Born in Cleveland, OH, USA, in 1987, he lives and works in Lahore, Pakistan. He received a BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts,
New York, and an MFA in the same eld from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA, USA. His photography, video and new media
artwork has been exhibited across the USA, UK, and South Asia, and he is a recent recipient of the IFTCF Emerging Artists Competition, Milan,
Italy. He has participated on projects such as 100 Years of Alan Turing, a coding collaboration at the University of Salford, Manchester, UK; Rooted / Paivasta, a public art project in the Bagh-e-Jinnah Park, Lahore, and Reading Between the Lines, a site-speci c multimedia exhibition at Gallowgate, Glasgow, UK. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the Fine Art Department at Beaconhouse National University, Lahore, Pakistan.
His works investigate the line between fact and fiction within the representation, looking at the camera as an arti ce. Through collecting items of Pakistani popular culture, clippings from local newspapers, Urdu novels, etc, and then photographing them in the studio, he creates scenes that are reminiscent of an anthropological study. In juxtaposing these still lifes with photographic documentation of the street, the connections between reality and construction are challenged. Displaying the image against both natural and man- made materials melds their surfaces into one, and these new objects become a memorial to a fading past.
Selected exhibitions
2019 The News Gallery, SPACES, Cleveland, OH, USA
2018 Art for Education. Contemporary Artists from Pakistan, Museo Diocesano, Milan, Italy
2018 East Meets West, Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Milan, Italy
2017 At Home, New Residence of the Dutch Ambassador, Islamabad