Shrine Empire Gallery

Bio CV Exhibitions

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Education

2012-2013 Master of Arts Critical Studies, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)
2008-2012 Bachelor of Fine Arts Interdisciplinary Sculpture, Concentration Video and Film Arts Cum Laude, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)
2009-2011 Coursework in Latin-American Literature and Human Sexuality, Johns Hopkins University

Exhibition

Individual Solo shows

2018 As the Light Turns, Koel Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan

Group shows

2020
Seismic Movements, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh
India Art Fair, Shrine Empire, New Delhi

2019
The Quantum City: Territory, Space, Place, International Public Art Festival, Karachi Port Trust, Karachi, Pakistan
A Time for Farewells, Shrine Empire, New Delhi, India
Is it Possible to Live Outside of Language?, IVS Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
A Time for Farewells, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Pennsylvania, USA
Karachi Biennale, Karachi, Pakistan

2018
From the Hills to the Sea, Gandhara Art Space, Karachi
Karachi kaManzarnama, t2f, Karachi, Pakistan

2017
Karachi Biennale (KB17), Karachi, Pakistan
We Ate the Birds, Koel Gallery, Karachi

2016
About Time, National Academy of Performing Arts, Karachi
The 70’s: Pakistan’s Radioactive Decade, AminGulgee Gallery, Karachi
In My Own Corner, Satrang Art Gallery, Islamabad

2015
The Science of Taking a Walk, Gandhara Art Space, Karachi
Speaking in Tongues, Karachi Literature Festival, Karachi

2014
Dreamscape, AminGulgee Gallery, Karachi

2012
Senior Thesis Exhibition, MICA, Baltimore
Uncommon Place, In/Flux, Baltimore

2011
Road Block, Area 405, Baltimore

2010
In Between Before and After, Area 405, Baltimore
In This, I Believe, Brown Centre, Baltimore

Collaborative, with Saira Sheikh

Solo shows (as an artist duo)

2020
Yokohama Triennale 2020 “Afterglow” curated by RAQs

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

2019 Slow, Shrine Empire Gallery Booth, India Art Fair

The Quantum City: Territory, Space, Place, International Public Art Festival, Karachi Port Trust, Karachi, Pakistan
Nature \ nature, KunstraumNiederoesterreich, Vienna, Austria

2018
Bearing Points, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Karachi kaManzarnama, 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

Work Experience

2014-Present Assistant Professor, Liberal Arts Programme
Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi, Pakistan
2019 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Fine Art
National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan

Research and Publications

Volumes Edited
2017-Present Hybrid, Editorial Board
2016 Cityscapes: Perspectives on the Urban Environment
Co-edited with Gemma Sharpe and Zahra Malkani

Individual
2018 As the Light Turns
“Notes on the Artist’s Mind,” ArtNow Pakistan
2017 “Excerpts from a Statement by an Artist,” ArtNow Pakistan
2016 “18.08.2016,” ArtNow Pakistan “Projections of Transformity,” Art Now Pakistan
2015 “Different Strokes: On Race and Identity in Amrita Sher-Gil’s Paintings,” Herald
“Musings on, or Theorising Fragments in Sonya Schönberger,” Catalogue essay for Tracing the Void, IVS Gallery
2014 “‘Philostorgy, Now Obscure’,” Art Now Pakistan

Collaborative, with Saira Sheikh

2017 “Interchangeability: Sculpture as Drawing, or Vice Versa,” Linear (Im) Possibilities, DrawingDocuments
Optics of Labour, collection of essays, with contributions by Seher Naveed and Heba Islam
2016 “How We Mark the Land,” Scroll
“1,” Ar Now Pakistan
24.8615 N 067.0099 E, exhibition text

Awards and Honors

2012-2013 International Graduate Fellowship
MICA Grant for Graduate Study
2011-2012 Sculpture Department Recognition Award
2009-2012 Distinguished International Student Award
2009 Leadership Recognition Award
2008-2012 Academic Excellence Scholarship
C.V. Star Scholarship
Dean’s List

Conferences, Workshops, Seminars & Residencies

2019 Listening for the Future, A New North & South Symposium in association with Colombo Art Biennale, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Forest Curriculum, Bangkok, Thailand (partially attended)
2018 Tate Research Centre: Asia | Karachi Seminar Workshop, Murree Museum Artist Residency
2017 Vasl Faculty Mentoring Workshop
2015 Vasl Faculty Mentoring Workshop
2013 The Ideal and the Real, “Fading: Art before, during, and after the AIDS Epidemic,” The Walters Art Museum,, Baltimore

Curatorial Projects

2019 Contemporary Anxieties: The Body and Its Politics, co-curated with Seher Naveed, IVS Gallery, Karachi,
Pakistan

Omer Wasim (b. 1988, Karachi) is an intermedial artist whose practice queers space, subverting the frames of development and progress that shape human relationships to cities and nature. His work bears witness to the relentless erasure, violence, and destruction of our times by staying with more-than-human bodies.

His solo and collaborative projects have been shown at Jameel Arts Centre; Colomboscope; sonsbeek20→24: force times distance—on labour and its sonic ecologies; Yokohama Triennale; Dhaka Art Summit; Karachi Biennale; Kunstraum Niederoesterreich; Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College; International Public Art Festival; and Cairo Video Festival among others.

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