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Bio

Asad Ali Zulfiqar (b. 1995, Karachi) is a new media artist with an interdisciplinary practice that spans text, image, sound, installation and performance, exploring ways of finding compassion for ourselves and others as a response to the prevailing political climate. Their work revolves around belonging (or not belonging), to our communities, lineages, built and natural environments, languages, mazhab and khud/a. Their writing praxes seek to uphold the transient nature of identity and open up time.

With multiple international grant-awards under their belt, their works have been showcased in Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Switzerland, Myanmar, the US and the UK. They hold a BA in Communication & Design from the Habib University.

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Publications

2023

Notes from 2020, in Queers in Quarantine: Anthology. Mohini Books, Norway

Thoughts that Keep Sakina Sleepless, in kal FICTIONS (Coming soon)

2022

notes from 2020, and recipe for a love potion, in Queerabad’s Tilt, India

 

2021

Asad Ali Zulfiqar, in Roots & Routes magazine, UK

The Dharma of Rooj Hussain, in Mil Ke Chai Art Paper, UK

Come Back Down to Earth, comissioned by Kurachee, Pakistan

2018

Gender Mobility, on Who Gets to Talk About Whom, Pakistan

everyone, in Queerabad's Tilt, India

2017

Unappetizing Bodies, in Queerabad's Tilt, India

Exhibitions

2023

Mindscape, CFAW, Karachi

AiiA Festival 2023, Geneva

The Looking Glass, LUMS, Lahore

इंqueerलाब, Queer Feminist Collective, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Dehli, India

2022 

Reading Room, AAN Art Space & Museum x Kurachee, Karachi 

Zine Scene Festival, CFAW, Karachi

2021

Come Back Down To Earth, Library collection at Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE

Zinefest Koeln 2021Germany

Trans Futures Archive, After Party Collective, ISCP, Brooklyn, NY

Kurachee at COMO Museum, Lahore

2017

Rang Saazi, Lahore Music Meet, Alhamara Arts Council, Lahore

2016

The HU Experience, Habib University, Karachi

2015

Karachiscape, Habib University, Karachi

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