| Education | |
| 1994 | Master of Fine Arts, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, USA |
| 1992 | Bachelor of Fine Arts, National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan |
| Awards/Grants/Residencies | |
| 2006 | HAT exchange program residency: Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK |
| 2003 | International Artist of the Year Award 2002-2003, SAVAC: South Asian Visual Arts Collective, Toronto, Canada Hathor Prize, 9th Cairo International Biennale, Cairo, Egypt Darmiyaan workshop, Neher Ghar Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan Artist in Residence, Gasworks, London, UK |
| 2001 | Creation & Production Grant, Ontario Council of the Arts, Canada |
| 2000 | Creation & Production Grant Ontario Council of the Arts, Toronto Council of the Arts, Canada Creation & Production Grant Canada Council for the Arts, Canada Art-Link International Artist’s Workshop, Sri Lanka |
| 1992 | Distinction Award; Degree Show, National Collage of Art, Lahore, Pakistan |
| Solo Shows | |
| Nov 2007 | Dis-Location, Chatterjee & Lal in collaboration with Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India |
| Mar 2007 | The Politics of Fear, Albion, London, UK Inaugural Show (of the new venue), National Art Gallery, Islamabad, Pakistan |
| Feb 2006 | Reflected Looking, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India |
| Feb 2005 | Identical Views, Chatterjee & Lal in collaboration with Nature Morte, Mumbai, India |
| Oct 2004 | Identical Views, V.M. Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan |
| July 2004 | Identical Views, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India |
| Dec 2000 | Non-Sense, Rohtas Gallery, Islamabad, Pakistan |
| Aug 2000 | Non-Sense: One Person Show, Zahoor ul Akhlaq Gallery, NCA, Lahore, Pakistan |
| Group Shows | |
| Sep 2007 | Shanghai Contemporary, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China |
| Aug 2007 | Inaugural Show (of the new venue), National Art Gallery, Islamabad, Pakistan |
| July 2007 | Group Show: Contemporary Art from Pakistan, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, USA |
| Mar 2007 | The Politics of Fear, Albion, London, UK Mirror Worlds, Two Rooms, Auckland, New Zealand |
| Dec 2006 | 5th Asia Pacific Triennale, Queensland Gallery of Art, Australia |
| Nov 2006 | EX-OTICA, Gallery Vitamin, Turin, Italy |
| Nov 2006 | Artissima Art Fair, Turin, Italy |
| Oct 2006 | Grid <> Matrix, Kemper Art Museum, St Louis, USA |
| Oct 2006 | Lille 3000: Desi Pop, Lille, France |
| Sep 2006 | 1st Singapore Biennale, Singapore |
| Aug 2006 | Beyond the Page: Contemporary Art from Pakistan, Asia House, London, UK Beyond the Page: Contemporary Art from Pakistan, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK |
| June 2006 | Art Basel, represented by Nature Morte, Basel, Switzerland |
| May 2006 | Art Taipei, represented by Nature Morte, Taiwan Asian Contemporary Art Week, organized by ASIA Society, Gallery Korea NY, USA |
| Apr 2006 | Flights of Fancy, Royaat Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan |
| Mar 2006 | Mirror Worlds: (traveling exhibition), Institute of the Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia |
| Feb 2006 | Parallel Realities: 3rd Fukuoka Triennale (travelling to) Blackburn Museum of Art, Blackburn, UK |
| Dec 2005 | Bitmap: International Digital Photo Project, Loop, Korea |
| Nov 2005 | New Media Art from Pakistan, Artist Village, Kowloon, Hong Kong |
| Oct 2005 | KOVIDEO: 1st Durban Video Festival, Kazna Gallery, South Africa |
| Sep 2005 | Parallel Realities: 3rd Fukuoka Triennale, Fukuoka Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan |
| July 2005 | Three Person Show, Bose Pacia, New York, USA |
| May 2005 | Mirror Worlds: Contemporary Video from Asia, Australian Center for Photography, Sydney, Australia |
| Feb 2005 | Beyond Borders: Art from Pakistan, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India |
| Nov 2004 | South Asian Master: Old Masters and Young Voices, Alahamra Art Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan |
| Sep 2004 | Art Summit IV Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Jakarta, Indonesia |
| Apr 2004 | Playing with a Loaded Gun, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany |
| Mar 2004 | Along the X axis: video art from India and Pakistan, Apeejay Gallery, New Delhi, India |
| Feb 2004 | 10th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh, Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| 2003-2004 | 9th Cairo International Biennale, Cairo, Egypt |
| 2002-2004 | Global Priority, traveling exhibition, 2004- San Francisco Arts Commission gallery, San Francisco |
| 2003 | Pier II Gallery in Taiwan 2002-Jamaica Center for the Arts, NY Playing with a Loaded Gun, Apexart, New York Miniatures Pakistanises, Maison d’Art Contemporarian Chaillioux, Paris, France |
| 2002 | Around Miniature, Royaat, Lahore Around Miniature, Canvas Gallery, Karachi Painting over the lines: Five Contemporary Artists from Pakistan, York Quay Gallery, Toronto, Canada Painting over the lines: Five Contemporary Artists from Pakistan, Indo Center for Art and Culture, New York, USA |
| 2001 | Crossing the Line (Site Specific project at Jackson heights NY), A Project of Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA |
| 2000 | Context, Bare-Foot Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka Another Vision: 50 years of Pakistani Art (Traveling Exhibition) Brunei Gallery, SOAS London, Oldham Art Gallery, Haddonfield Art Gallery, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, UK |
| Selected Public Commissions / Projects | |
| 2005-2007 | Rusholm Project, Rashid Rana & Subodh Gupta, organized by SHISHA, Manchester, UK |
| 2002-2004 | Aar Paar Project, Mumbai & Karachi |
| Teaching | |
| 2002-2005 | Associate Professor, School of Visual Arts, Beaconhouse National University, Lahore, Pakistan |
| 1995-2002 | Dept of Fine Art & MA Visual Arts, National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan |
| 1995-2004 | Pakistan School of Fashion Design, Lahore, Pakistan |
| Talks | |
| 2005 - 2006 | Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK |
| 2005 | Lahore Arts Forum, Lahore, Pakistan Bose Pacia Modern, New York, USA |
| 2003 | Gasworks, London, UK |
| 2002 | Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi, Pakistan York Quay gallery, Harbor front Center, Toronto, Canada |
Bibliography
Books and Catalogues
Seear, Lynne & Rafeel, Suhanya. The 5th Asia-Pacific Triennaial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, 2006
Slater, Ben. 1st Singapore Biennale, Belief, Singapore, 4th Sept - 12th Nov, 2006
Dawood, Anita & Nassr, Hammad. Beyond The Page, Contemporary Art From Pakistan, Asia House London And Manchester Art Gallery, UK 2006
Christie’s Hong Kong Asian Contemporary Art; Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Nov 2006
Christie’s Hong Kong Asian Contemporary Art, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Spring 2006
The 3rd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, 2005
Nagy, Peter. Rashid Rana: Identical Views, Chatterjee & Lal-Mumbai, Nature Morte-New Delhi, Bose Pacia-New York, 2005
Hashmi, Salima. South Asian Masters: Old Masters and Young Voices, Alhamra Arts Gallery, Lahore, 2004
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Furrukh, Nillofur. Urran, Zenini Gallery, Karachi, 2002
Connah, Roger. Zahoor ul Akhlaq, Toronto; LAAL Publications, 2000
Wilcox, Timothy. Another Vision, SOAS, London, 2000
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