Huma Mulji
(1970)
Can You Take Off Your Shoes Please
“I favour the poetic over the dogmatic, complexity over simplicity.”
- Huma Mulji
Pakistani artist Huma Mulji explores the conflict between tradition and modernity, history and contemporary society through mixed-media sculpture-often featuring taxidermy animals and toys-installations, photographs, drawings, and paintings. Her works, which focus on the themes of displacement, migration, borders and cultural interchange in a...
“I favour the poetic over the dogmatic, complexity over simplicity.”
- Huma Mulji
Pakistani artist Huma Mulji explores the conflict between tradition and modernity, history and contemporary society through mixed-media sculpture-often featuring taxidermy animals and toys-installations, photographs, drawings, and paintings. Her works, which focus on the themes of displacement, migration, borders and cultural interchange in a globalised context, are often imbued with deliberate humour and clever witticism.
Born in Karachi in 1970, Mulji completed her BFA (Sculpture and Printmaking) from the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture in 1995, and MFA (New Media Arts) from TransartInstitut, Berlin, accredited by Donau-UniversitatKrems, Austria, in 2010. She has held solo exhibitions in Mumbai, Lahore and Dubai, and has been part of several group exhibitions in India, Pakistan, UAE, UK, USA, Germany, Italy, and more. In 2012, Mulji’s work was part of London’s Frieze Art Fair and the Hong Kong International Art Fair. She was invited to participate in the Pakistan Pavilion, titled Desperately Seeking Paradise, in the 2008 edition of Art Dubai, and continue to exhibit in the 2009 and 2011 editions as well.
The artist lives in Lahore, and teaches at the School of Visual Arts and Design at Beaconhouse National University.
SUMMARY
Born
1970 Karachi
EDUCATION
2010 MFA, New Media Arts, Transart Institute, Berlin, Accredited by DUK, Krems, Austria
1995 BFA, Sculpture/Printmaking, Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi, Pakistan
1991 BCom, Business Administration, Government College of Commerce and Economics, Karachi, Pakistan
SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Twilight, Project 88, Mumbai, India
2010 Crystal Palace and Other Follies, Rohtas Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan
2009 High Rise, Elementa Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2008 Arabian Delight, Rohtas Gallery, Lahore
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 In the Name of Honour, One Mayfair, London, UK
2013 Extra|Ordinary, Abraaj Group Art Prize Exhibition, Dubai, UAE
2013 Up Above the World: Contemporary South Asian Photography, Aicon Gallery, New York, USA
2013 Salaam Bombay: Beauty and Chaos in the Urban Environment, Twelve Gates Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
2012 Frieze Art Fair, London, presented by Project 88
2012 Hong Kong International Art Fair, presented by Project 88
2012 A Beautiful Life, Creative Hinkley, Hinkley, UK
2012 A Beautiful Life, The Pier-2 Art District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2011 A Beautiful Life, South Hill Park, Bracknell, UK
2011 Studio Dispatches, Art Dubai, UAE
2010 Hong Kong International Art Fair, presented by Project 88
2010 Failure to Yield, ConcentArt, Berlin, Germany
2010 The Rising Tide, Mohatta Palace Museum, Karachi, Pakistan
2010 Reprise, Aicon Gallery, New York, USA
2010 Form and Phenomenon, Project 88, Mumbai, India
2010 As The Land Expands, Al Riwaq Art Space, Adliya, Kingdom of Bahrain
2010 Home and the World, Aicon Gallery, New York, USA
2010 Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Year of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK; anddFotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
2010 The Empire Strikes Back, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2009 Resemble Reassemble, Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi, India
2009 Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan, Asia Society Museum, New York, USA
2009 Half-Life, Zahoor-ul-Akhlaq Gallery, NCA, Lahore, Pakistan
2009 Art Dubai 2009, presented by Galerie 88, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2009 Shanakht Project, The Arts Council, Karachi, Pakistan
2009 High Rise, Elementa Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2008 6 Degrees of Separation: Chaos or Congruence, Anant Gallery, New Delhi, India
2008 Farewell to Post Colonialism, Third Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, China
2008 Desperately Seeking Paradise, Pakistan Pavilion, Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE
2007 Take Away, Zahoor-ul-Akhlaque Gallery, National College of Art, Lahore
2007 Outside the Cube, National Art Gallery, Islamabad, Pakistan
2007 Love, National Art Gallery, Islamabad, Pakistan
2007 Moving Ahead: Sculpture in Pakistan, National Art Gallery, Islamabad, Pakistan
2007 Contemporary Art from Pakistan, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, USA
2007 Destination Asia: Non-strict Correspondence, Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Almaty, Kazakhstan
2006 256 Shades, V M Art Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
2006 Sub-Contingent: The Indian Subcontinent in Contemporary Art, FondazionneSandretto Re Rauburg, Torino, Italy
2006 Flights of Fancy, Royaat Gallery, Lahore, Pakista
2005 Something Purple: Media Art from Pakistan, Hong Kong
2005 Scope London, London, UK
2005 Beyond Borders, Art from Pakistan, NGMA, Mumbai, India
2005 Sirf Tum, Rohtas Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan
2004 Along the X Axis, Exhibition of Digital Art, New Delhi, India
HONOURS AND AWARDS
2012 Abraaj Group Art Prize
2001 The Charles Wallace Visiting Fellowship Program
CURATORIAL PROJECTS, WORKSHOPS AND RESIDENCIES
2012 Co-curator, The Divided Self, Video Art from Pakistan, The Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, USA
2008 Facilitator, Vasl Lahore Artists Residency, Lahore, Pakistan
2006 Facilitator, 13 Satellites of Lahore, a public art project with art students
2006 Curatorial Team for National Art Gallery of Modern Art, Islamabad, Pakistan
2006 Co-ordinator, VaslLahore Artists Residency, Lahore, Pakistan
2003 Darmiyaan Artists Workshop, Lahore, Pakistan
2003 UpRiver Loft International Artists Workshop, Lijiang, China
2000-2002 Coordinator, Aar Paar: 1, 11, 111 with Shilpa Gupta (Mumbai); an exchange of art between artists from India and Pakistan, sited in public spaces in Mumbai and Karachi
2001 Artist in Residence, Gasworks Studios, London, UK
2001 Working Group, Vasl International Artists Workshop, Karachi, Pakistan
1999 Co-Curator, Cityscapes: An Exhibition of Contemporary Art, and Recitals of Contemporary Poetry and Literature, Sadequain Gallery, Frere Hall, Karachi, Pakistan
1999 Khoj International Artists Workshop, Modinagar, New Delhi, India
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