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    Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai
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  • Hazaar Zarre Ret aur Roshni ka gumaan, Light and Its Illusion on a Thousand Grains of Sand
  • Hafez aur ek nabina Ashaar, Hafez, and a Blind Verse
  • Darmiyana Fasla, Interim Distance
  • Dasht-o Sehra, The Field and the Desert
  • Taghabi Anar
  • Sunhara Bagh, Gilded Garden
  • Gaanth, Knot
  • Sabz-o Sunhara
  • Nashtar Manind Alfaz, Words like Blades
  • Ek Sitaare ki Gawaahi, The Testimony of a Star
  • Untitled, 07.03.2020 (from the Blood Book)
  • Untitled, 06.04.2020 (from the Blood Book)
  • Dil Ki Baat, 04.03.2020 (from the Blood Book)
  • Shahkaar E Zan, 20.02.2020 (from the Blood Book)
  • Lal Ded aur Taryaak ka Qissah, 06.03.2020 (from the Blood Book)
  • Chashm-e-Zan, 09.05.2020 (from the Blood Book)
  • Alif se Anaar, 06.03.2020 (from the blood book)
  • Takhti from Kabul, 10.08.2020 (from the Blood Book)
  • Nabina Shayar, 10.05.2020 (from the Blood Book)
  • Haya, 10.08.2020 (from the Blood Book)
  • Paanch Patti Ka Ghulab Aur Mumtaz Mahal, 11.08.2020 (from the Blood Book)
  • Ghilaaf, 08.06.2020 (from the Blood Book)
  • Alif Se Anaar, 10.05.2020 (from the Blood Book)
  • A Room of One’s Own, 05.03.2020 (from the Blood Book)
  • 47 days, 08.06.2020 (from the Blood Book)

Education

2013 Masters in Fine Arts, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
2011 Bachelors of Fine Arts, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh
Selected Solo Exhibitions

2021   Nafas (Isolation Diaries), Blueprint12, New Delhi

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021   
REHANG – Anant Art Gallery, Delhi  
Of Liminal Beings and Other Spaces, Emami Art, Kolkata   
Head in the Clouds, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai

2020   
Seeds are being Sown, Shrine Empire Gallery, New Delhi

19/20   
Out of your shadow, Gallery Espace and Blueprint12, New Delhi
Residencies

2019   
1ShanthiRoad Studio Gallery, Bangalore

Awards and Grants

2020   
“Five Million Incidents” project grant supported by Goethe Institute and Raqs Media Collective

2019   
INLAKS Fine Art Award

Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai has graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts (2011) from Aligarh Muslim University and later pursued a Masters in Fine Arts from Jamia Millia Islamia (2013). Working with a range of mediums including painting, printmaking and embroidery on textiles, Ahmadzai’s artistic practice is centered around women and issues concerning them, be it their sexuality or their space in both their domestic and their community. Her knowledge of Urdu, Persian and Arabic allows her to understand the nuances of language, which find their way into her work.

Her works are mostly autobiographical and stem from her personal experiences of looking at marginalized communities around her. She is the recipient of the INLAKS Fine Art Award in 2019, which culminated with a two-month residency and a solo presentation at 1 Shanthi Road, Bangalore (2019). She has participated in ‘Out of your shadow’, a group show of six women artists from the Indian sub-continent at Gallery Espace, New Delhi (2019-20) as well exhibited at The India Art Fair (2019 & 2020) and the Delhi Contemporary Art Week (2019). Much more recently, she has just concluded a residency at The Piramal Arts Foundation, Mumbai and working on 5 million Incidents project offered by Goethe Institute, Max Muller Bhavan, Delhi.

  • Forestial Flock  | Curated by Adwait Singh

    October 1, 2022 - August 26, 2022

  • PRAF presents: Seeds are being Sown  | Curated by Shaunak Mahbubani | Art Scribes Awardee 2019-20

    October 24, 2020 - September 11, 2020

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