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.