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Pakistan Art 11: all set to conquer Dubai
 Huma Mulji went from Karachi to Lahore for six months on a teaching assignment and has been there for the last four years now. She is teaching fine art and sculpture at the Beaconhouse National University. Sculpture was the subject that she had specialised in when she graduated from the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi, in 1995.....
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FARIDA BATOOL
Syeda Farida Batool is both an artist and art historian. She is assistant professor at the National College of Arts, Lahore, her alma mater, where she teaches art history, a subject she studied along with theory and research in art from the College of Fine Arts in New South Wales for her Master’s. She has conducted several community-based projects in Bangladesh and India besides Pakistan....
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NAIZA KHAN
Soft-spoken and indefatigable, Naiza Khan has an unusual entry to display at Art Dubai fair. Christened The Crossing, it is a full-size boat with galvanised steel armour pieces placed on it. She shows me a number of small paintings that she worked on as she was trying to find and evolve the installation. She might even take them with her,.....
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ALI RAZA
 Ali Raza holds a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts from the NCA and a Master’s from the University of Minnesota. He has been in the US since 1998. He did a year-long stint with the Beaconhouse University, Lahore, where he taught painting, which is what he is doing as an assistant professor at the Appalachian State University in Boone....
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Sophie Ernst
Sophie Ernst, who grew up in the Netherlands, was awarded the prestigious Unesco Aschberg Bursary for her work. Ernst uses video to explore themes of belonging, displacement and cultural relativity in her work. She has won appreciation for her work in Europe, as also in Pakistan and India......
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IMRAN QURESHI SBorn
in Hyderabad, Sindh, Imran Qureshi lives and works in Lahore, where he studied
and specialised in miniature painting at the National College of Arts. He
teaches the subject in his....
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RASHID RANA
 Rashid Rana heads the fine arts department at the Beaconhouse National University, Lahore. He has participated in a large number of solos and group shows, both at home and abroad. He claims that one of his paintings, auctioned last September at Christie’s, got him the highest price paid to any Pakistani artist till then. The figure was in later months surpassed.....
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FAIZA BUTT
 Faiza Butt left her native Lahore for London to do her Master’s at Slade School of Art. Her work is highly articulate. Its narration is often based on news photographs of celebrities. She links these with images of everyday characters from ethnic minorities with a view to creating pictures of an ‘awkward utopia’.....
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ANWAR SAEED
 The associate professor at the National College of Arts, the Lahore-based artist is a name to reckon with on the current art scene of Pakistan. He uses Christian, Hindu and Buddhist iconography, has an unusual capacity to grasp unfamiliar imagery to serve his own ends....
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MOHAMMAD ALI TALPUR
 The 1998 NCA graduate who was selected for inclusion in the Best of Discovery exhibition at the inaugural Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair last year, teaches at the National College of Arts. His work has been displayed in the subcontinent and the UK.....
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DURRIYA KAZI
 Durriya Kazi, a seasoned Karachi-based artist, is known for her cheerful interactive public projects where she collaborates with other artists and craftspeople, vehicle decorators and/or cinema painters such as for projects like the Art Caravan, Heart Mahal, Arz-i-Ma’aud, Very Very Sweet Medina, and more recently, W-II - Karachi to Melbourne’....
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Hanging out in paradise
 It was many months ago that I received an e-mail from Salma Tuqan of Art Dubai. Carefully and respectfully worded, it nevertheless conveyed the excitement of this young coordinator of Art Dubai’s Pakistan Pavilion. She was inviting me to curate an exhibition, which, unlike the art fair itself, would be a non-commercial exhibition space......
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Dream destination: Dubai
In his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez creates a character (the father of Colonel Aureliano Buendia) who, before arriving in the location of Macondo, dreams of it as a town made of mirrors....
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