User:Abdullah Qureshi

Abdullah Qureshi (born 1987) is a Queer Muslim Pakistani cis-male artist, social activist, curator, educator, and cultural producer who utilizes paint, watercolor, film, and faceless depictions of his male friends to capture his personal histories, trauma, and childhood memories surrounding his identity as a Queer Muslim Pakistani man.

Background
Qureshi was born in Lahore, Pakistan. He earned a bachelor of arts with honors and a master of art in Fine Art at the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. In 2017, Qureshi completed his Doctor of Arts by at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland. In 2019, Qureshi was a visiting graduate student at the Centre for Feminist Research in York University in Toronto, Canada.

Qureshi currently lives in Helsinki, Finland.

After completing his academic degrees in London, Qureshi returned to Pakistan where his art work began to address his intersectional identities between Queer, Pakistani, and Muslim. In Pakistan, Qureshi co-founded a gallery for artists and designers who were interested in destabilizing institutional boundaries called “39K”.

Notable Art

 * Art Presentations:
 * National Gallery of Art, Islamabad, Pakistan
 * Alhamra Art Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan
 * Rossi & Rossi, London, England
 * Uqbar, Berlin, Germany
 * Twelve Gates Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 * SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, California
 * Solo Exhibitions:
 * Multi-media exhibition titled “Darkrooms: retracing childhood memories”
 * Visual diary titled “The Story of Myself and Some Friends in these Fragments of Daily Loves” presented at the Zahoor Ul Akhlaq Gallery
 * Group Exhibitions:
 * “Sind wir schon da?” curated by Julia Feldmann and Silke Paintinger, Universität für angewandte Kunst, Vienna
 * Short Films:
 * Qureshi’s 2019 experimental short film titled “Journey to the CharBagh”
 * Artistic Co-Advisor:
 * Qureshi and two other advisors advised a show titled “River in an Ocean”