Selected Art Exhibitions Reviews

The Rewards and Pitfalls of Survey Exhibitions: Review for Manzar: Art and Architecture of Pakistan From 1940s to Today presented by the future Art Mil Museum at The National Museum of Qatar, Doha. Published in The Karachi Collective.

A Both Sides Approach to Orientalism: Review for the exhibition Seeing Is Believing: The Art and Influence of Gérôme at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha. Published in Hyperallergic.

Exploring Sexuality and Myth Through Fiber:  Review for Phenomenal Nature, Mrinalini Mukherjee, at the MET Breuer. Published in Hyperallergic.

Kinetic Painting — Carolee Schneemann at MoMA PS1: Review for Schneemann’s retrospective. Published in ArtNow.

Selected Book Reviews

The Friendship that Transformed Frida Kahlo, for the book Frida Kahlo’s Month in Paris: A Friendship with Mary Reynolds, edited by Caitlin Haskell, Tamar Kharatishvili, and Alivé Piliado Santana. Published in Hyperallergic.

Andreas Beyer’s Benvenuto Cellini and the Embodiment of the Modern Artist. Published by The Brooklyn Rail.

Words That Betray: I reviewed R. F. Kuang’s fabulous novel Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence — An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators for Dawn News.

Can AI Be Better At Art History Than Us? My review for Computational Formalism: Art History and Machine Learning by Amanda Wasielewski. Published in Hyperallergic.

Redefining Modern Art in the Muslim World. Published in Hyperallergic for Rasheed Araeen’s book Islam and Modernism.

How Big Cats Once Symbolised France’s Colonialist Ambitions. A Review for Myth and Menagerie: Seeing Lions in the Nineteenth Century by Katie Hornstein. Published in Hyperallergic.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Paper

Studio as Mediator: The Geographical Ceramics of Shazia Zuberi. I documented and published my findings about the studio processes that emerge out of South Asian ceramic studios in the Journal of Art and Design Education Pakistan.

Selected Essays

Inside the Wondrous Studios of Three Pakistani Artists. I documented idiosyncratic artists spaces and published my views in Hyperallergic.

One of my favorites is an essay titled A Strange Multiverse of Many Beating Hearts that I wrote for the catalog of Jagah Hai-Is There a Space? | There is a Space!, for the exhibition of the same name, curated by Amin Gulgee. Find it on page 175.

How Are Pakistani Artists Grappling With the Climate Crises? A short essay written for Hyperallergic.

I enjoy books tremendously. Here is an essay I wrote for The Karachi Collective entitled The Brief History of South Asian Book Traditions.

Selected Interviews

I was panelist and moderator at The Arts Council in Karachi where academic and actor Tazeen Hussain and I spoked with one of the most prolific South Asian art critics — Niilofur Farrukh — and her publications, contemporary art, and publishing. The transcript can be found here. Check out the full interview video here.

I interviewed Misha Japanwala about her work and the idea of “our bodies as vessels” for The Karachi Collective.

Studio: Fabric and the Contemporary Woman: I documented Mariam Agha’s fantastic fabric and textile art studio in Karachi and wrote about it for Dawn News.

Curating Art for a Glocal Foodscape. I interviewed Waheeda Baloch, curator of Karachi Biennale 2024, for The Karachi Collective.

For a broader range and more samples of my work, please visit here.