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Tazeen Qayyum is a contemporary miniature painter who received her BFA in Visual Arts the National College of Arts Lahore, Pakistan in 1996. Her work has been shown internationally in both solo and group exhibitions, some of which include ‘Urban Myths & Modern Fables’, University of Sydney, Australia and UTSC, Toronto, ‘A Thousand and One Days: The Art of Pakistani Women Miniaturists’ at the Academy of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii, ‘JAALA Exhibition at...
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Tazeen Qayyum is a contemporary miniature painter who received her BFA in Visual Arts the National College of Arts Lahore, Pakistan in 1996. Her work has been shown internationally in both solo and group exhibitions, some of which include ‘Urban Myths & Modern Fables’, University of Sydney, Australia and UTSC, Toronto, ‘A Thousand and One Days: The Art of Pakistani Women Miniaturists’ at the Academy of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii, ‘JAALA Exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Japan, ‘Negotiating Borders’ Miniature Paintings at Katmandu, Nepal, ‘Homecoming’, at the National Gallery of Pakistan and ‘CodeLive Metro’ at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.
She has created collaborative performances including ‘Double Date’ in 2006-07 produced by SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre), Toronto and AKA Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada, and ‘A Feast in Exile’ in 2009 produced by VASL Artists’ Collective.
Qayyum’s work was included in the 10th Asian Biennale, Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2002 and 2nd Painting Biennale, Tehran, in 2002. Qayyum was awarded a UNESCO bursary in 2000 to work and exhibit in Vienna. In 1997 she co-founded ‘Offset Portfolio Centre’, a resource centre and gallery for artists in Pakistan.
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Born
1974
Education
1996 Bachelors Degree, Fine Arts, National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan(majors in Indian Miniature Painting)
2000 3 month, Artist’s Residency, Federal Chancellery of Austria & UNESCO-ASHBERG Bursaries for Artists, Vienna, Austria
2013 3 month, Artists-in-Residence, Summer 2013, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga
2014 2 week residency at Parramatta Artist Studio, Sydney, Ausralia
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015 ‘Khara Dupatta’, commissioned...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015 ‘Khara Dupatta’, commissioned installation at Bradley Museum Mississauga, Canada
2015 ‘(IN)SURGE(NT)’, curated by Zarmeene Shah, Canvas Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
2013 ‘A Holding Pattern’, co-curated by Lee Petrie and Stuart Keeler, Toronto Pearson Airport, Canada
2012 ‘Viewer Discretion is Advised’ Ross Creek Centre for the Arts, Canning , Nova Scotia
2012 ‘Coule dans les veines (flows in the veins)’, curated by Stuart Keeler, XIT-RM Mississauga Art Gallery, Canada
2011 ‘Its Complicated’ , Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Canada
2009 ‘Viewer Discretion is Advised -new works by Tazeen Qayyum’, Gandhara Art Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
2001 ‘Woven Narratives: New Miniatures’, Gallery Rohtas II, Lahore, Pakistan
2000 ‘Contemporary Miniatures’, Gallery Jutner, Vienna, Austria
Select Group Exhibitions
2015 ‘Beyond Measure: Domesticating Distance’, curated by Ambereen Siddiqui, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Canada
2015 ‘Border Cultures: Part Three (Security, Surveillance)’ curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Art Gallery of Windsor, Canada
2014 ‘ Arrival/Revival’ curated by Abdullah Sayed, Parramata Artist Studio, Sydney, Australia
2013 ‘Info Bomb:The Subcontinent’ A project with Other Asias, Aam Awaam and SAVAC, Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada
2013 ‘Info Bomb:The Subcontinent’ A project with Other Asias, Aam Awaam and SAVAC, Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada
2011 ‘The Pill’ curated by Avni Doshi, Latitude 28 Gallery, Delhi, India
2010 ‘The Rising Tide: New Directions in Art from Pakistan 1990 -2010’ curated by Naiza Khan, Mohatta Palace Museum, Karachi, Pakistan
2010 ‘Off the Wall: De-Framing Contemporary Miniature Painting ‘, curated by Atteqa Ali, Twelve Gates Art Gallery, Philadelphia, U.S.A
2010 Its a Distaster’, curated by Anthea Foyer, CodeLive exhibition at the 2010 Winter Olympics, Vancouver
2010 ‘A Delicate Point; Images from a South Asian Diaspora’, OSilas Gallery, Concordia College, NY, curated by Priyanka Mathew and Patricia Miranda
2009 ‘Bazgasht: Traditional Methods and Modern Practices’, curated by Ali Adil Khan with Asma Arshad Mahmood and Rob Freeman, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Canada
2008 ‘Conversations across cultures, South Asian Imaginaries, curated by Maurizio Pellegrin and Razia Sadik, Macy Gallery, Columbia University, New York
2008 ‘The Human Dichotomy’, Aicon Gallery, Palo Alto, U.S.A
2008 ShContemporary08, Shanghai International Art Fair, Aicon Gallery, Shanghai Exhibition Center
2008 HKArt08, Hong Kong International Art Fair, Gandhara Art Gallery, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Center
2008&2007 ‘Urban Myths & Modern Fables’, curated by Haema Sivanesan, University of Technology, Sydney and 24Hr Art, Darwin, Australia and Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada
2007 ‘Never Promised you a Rose Garden: Art of Pakistan’, private collection of Brigitte Neubacher, Palais Palffy, Vienna, Austria
2007 ‘Homecoming’, curated by Atteqa Ali, National Gallery of Pakistan, Islamabad
2007 ‘Dialogue with Tradition’, curated by M. Imran Quraishi, National Gallery of Pakistan, Islamabad
2006 ‘Contemporary Miniatures: Between Two Worlds’, Croweaters Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan
2006 ‘Gendering Detail, Contemporary Miniature Paintings’, curated by Kristy Phillips, Art Square Gallery and SAGA (South Asian Gallery of Art) Toronto, Canada
2005 ‘Ongoing Dialogue’, Foresight Art Center, Amman, Jordon
2004 ‘JALA- Japan Afro-Asian Latin American Exchange Exhibition’, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Japan
2003 ‘Bolly>Lolly>Holly>Tolly’ a SAVAC member exhibition, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
2003 43rd Suzzara Prize 2003-‘Spirit and Body; between tradition and cybernetics’, curated by Enrico Mascelloni , Padova, Italy
2003 ‘Negotiating Borders’ Miniature Paintings, curated by Salima Hashmi, Siddhartha Art Gallery, Kathmandu, Nepal.
2002 2nd Painting Biennale, Saba Cultural and Artistic Center, Tehran, Iran
2002 Miniatures, Croweaters Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan
2002 10th Asian Biennale, Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2000 Contemporary Miniature Paintings, Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
2000 Contemporary Miniatures, Canvas Art Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
1999 Miniature Paintings, Offset Portfolio Centre, Islamabad, Pakistan
1996 ‘Small Treasures of a Lifetime’ Degree Show, National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan
Two and Three Person Exhibitions
2012 ‘A Homespun Web: Heather Goodchild, Noelle Hamlyn and Tazeen Qayyum, curated by Cole Swanson, Living Arts Centre, Mississauga, Canada
2011 ‘Veiled: Andrew McPhail, Grace Ndiritu and Tazeen Qayyum’,curated by Sarah Quinton, Textile Museum of Canada.
2009 ‘Failing States: recent works by Tazeen Qayyum and Adeela Suleman’, Aicon Gallery, London , UK
2008 ‘Farida Batool, Tazeen Qayyum, and Adeela Suleman’, Aicon Gallery, curated by Priyanka Mathews, New York, U.S.A.
2008 ‘Elusive Realities’ recent works by Tazeen Qayyum and Sumaira Tazeen, Chawkandi Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
2005 ‘Miniatures’ works by Tazeen Qayyum and Sheherbano Qazalbash, Canvas Art Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
Performance Projects
2015 ‘Do not know who we are where we go’, drawing performance, Possible Worlds, curated by Shannon Anderson , at The Oakville Hospital, Canada
2014 ‘ByOb:Bring Your Own Bollywood’ collaborative performance and photo-based project, at Parramasala, Parramatta, Sydney, Australia
2014 ‘Do not know who we are where we go’, a drawing performance, The 905 Road Show: A Creativity Cabaret, at Sheridan College, Davis Campus, Toronto, Canada
2013 ‘Lost in Desires’ Drawing Performance, as part of the exhibition ‘Info Bomb:The Subcontinent by SAVAC, Nuit Blanche, Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada
2013 ‘ByOb:Bring Your Own Bollywood’ collaborative performance and photo-based project, Blackwood Gallery, at Celebration Squate, Mississauga, Canada
2012 ‘Do not know who we are where we go’, a drawing performance at Mississauga Art Gallery, Canada
2012 ‘Threading Encounters’, The Door to Door exhibition series, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto, Mississauga campus, Canada
2009 Directed ‘A Feast in Exile’ a collaborative inter-disciplinary performance project, Alliance de Francaise Karachi, produced by Vasl Artists’ Collective and Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Pakistan
2007&2006 Directed and Coordinated ‘Double Date’, a collaborative inter-disciplinary performance project, AKA Gallery, Saskatoon and SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Center), Lennox Contemporary Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2003 Directed and Coordinated ‘Lady Excusing her Love Bites as Cat Scratches’, collaborative performance artwork, produced by SAVAC, Canada
Honours and Awards
2016 Excellence in Visual Art award 2016, by the Canadian Community Arts...
2016 Excellence in Visual Art award 2016, by the Canadian Community Arts Initiative.
2014 Nominated for K.M. Hunter Award, Canada
2013 Nominated for Jameel Art Prize
2013& 2011 Project Grant, mid-career artist, Ontario Arts Council, Canada
2012-2008 Paintings featured at the Christie’s and the Sothbey’s South Asian Modern & Contemporary Art auction in London and New York
2008&2006 Project Grant for emerging artists, Toronto Arts Council, Canada
2006 Access and Career Development Grant, Ontario Arts Council, Canada
2000 Awarded UNESCO-ASHBERG Bursaries for Artists, for a three-month residency in Vienna, Austria
1997 Pioneer member, The Offset Portfolio Centre- a resource centre which maintaind a database on the works of artists from Pakistan. Organized seven group and eight solo exhibitions of various artists at The Offset Portfolio Centre.
1999 Teaching, Art of Miniature Painting
1996 Award of Excellence, performance, National College of Arts, Lahore
1992-1996 Three Gold Medals for puppet making and performance, by The Puppeteers NCA, Pakistan
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