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Education 

 

Omer Wasim

2013 Master of Arts Critical Studies, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore

2012 Bachelor of Fine Arts Interdisciplinary Sculpture, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, Cum Laude

2011 Coursework in Latin-American Literature and Human Sexuality, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

 

Saira Sheikh

2009 Ed.M. Art and Art Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York

2000 Bachelor of Fine Arts, National College of Arts, Lahore

1995 Bachelor of Arts, Kinnaird College, Lahore

 

Exhibition

 

Solo shows

2017

The Impossibility of Loving a Stone, IVS Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan

Optics of Labour, Koel Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan

 

2016

24.8615 N 067.0099 E, Canvas Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan

 

Group Shows   

2020

Yokohama Triennale ,“Afterglow”curated by Raqs Media Collective

 

2018

Bearing Points, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Karachi ka Manzarnama, t2f, Karachi, Pakistan

Who Gets To Talk about Whom?, Gandhara-Art Space, Karachi, Pakistan

Cultivating Wastelands, Rossi & Rossi, London, England

Sweeping Back the Sea, Aicon Gallery, New York City, U.S.A

 

2017

Karachi Biennale (KB17), Karachi, Pakistan

Taqseem, Koel Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan

Cairo Video Festival, Cairo, Egypt

 

2016

Artist Statement, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea

 

Publications 

2017

“Interchangeability:Sculpture as Drawing, or Vice Versa,” Linear(Im)Possibilities, Drawing Documents

Optics of Labour, collection of essays, with contributions by SeherNaveed and Heba Islam

 

2016

“How We Mark the Land,” Scroll

“1,” ArtNowPakistan

24.8615 N 067.0099 E, exhibition text

 

Work History  

 

Omer Wasim 

2014-Present

Lecturer, Liberal ArtsProgramme, Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi

 

Saira Sheikh

2016

Associate Professor, Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi

Head, Liberal Arts Programme, Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi

 

2013

Assistant Professor, School of Visual Arts and Design, Beaconhouse National University, Lahore

 

2007

Lecturer, Academic Coordinator, School of VisualArts, Beaconhouse National University, Lahore

 

 Workshops, Residencies, Seminars and Conferences Attended

 

Omer Wasim

2013

The Idealand the Real, “Fading: Art before, during, and after the AIDS Epidemic,”The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Saira Sheikh

2014

Seeing Beyond Perceptions, National Security Workshop-16, National Defence, University, Islamabad

 

2012

SVAD/BNU coordinator and author INSPIRE-DISKE policy paper, with the British Council Building a Tolerant Society Together, Fulbright & Humphrey Alumni Conference, Islamabad

 

2011

Selected for Koumaria New Media Art Residency, Medea Electronique, Sparta

 

2009

Conversationsacross Cultures: South-Asian Imaginaries, Columbia University, New York

 

2008

Engaging the Electorate: The Dynamics of Politics and Participation in Albuquerque

 

2006

Conservation of Oil Paintings, Lahore Museum

Khoj Kolkota International Artists’ Workshop, Kolkata

Vasl International Artists’ Residency, Gadani

Omer Wasim & the late Saira Sheikh are visual artists who practice together, and cast a retrospective glance at the present to radically examine and mine contemporary art practices, and recent, albeit superficial, interest of the global west in their region; and also to reconfigure, re-articulate, and disrupt existing and complacent modes of artistic engagement and production. Wasim continues to execute projects that were jointly conceived with Sheikh. Wasim (b. 1988) has a BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture and an MA in Critical Studies from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, Maryland. He has been teaching and practicing in Pakistan, since 2014, and is currently a faculty in the Liberal Arts Programme at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture. Saira Sheikh (1975 – 2017) had a BFA from the National College of Arts (NCA), Lahore, Punjab, and an EdM from Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, New York. She had been teaching and practicing in Karachi, Pakistan, since 2013,and was Associate Professor and Head of the Liberal Arts Programme at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi.

  • Intersections | In Touch Edition 03  | Group Show

    August 15, 2020 - July 15, 2020

  • Speculations On A New World Order  | Curated by Anushka Rajendran

    May 20, 2020 - April 16, 2020

  • Slow – India Art Fair – 2019  | Group Show

    February 3, 2019 - January 31, 2019

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