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Portrait of Abdullah Qureshi. Photograph courtesy: Hammas Wali

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Group Exhibition: Skin Stories, curated by Emaan Mahmud, Canvas Gallery, Karachi, June 24 — July 3, 2025. 

Submission of Doctoral Dissertation: Mythological Migrations: Imagining Queer Muslim Utopias — Artistic and Curatorial Strategies of Collaboration, Collective Resistance, and Coalition Building for Preliminary Examination at Aalto University, Espoo (June 2025). 
Awarded Canada Council for the Arts — Research and Create grant: Dostnama: Musafirkhana (Urdu: History of Friends: Traveller House), to research and develop a new body of paintings that re-approach specific Urdu literature and poetry to explore notions of queer kinship and belonging from South Asian Muslim migratory positionalities (December 2024).

Between Flesh and Remembering: On Personal Histories, Queer Intimacies, and Poetic Gestures, 2023 - Present

Slay, 2025, enamel paint on canvas, 152 x 152 cm The jumpsuit he never paid for, 2025, enamel paint on canvas, 122 x 122 cm Venus retrograde madness, 2025, enamel paint on canvas, 152 x 152 cm Nafees is tired, 2024, enamel paint on canvas, 196 x 135 cm Camera on the roof, 2023, enamel paint on canvas, 107 x 137 cm Check Milo, 2023, enamel paint on canvas, 137 x 137 cm He used to play hide and seek with me, 2023, enamel paint on canvas, 84 x 122 cm Dancing during the earthquake, 2023, enamel paint on canvas, 137 x 137 cm I enjoy swimming, 2023, enamel paint on canvas, 84 x 122 cm I like his energy, 2023, gloss paint on canvas, 107 x 137 cm Rocky came to save me, 2023, enamel paint on canvas, 122 x 122 cm
Cut-out Experiments (work-in-progress), 2024 - Present
Abu's Telephone, 2024, enamel paint on canvas and MDF, dimensions variable Abu's Telephone and The Shed, 2024, enamel paint on canvas and MDF, dimensions variable New Constructions I & II, 2024, enamel paint on canvas and MDF, dimensions variable The Boy and The Crows, 2024, enamel paint on canvas and MDF, dimensions variable Cut-out Memories (multiple works), 2024, enamel paint on canvas and MDF, dimensions variable Cut-out Memories (multiple works), 2024, enamel paint on canvas and MDF, dimensions variable
Installation Views: We Were Never Meant to Survive, 2024


We Were Never Meant to Survive, solo exhibition at Vane, Gateshead, 2024. Photographs courtesy: Mark Duffy
Installation Views: No Last Dance, 2024


I Learnt to Have Sex Early, 2024. Site-specific collage using cut-out paintings on the gallery wall. Exhibited at: No Last Dance, curated by Helen Baker and Sue Spark, Newcastle Contemporary Art, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2024. Photographs courtesy: Mark Duffy.