naizahkhan@gmail.com

Education

1987-90 BFA University of Oxford, Somerville College Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art

1986-87 Foundation Course, Wimbledon School of Art

Solo Exhibitions

2008 The skin she wears* Rossi & Rossi Gallery London

2008 Iron Clouds* Rohtas II / Rohtas Lahore, Islamabad

2007 Heavenly 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 Group Exhibitions

2009 Hanging Fire* Asia Society New York

2009 The Emperor’s New Cloths Talwar Gallery New York

2008 Arte Fiera di Bologna Bologna

2008 Pulse Art Fair Miami

2008 ShContemporary Shanghai

2008 Desperately seeking paradise* Art Dubai Dubai

2008 Crossroads* Elementa Dubai

2008 Women of Light Davide Gallo Gallery Berlin

2008 Lets draw the line* Chawkandi Art Karachi

2007 Figurative Pakistan* Aicon Gallery London

2007 Contemporary Art from Pakistan, Thomas Erben Gallery New York

2007 An Intensity of Space and Substance, Re-forming Landscape, Figurative Impulse Inaugural show*, National Art Gallery Islamabad

2007 Multiple editions-one* Chawkandi Art Karachi

2006 7th Bharat Bhavan International Biennial of Print-Art Bhopal

2005 Layers of time and space* Ifa Gallery Berlin/Stuttgart 

2005 ScopeLondon- art fair London

2005 One to One* 58 works 58 years 58 artists Alhamra Art Gallery Lahore

2005 Beyond Borders – Art of Pakistan

2005 National Gallery of Modern Art Bombay

2004 Living Masters - Young Voices* Alhamra Lahore

2004 Cover Girl: the Female Body and Islam in Contemporary Art Ise Cultural Foundation New York

2003 Anima e corpo* 43rd Premio Suzzara Italy

2002 ArtSouthAsia* Harris Museum England

2002 Gasworks Studios Artist’s Residency London

2002 11th Asian Art Biennale Dhaka

2001 The Eye Still Seeks* Ivan Doughty Gallery, UNSW Sydney

2001 Vasl International Artists’ Workshop (a Triangle Workshop) Gadani, Pakistan

2000 Another Vision* Fifty years of painting and sculpture in Pakistan 

2000 Brunei Gallery London

Catalogued shows 

Awards

2006 7th Bharat Bhavan International Biennial of Print India

2003 Prize, 43rd Premio Suzzara Itlay

2003 National Excellence Award, 8th National Exb. Visual Arts Pakistan

2002 Unilever  1st Lux Award for Visual Artist of the year Pakistan

Publications

Ghostly Sufis and Ornamental Shadows:

Spectral Visualities in Karachi's Public Sphere by Iftikhar Dadi (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 (forthcoming)

2007 Memory, Metaphor, Mutations The Contemporary Art of India and Pakistan, Salima Hashmi and Yashodara Dalmia - Oxford University Press

2007 Women, Gender Representations of Sexualities and Gender in the Visual Arts Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (Volume 5) Ed. Suad Joseph

2006 Polar Magazine Berlin Issue I

2006 Mappings ArtSouthAsia pub. Shisha

2005 Art and Social Change Contemporary art in Asia and the Pacific Edited by Caroline Turner pub. Pandanus Books

2004 Caravan Café Art from Central Asia, Enrico Mascelloni

2002 Unveiling the Visible Lives and Works of Women Artists of Pakistan by Salima Hashmi p.158-161

1997 50 Years of Visual Arts in Pakistan   Salima Hashmi and Quddus Mirza

Selected 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 issue p 136-137

2007 Bodies Cast Auj Khan TFT vol XIX May4-10 p20-21

2006 Art India, April by Shilpa Phadke

2006 Amalgam of cultures Hindustan Times, Gitanjali Dang March 24

2006 Time Out Mumbai, March 10-23 Reviews p 42

2006 Culture crosses borders Mumbai Mirror March1 p.42

2006 Exquisite Pain Aasim Akhtar The News on Sunday March19

2005 Impassioned Voices: Art as Social Commentary in Pakistan Atteqa Ali, Art Asia Pasific September issue

2005 ArtLab- Jagath Weerasingh (in Senelese)

2004 Spirit in Chains Niilofur Farrukh Newsline June p124-125

2004 Expressions of life Mohsin S Jaffri The News May 9 p.30

2004 Sieving things through Salwat Ali,Dawn Gallery, May 8 p.5

2004 Art Material Quddus Mirza The News, March 21 p.28

2004 Bodying Forth Salima Hashmi Art India, vol. Ix issue iii, p106-107

2004 Art India vol ix issue p.60, 73

2003 Exploring the complex Marjorie Hussain, Dawn Gallery Dec.20

2002 Weaving Dreams Ayesha Khan, Dawn Gallery p.7

2002 Craft in Art – Quddus Mirza The News July 21 p.28

2002 Hair and there Quddus Mirza The News July 14 p.28

2002 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

Over the last 17 years, Naiza has been working and living in Karachi, Pakistan.  She is one of the founding members of the Vasl Artists’ Collective (part of the Triangle Network) and is currently the Co-coordinator of this artists-led platform www.vaslart.org

Since 1991, she has been part of the Fine Art Faculty of the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture.