Born in 1981 in Karachi, Mahreen Zuberi completed her Bachelor’s degree Fine Arts from the National College of Art, Lahore, with a specialization in miniature painting. Applying the traditional miniature technique to contemporary subjects, she confronts questions of gender, intimacy and the balance of power in interactions through meticulously drawn and structured paintings. By signifying imbalances of relationships through inanimate objects,...
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Born in 1981 in Karachi, Mahreen Zuberi completed her Bachelor’s degree Fine Arts from the National College of Art, Lahore, with a specialization in miniature painting. Applying the traditional miniature technique to contemporary subjects, she confronts questions of gender, intimacy and the balance of power in interactions through meticulously drawn and structured paintings. By signifying imbalances of relationships through inanimate objects, and investing meaning in them Zuberi serves to underline the violence inherent in relationships, amongst humans or of humans with their environments.
Zuberi has exhibited widely including at ‘Resemble Reassemble’ at the Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, in 2010; ‘Invisible Cities’ at Aicon Gallery, New York, in 2010; ‘Hanging Fire’ at the Asia Society Museum, New York, in 2009; ‘Associated Metaphors’ at IVSAA Gallery, Karachi, in 2008; at the National Gallery of Art, Islamabad, in 2007; ‘A Thousand and One Days’ at Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii, in 2005; ‘Miniatures Contemporaines Du Pakistan’, France, in 2005; ‘Re-inventing Narratives’ at La Galerie Mohamed-el-Fassi, Morocco, in 2005; and ‘Contemporary Miniature Paintings from Pakistan’ at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan, in 2004. She has also participated in the South Asian Artists Camp, India, in 2010; the Krishnakariti Art Festival, India, in 2008; the International Artist Workshop, Jordan, in 2007; and the VASL International Workshop, Gadani, in 2006.
Zuberi’s work features in the collections of the Queensland Art Gallery, Australia; Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan; and the Devi Art Foundation, India. She is the Fine Arts Coordinator at Karachi University’s Department of Visual Studies.
The artist lives and works in Karachi.
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Born
1981
Karachi
Education
2000-03 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Miniature Painting), National College of Art (NCA), Lahore
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008 'Open Wide', Rohtas Art Gallery,...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008 'Open Wide', Rohtas Art Gallery, Islamabad
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Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 'Reprise', Aicon Gallery, New York
2010 'Green Patrol', Canvas Gallery, Karachi
2010 'The Karachi Miniature', Poppy seed Gallery, Karachi
2010 'Being There', Koel Gallery, Karachi
2010 'Invisible Cities', Aicon Gallery, New York
2009 'Edge', Rohtas 2, Lahore
2008 '6 Degrees of Separation', VM Art Gallery, Karachi
2008 'Associated Metaphors', IVSAA Gallery, Karachi
2007 National Gallery of Art, Islamabad
2006 Canvas Gallery, Karachi
2005 'A Thousand and One Days', Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii
2005 'Re-inventing Narratives', La galerie Mohamed-el-Fassi, Morocco
2005 'Taaza Tareen', VM Art Gallery, Karachi
2005 'Voices', World Bank Office, Islamabad
2005 Momart Gallery, Karachi
2005 'Re-inventing Narratives', La galerie Mohamed el Fassi Rabat, Morocco
2004 'Modern Miniatures', Khass Art Gallery, Islamabad
2004 'Creases', Rohtas 2, Lahore
2004 'Interpretations', Rohtas Gallery, Islamabad
2004 'Extensions', Canvas Gallery, Karachi
2003 'Vacant/Occupied', National College of Arts (NCA), Lahore
2003 'Shot to Edit', Zahoor ul Aklaq Gallery, National College of Arts (NCA), Lahore
2002 'DRAWN', Royatt Gallery, Lahore
Participations
2011-12 'Contemporary Miniatures', Traveling Exhibition from Queensland Art Gallery Collection at Redcliffe City Art Gallery; Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum; Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery; Artspace Mackay; Logan Art Gallery; Mundubbera Regional Art Gallery; Perc Tucker Regional Gallery; Gympie Regional Gallery; Outback Regional Gallery, Winton, Australia
2010 'Resemble Reassemble', Devi-Art Foundation, New Delhi
2009 'Hanging Fire', Asia Society Museum, New York
2008 Krishnakariti Art Festival, India
2008 'Vernisage of Paintings', Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, Karachi
2007 International Artist Workshop, Jordan
2006 Vasl International Workshop, Gadani
2005 'Miniatures Contemporaines Du Pakistan', France
2004 'Contemporary Miniature Paintings from Pakistan', Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
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