Shrine Empire Gallery » Zoya Siddiqui

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To God shall the Alien Return
Payal Business Center, Surrey
Melancholies of the Migrated
Melancholies of the Migrated
Melancholies of the Migrated
Melancholies of the Migrated
Melancholies of the Migrated
Melancholies of the Migrated
Melancholies of the Migrated
Melancholies of the Migrated
Melancholies of the Migrated
Melancholies of the Migrated
Melancholies of the Migrated
Melancholies of the Migrated
Melancholies of the Migrated
Melancholies of the Migrated
Melancholies of the Migrated
Melancholies of the Migrated
Melancholies of the Migrated
Melancholies of the Migrated
Melancholies of the Migrated
Melancholies of the Migrated
Melancholies of the Migrated
Melancholies of the Migrated
Blind Views
Loop
Personal Shrines

b. 1990
Lahore, Pakistan

Education
2018 MFA in Visual Arts from University of Pennsylvania
2013 BFAin Visual Arts from Beaconhouse National University

Exhibition
2019
A Time for Farewells Curated By Premjish Achari, Prameya Art Foundation, New Delhi
2018
The Edge, group show curated by Yashodhara Dalmia, Bikaner House and Shrine Empire, New Delhi
Bild Build, UPenn MFA Thesis Show at Ice Box, curated by Alex Klein
Double Vision, Incubation series, group show at FJORD gallery, Philadelphia
Solo project booth, India Art Fair, “Loop” with Shrine Empire Gallery, New Delhi
India Art Fair, booth A6 with Shrine Empire Gallery, group exhibit, New Delhi
2017
Promises To Keep, Apexart New York, curated by Rabbya Naseer
Essays in Words and Images, Seraphin Gallery Philadelphia, curated by Kaja Silverman @las, Addams Gallery Philadelphia
2016
Corporeal, Shrine Empire Gallery Delhi, curated by Anushka Rajendran
The Missing One, Dhaka Art Summit, curated by Nada Raza
2015
Points of Convergence, solo show at Rohtas2, Lahore
Borderlines, Theertha Performance Platform, Colombo
Everything Is Embedded In History, group show at the Lahore Literary Festival, Alhamra
Home, group show at Canvas Gallery, Karachi
Geology of a Home, solo project opening for In-Situ, UK at the Brierfield Mill
Open Studio for Triangle Artists’ Workshop
2014
Read/Respond,Taaza Zoya Siddiqui – CV Tareen exhibition for the Vasl Residency in Karachi, Full Circle Gallery
Portraits of Discomfiture, group show at the Taseer Gallery, Lahore
2013
BNU SVAD Thesis show
2011
Red Hot, Young Artist Exhibition, Alhamra Art Council
Young Artist Exhibition, Nairang Gallery
Dialogue 1, Alhamra Art Council

Academic Awards
2018 Lawrence Shprintz MFA Award
2016-2018 Fulbright Scholarship
2016-2018 Asian Cultural Council Award
2013 Gold Medal in the School of Visual Arts, BNU
2013 Distinction in Undergraduate Thesis
2009 Pakistan Top Distinction in A-level Art, Cambridge GCE
2009-2013 Dean’s Honour list

Art Residencies
2018 Delfina residency, KKAF, London, UK (3 months)
2015 Triangle Arts Association Workshop in New York (2 weeks)
2015 In-Situ Artists’ Residency, Brierfield, UK (4 weeks)
2015 Performance Platform, Theertha Artists’ Residency, Colombo (1 week)
2015 Lahore Biennale Foundation grant for Theertha Performance Platform
2014 Vasl Residency in Karachi (5 weeks)
2010 Offscreen Residency in London and Yorkshire (2 weeks)

Art Grants
2018 Khurram Kasim Art Foundation Award for Delfina Residency
2016-2018 Asian Cultural Council Award for an MFA Program
2015 Asian Cultural Council Grant for Triangle Arts Association workshop
2015 Lancashire County Council, Arts Council England and University of Central Lancashire for In-Situ

Artist Talks
2019 Artist guest lecture at University of British Columbia
2019 Talk with Sara Khan (Artist) and Rhys Edwards, Curator, Surrey Art Gallery , Indian Summer Festival, Vancouver
2019 Unmaking History , Curated by Saher Sohail, Natasha Malik and Laila Rahman, Research and Publication Centre, Lahore
2018 Liverpool Biennial; City is a Classroom, Liverpool
2018 Double Vision: Closing + Panel Discussion, Philadelphia
2017 Tea Party at Apexart, performative conversation, New York
2015 Borderlines; Performative Art Practices, at Rohtas, organized by Lahore Biennale Foundation, Lahore
2015 Sarah Singh and Zoya Siddiqui in Conversation, at Asian American Writer’s Workshop NY, collaboration between South Asian Women’s Creative Collective and Triangle Arts Association

Curatorial Projects
2015 Curatorial team for “Everything Is Embedded In History” at the Lahore Literary Festival, with Qudsia Rahim
2015 Co-curated exhibition accompanying White Turban Artist Book Launch, with Ambereen Karamat
2013 Co-curated Faculty Show with Rashid Rana at BNU gallery
2011 Curated and organized Dialogue 1,Alhamra Art Gallery Lahore, showcasing works of 100 emerging artists

Work Experience
2018 YCW Program at Vancouver Biennale
2016-2018 Adjunct Faculty for Video and Photography, UPenn
2015-2016 Research and Development for the Lahore Biennale Foundation
2014-2015 Project Coordinator at White Turban Art Consultancy, with Devi Art Foundation, India
2014 Art Curriculum development for Rabtt
2013-2014 Adjunct Faculty for Art History, BNU
2013 Art Director at Libas International Magazine
2012-2013 Teaching Assistant in MA Art Ed Program, BNU
2012 Art Curriculum development and teaching at Rabtt
2012-2014 Art Director for the History Project (www.thehistory-project.org)

Workshop
2013 Conducted workshop on Contemporary Art Practices, Lahore University of Management Sciences
2013 Conducted student workshops for History Project in Mumbai

Zoya Siddiqui (b.1990) is a visual artist based between Lahore and Vancouver, working primarily in video, performance, installation and photography. She has been part of residencies at the Vasl Artists’ Collective Karachi, Delfina Foundation London, Theertha Performance Platform in Colombo, In- Situ UK, and is an alumnus of the Triangle Arts Association. Siddiqui has shown her works internationally on platforms such as the Dhaka Art Summit and Lahore Literary Festival, and in cities such as New York, New Delhi, Philadelphia, Lahore, Karachi and Brierfield. Her recent exhibitions include ‘A Time for Farewells’ Curated By Premjish Achari with Prameya Art Foundation;‘The Edge’ at Bikaner House, New Delhi and ‘Parentheses’ at David Nolan in New York.

Through varying routes, Siddiqui’s practice seeks to understand the tensions between nearness-farness, insider-outsider, strangerhood-intimacy or public-private. A common denominator between all works is performance; anchored in her voice, shown explicitly through her body, implied in the curation of events etc. She has a sustained interest in the implied eye of the technology used to film or photograph.