Resume
Education
2015 – 2019 M.A, Aalto University, Finland.
Major: Visual Culture, Curating and Contemporary Arts.
Minor: Game and Narrative Design.
2009 – 2013 BFA (HONS), National College of Arts, Lahore.
Major: Painting
Minor: Sculpture
Film works
2020 Paper Promises– Writer & Director
- International Premiere – Academy Award qualifying PÖFF Shorts, Black Nights Film Festival
- Selected for screening in 2021 on Finnish National broadcasting company Yle
- National Premiere – Helsinki International Film Festival 2020 (HIFF)
- Selected for HIFF National Competition 2020, Cut to the chase – R&A Shorts
- Received the Audience Award at Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy 2020
2020 In.Revolt, Helsinki International Film Festival, Trailer for short film Festival – Cinematographer.
2020 Dog Day – Camera Assistant
- Selected for screening in 2021 on Finnish National broadcasting company Yle
2020 Death in Paradise – Assistant Director
2020 Leftovers – Cinematographer
- National Premiere – Tampere Film Festival 2021
2020 Leonarda: Flesh Ain’t Weak – Gaffer
- Selected for screening in 2021 on Finnish National broadcasting company Yle
- National Premiere – Helsinki International Film Festival 2020 (HIFF)
- Selected for HIFF National Competition 2020, Cut to the chase – R&A Shorts
2017 Ego Cure (VR film) – Concept/ CGI Artist
- National Premiere – Kiasma (Museum of Contemporary Arts), Helsinki.
Selected exhibitions
2021 (Upcoming) Group Exhibition – Mänttä Art Festival 2021, Mänttä, Finland.
2020 Group Exhibition – Big Brothers& Sisters ed. 2, Vapaan Taiteen Tila, Helsinki, Finland.
2020 Group Exhibition – Stories from the sea, Stories from the city, Stoa, Helsinki, Finland.
2019 Group Exhibition – The Crew: taco stuffs and life ‘after’ the institution, Galleria Huuto, Helsinki, Finland.
2019 Group Exhibition – Waiting for the hidden gardens to draw us- closer, Kirpilä Art Collection, Helsinki, Finland.
2018 Solo Exhibition – An Exercise in learning what ‘they’ don’t say when they speak, Third Space Gallery, Helsinki, Finland.
2018 Group Exhibition – System & Error, EKKM – Museum of Contemporary Art Tallinn, Tallinn, Estonia.
2017 Group Exhibition – Reviewing Richter, Zbirka Richter, Zagreb, Croatia.
2016 Group exhibition – SOAK, m/s Illusia, Kalasatama, Helsinki, Finland.
2016 Group exhibition – Whose History Is It Anyway?*, Aalto Universty, Espoo, Finland.
2015 Group exhibition – Project- Symbiosis, Aalto Universty, Espoo, Finland.
Workshops
2017 Retrospective exhibition (Ivana Franke, Tommi Grönlund and Petteri Nisunen) – Perceptual Drift (Galaxies in Mind) / GREY AREA, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Croatia.
Artist Assistant
2015 Rivers of the world – A British council workshop between children from Jehlum, Pakistan and London, United Kingdom.
Lecturer
Professional history
2013 – 15 Pakistan Institute of Fashion and Design, Lahore, Pakistan – Instructed Art History, Materials and Models.
Lecturer
2010 – 12 Gallery Rohtas-2, Lahore, Pakistan.
Curatorial Assistant
Publications
2019 Article published in Globe Art Point Helsinki blog, Groundlessness: Reflections in first and third person.
2018 Interview published inthe 29th CuMMA Paper ‘Unframing the Artist” – An interview with Salima Hashmi.
Grants, awards & scholarships
2021 Recipient of a working grant and a project grant from Finnish Cultural Foundation.
2020 Recipient of the Audience Award at Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy 2020.
2017 Awarded a grant by Aalto University to present an experimental game project at the Nordic game conference (NGC 17) in Slagthuset, Malmo, Sweden.
2016 Awarded first position and prize money for winning a mural painting competition organized by AYY (Aalto University student union), Helsinki, Finland.
2013 Work published in “ART NOW” Pakistan’s Contemporary Art Magazine – Selected among the top 5 young Artist of the year 2013.
2011 Awarded the Faiz Art prize 2011. Works published in the 2011 issue-2 vol-6 of Nukta Art (Biannual Art Magazine).
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