa Ali, Art Asia Pasific September issue
ArtLab- Jagath Weerasingh (in Senelese) Oct. 22
2004 Spirit in Chains Niilofur Farrukh Newsline June p124-125
Expressions of life Mohsin S Jaffri The News May 9 p.30
Sieving things through Salwat Ali, Dawn Gallery May 8 p.5
Art Material Quddus Mirza The News March 21 p28
Oscillating between art mediums – Sahnaz Ramzi Star Weekend June 5
Art Material Quddus Mirza The News March 21 p.28
Bodying Forth Salima Hashmi Art India, vol. IX issue III p106-107
Art India Vol IX issue IV p.60, 73
2003 Exploring the complex Marjorie Hussain, Dawn Gallery Dec. 20 p.1, 2
2002 Weaving Dreams Ayesha Khan, Dawn Gallery p.7
Craft in Art – Quddus Mirza The News July 21 p.28
Hair and there Quddus Mirza The News July 14 p. 28
Art Monthly Australia Under the Sign of Faiz July issue p.30-32
2001 Art India volume 6 issue 1 Engendering Hands Quddus Mirza p.90-91

Naiza is currently Co-coordinator for the Vasl Artists’ Collective. She has been Head of the Painting Department (2003 – 04) at Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi, and is part of their Fine Art Faculty.