Education
2023 - School For The Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University
PhD in Contemporary Arts
2019-2021 Beaconhouse National University, Lahore
MA Art and Design Studies (MA-ADS) program, Distinction
2014-2018 National College of Arts, Lahore
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), First Division with Distinction
Exhibitions
2026 MINUTIAE, a group exhibition at THIS Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2026 Fragment Index: DA AUSH KU Solo Exhibition at THiS Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2025 The Wrong Biennale, Non-Functional Thoughts (Curated by Ahmed Faizan), Online Pavilion
2025 Wajood-e-Irtika: What Remains After Erasure, Solo exhibition at Audain Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2025 Together at the South Asian Playground, curated by First Draft, Delhi, India
2024 Have you been diagnosed with MFA or PhD? SCA's Graduate Spring Show, Vancouver, Canada
2023 Photographs exhibition at COMO Museum, Lahore, Pakistan
2023 Silent Eyes curated by Khalid Soomro at Full Circle Gallery, Karachi
2023 Once Upon A Time: Reimagining Narratives Through Lens curated by Shehrish
Mustafa and Rabbania Shirjeel at HAAM Gallery, Lahore
2022 Red Light Area: An Exhibition Initiated And Produced by LFAA Community
Circulated and Realised In Collaboration with HAAM Gallery, curated by Awab
Nouman, Lahore
2022 And The Story Goes On… curated by Amna Suheyl, 4-person show at Alhamra
Arts Council in Alhamra Art Gallery, Lahore
2022 The Factory Project, curated by Rameesha Azeem, a Site-Specific Project at
Chawla Industries in The Sunder Industrial State, Lahore
2021 Flower of a Blue Flame, curated by Quddus Mirza, a Group Show at Canvas
Gallery Karachi
2021 Creative Alternatives, Vasl Artist’s Association presents Taza Tareen-13
Resident Artist Show at Full Circle Gallery, Karachi
2021 ArtFest Karachi at Sambara Art Gallery, Karachi
2021 Degree Show of MA Art and Design Studies at Beaconhouse National
University, Lahore
2018 Art Break Group Show at Tasweer Ghar Gallery, Lahore
2018 Annual Artist Residency Exhibition at Tasveer Ghar Gallery, Lahore
2018 Deep Down Inside, a Group Exhibition at Taseer Art Gallery, Lahore
2018 Bad-e-Saba, Season-II, A Grand Annual Exhibition, Karachi
2018 Degree Show at Zahoor-Ul-Akhlaq Gallery, National College of Art, Lahore
2017 Annual Students Exhibition at Zahoor-Ul-Akhlaq Gallery, National College of
Arts, Lahore
2016 UN-CUT – A Group Show Featuring NCA’s Most Promising Students, Lahore
2015 Anti-Narcotics Exhibition held at Zahoor-ul-Akhlaq Gallery, National College
of Arts, Lahore
2014 Young Artist Exhibition at Alhamra Arts Council, Lahore
Teaching Experience
2026 Course designed and taught
Digital Amnesia: Time and Technics (Studio practice and theory) at Beaconhouse National
University, Pakistan
2023 - Teaching Assistant at SCA, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
2021-2023 Visiting Faculty at Beaconhouse National University, Lahore
2018 Hunerkada College of Visual and Performing Arts, Lahore
Art Instructor (Theory and Studio Practice)
Conference
2026 FCAT Graduate Forum, Vancouver
2026 UT Austin Antiquities Action 7th Annual Symposium, Spring 2026
2024 FCAT Undergraduate & Graduate Conference at Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Vancouver, Canada
Residencies
2021 Taaza Tareen 13 Artist in Residence at Vasl Artist Association, Karachi
2018 Annual Artist’s Residency Program at Tasweer Ghar, Lahore
Participation
2025 Oscar Tuazon: What Trees Need — participated and collaborated with artist Oscar Tuazon in the exhibition
at Audain Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2022 Contributed to a Visual Journal Series, A Project by The Gallery MUI, Pennsylvania, US
2021 Ambiance Hotel Call for Art 2.0 work selected for a permanent collection, Karachi, Pakistan
2021 Artdemic.India, a project initiated by Gujral Foundation to Archive Art Produced in Pandemic, India
Scholarship, Grants And Awards
2023- Recipient of multiple competitive scholarships during PhD program
2019-2021 UMISSA Scholarship for MA Art and Design Studies (MA-ADS)
at Beaconhouse National University, Lahore
Artistic Projects and Commissions
2021 EART: A Manifesto of Possibilities, presentation by Rashid Rana, at Manchester International Festival
curated by Alnoor Mitha (Worked as Researcher and Conceptual Development in EART Concept # 3 |
1001 MINDS GLOCAL / an MIF at Dantzic Street, Manchester UK)
2020 Hello X Rashid Rana (Decode the Change) digital cover design by Rashid Rana
in collaboration with Hello magazine Pakistan. (April 2020)
(In research team for Rashid Rana’s studio)
2018 Sindh Museum Hyderabad Renovation Project
(Worked as Assistant)
2017 Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai statue installed in Bhitt Shah, Matiari District, Sindh
(Worked as Assistant Sculptor)
2016 Statue of Wisdom (a boy reading a book) installed in front of central
library, University of Sindh Jamshoro.
(Worked as Assistant Sculptor)
Selected Press and Reviews
2023 Telling Tales of Tomorrow by Qudus Mirza in The News International
2022 Red Light Area by Mariam Waheed in LIBASNOW, Dec 16
2022 The Factory Project Phase II: A Book Published in which writers collaborated
with the artists
2021 Playing with Fire review by Myla Essa published in LIBAS NOW, June 15,
2021
2021 Youth and Art review by Peerzada Salman published June 10, 2021 in Dawn
Newspaper
2021 Creative Alternatives by Nusrat Khawaja Published in The Karachi Collective
2021 Residency: Re-Thinking What We Know by Amra Ali published in
DAWN, April 25, 2021
2019 Tasweer Ghar Artist Residency by Sabeen Ahsan and Maha Minhaj
Published in ArtNow contemporary art of Pakistan Magazine - 2019
2018 11 Art Pieces that Rocked our world from NCA Degree Show by Anum
Lasharie published in 1947 Entertainment and Lifestyle Magazine
2018 Neither a Surprise nor a Provocation by Asim Akhtar published in the
News on Sunday, January 21, 2018