Mahreen Asif Zuberi (born January 6, 1981) is a Pakistani artist from
Karachi
Karachi (; ur, ; ; ) is the most populous city in Pakistan and 12th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 20 million. It is situated at the southern tip of the country along the Arabian Sea coast. It is the former cap ...
,
Pakistan
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. She studied at the
National College of Arts
The National College of Arts (colloquially known as NCA) is a public university located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
Overview
National College of Arts - A Federal Chartered Institute is the oldest art school in Pakistan and the second oldest i ...
in
Lahore
Lahore ( ; pnb, ; ur, ) is the second most populous city in Pakistan after Karachi and 26th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 13 million. It is the capital of the province of Punjab where it is the largest city. ...
where she completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts with distinction.
Career
She works at
Karachi University
The University of Karachi ( sd, ; informally Karachi University, KU, or UoK) is a public research university located in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Established in June 1951 by an act of Parliament and as a successor to the University of Sindh (whi ...
in Karachi, Pakistan as the Fine Arts program Coordinator in the Department of Visual Studies.
Her work has been exhibited since 2003.
Her work is in the collection of the
QAGOMA
The Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, colloquially known as QAGOMA, is an art museum in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It consists of the Queensland Art Gallery (QAG), which is the main building, and a second gallery, the Ga ...
(Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art), the
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
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and the
Devi Art Foundation
The Devi Art Foundation is a contemporary art museum located in Gurgaon, Delhi, India.
The museum opened in September 2008, making it the first contemporary art museum in India. It was founded by Anupam Poddar and his mother Lekha Poddar, whose ...
.
Exhibitions
* "A Thousand and One Days: The Art of Pakistani Women Miniaturists",
Honolulu Academy of Arts
The Honolulu Museum of Art (formerly the Honolulu Academy of Arts) is an art museum in Honolulu, Hawaii. The museum is the largest of its kind in the state, and was founded in 1922 by Anna Rice Cooke. The museum has one of the largest single col ...
(2005, group exhibit)
*"Hanging fire",
Asia Society Museum (2008, group exhibit)
*"Associated Metaphors: An exhibition of Neo-Miniatures", IVS Gallery (2008, group exhibit)
*"Resemble Reassemble", Devi Art Foundation (2010, group exhibit)
* "Contemporary Miniatures", (2011-2012, traveling group exhibit)
*
Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum
Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum is a heritage-listed former town hall and now art gallery and museum at 144 Goondoon Street, Gladstone, Gladstone Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Roy Chipps and built from 1933 to 1 ...
*
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Perc ''(pronounced purse)'' Tucker Regional Gallery is a heritage-listed public art gallery in the Townsville CBD, City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
Located on the corner of Flinders and Denham streets, the Gallery has a collection of o ...
*''Exercising the Border.'' Anita Rogers Gallery, New York (2023)
Further reading
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References
1981 births
Living people
Artists from Karachi
National College of Arts alumni
Academic staff of the University of Karachi
Academic staff of Beaconhouse National University
Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture alumni
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