born in Karachi, Pakistan

lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Education

1991-1994 BFA, Goldsmiths College, London, UK

Exhibitions

2022
BASE / PROGETTI PER L'ARTE, Florence, Italy (SOLO)
Esther Schipper, Paris, France (SOLO)

2021
goeben, Berlin, Germany(SOLO)
Lisson Gallery, East Hampton, NY, USA(SOLO)
Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy(SOLO)

2020
Unrequited Line, Y8 KUNSTRAUM + YOGA, Hamburg, Germany (SOLO)

2019
Things, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, USA (SOLO)

2018
Lisson Gallery, London, UK (SOLO)
n.b.k. façade installation, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)

2017
303 Gallery, New York, NY, USA (SOLO)
Billboard for Edinburgh, Ingleby Gallery (SOLO)

2016
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, USA (SOLO)
On Occasion, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland (SOLO)

2015
Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany (SOLO)
Four Floors, Kunst-Werke Institute, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
Til I Get It Right, Samdani Art Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh (SOLO)

2014
Lisson Gallery, Milan, Italy (SOLO)
Museion, Bolzano, Italy (SOLO)

2013
Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany (SOLO)
Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany (SOLO)

2011
303 Gallery, New York, NY, USA (SOLO)
Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
Project Art Centre, Dublin, Ireland (SOLO)
DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada (SOLO)
Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel (SOLO)

2010
Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami, FL, USA (SOLO)
Lisson Gallery, London, UK (SOLO)

2009
Billboard for Edinburgh, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK (SOLO)
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (SOLO)
303 Gallery, New York, NY, USA (SOLO)
Show, Kunst-Werke Institute, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)

2008
Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples, Italy (SOLO)
Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)

2007
Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain (SOLO)
Kerguehennec, Bignan, France (SOLO)
Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany (SOLO)
Til I Get it Right, Rochester Art Center, New York, NY, USA (SOLO)
Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany (SOLO)

2006
303 Gallery, New York, NY, USA (SOLO)
Lisson Gallery, London, UK (SOLO)
The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada (SOLO)
Swiss Institute, New York, NY, USA (SOLO)
Safn, Reykjavik, Iceland (SOLO)
Safn Reykjavik (with Karin Sander), Reykjavik, Iceland (SOLO)
Elektra House (with Giorgio Sadotti), London, UK (SOLO)

2005
Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (SOLO)
Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy (SOLO)

2004
Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany (SOLO)
Waterline, Art Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland (SOLO)
Waste Paper, Galleri Stefan Anderson, Umea, Sweden (SOLO)

2003
Again, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY, USA (SOLO)
Peel, Portikus, Frankfurt am Maim, Germany (SOLO)

2002
Lisson Gallery, London, UK (SOLO)
X-rummet, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark (SOLO)
Index, Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden (SOLO)
Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy (SOLO)

2001
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK (SOLO)
Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee, WI, USA (SOLO)
Massive Reduction, Peer, Shoreditch Town Hall, London, UK (SOLO)
Matrix 192: 37’ 4”, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, USA (SOLO)

2000
Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy (SOLO)

1999
Casey Kaplan, New York, NY, USA (SOLO)
Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland (SOLO)
Galeria Rafael Ortiz (with Richard Wentworth), Seville, Spain (SOLO)

1998
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
Galerie Carlos Poy (with Richard Wentworth), Barcelona, Spain (SOLO)

1997
Galleria Gianluca Collica, Catania, Italy (SOLO)
City Racing, London, UK (SOLO)
Herzliya Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel (SOLO)
Lisson Gallery, London, UK (SOLO)
Galleria Primo Piano, Rome, Italy (SOLO)

1996
Galleria Primo Piano, Rome, Italy (SOLO)
Tramway Project Room, Glasgow, UK (SOLO)
Anthony Wilkinson Fine Art, London, UK (SOLO)
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY, USA (SOLO)

1995
Science Museum, London, UK (SOLO)


Grants

1997 Philip Morris Scholarship, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2002 Paul Hamlyn Award, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, London, UK
2005 Bremerhaven-Stipendium, Kunst & Nutzen, Bremerhaven, Germany
2007 Preis der Nationalgalerie für Junge Kunst, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
2009 Nam June Paik Art Center Prize, Yongin, South Korea

Collections

Arts Council Collection, London, UK
British Council, London, UK
Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, USA
FRAC Bretagne, Rennes, France
FRAC Champagne, Ardenne, Reims, France
FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France
Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL, USA
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Kunsthalle Bern Collection, Bern, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Middlesbrough, UK
Museoin, Bolzano, Italy
Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris, France
Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Sammlung Zeitgenössische Kunst des Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Berlin, Germany
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
Tate Modern, London, UK
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan
Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, USA