Publications

Chapters in Books

Qureshi, A. (2023). A Queer History of Pakistani Art: Anwar Saeed and Other Ways of Love. In O. Kasmani, Pak*stan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere. Duke University Press. 166 – 183.

Qureshi, A. (2022). The Bag of Passports: On Mobility, National Identity, and Migration. In Mira Kallio-Tavin. Borderless: Global Narratives in Art Education. INSEA Publications. 204 – 216.

Qureshi, A. (2018). Queer Migrations: The Case of an LGBT Cafe / Queers without Borders. In A. Suominen & T. Pusa (Eds.), Feminism and Queer in Art Education, pp. 90 – 115, Aalto ARTS Books.


Articles, Peer-reviewed

Qureshi, A. (2020). On Digital Decolonization: a conversation with Morehshin Allahyari. Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 41(1), 87 – 100.

Qureshi, A. (2019). The Bag of Passports: On Mobility, National Identity, and Migration. Research in Arts and Education, 4/2019, 49 – 67.

Qureshi, A. (2015). The Traumatic Past. THAAP Journal, 199 – 203.

Qureshi, A. (2014). The Space of the Mughal Miniature. THAAP Journal, 68 – 76.

Other Publications

Qureshi, A. (2022) Dreaming about Heaven 58. ABJD and Tomorrow We Inherit The Earth. Sming Sming Books, California.

Qureshi, A. (2020). Interview with Mira Kallio-Tavin. Method Pliant.

Qureshi, A. (2020). Notes on Marseille, Manifesta, and the Margins. Impossible Reader, Museum of Impossible Forms, Helsinki.

Qureshi, A. & Anagnostou, D. (2020). Mythological Migrations: On Collaborations, Organization, and Production. Six Years in the Third Space.

Qureshi, A. (2019, December 16). Reflections on Tom’s Men, Cadinot’s Harem, and Zulfikar’s Mussalmaan Musclemen. Mustekala.

Edited Journals

Co-edited with Mira Kallio-Tavin and Marie Andrée Godin. (December 2021).  Critical Artistic Research as Practices of Care. Research in Art and Education.

Co-edited with Natasha Malik. (June 2021). Issue on The Creative Process: Critical Perspectives on Art, Research, and Education from Pakistan and Beyond. Research in Art and Education

Art Writing – Selected

Qureshi, A. (2023, July 26). Review: Who Sings the Queer Island Body? by Kama La Mackerel. C Magazine.

Qureshi, A. (2017, July 7). Lala Rukh 1948 – 2017. The Daily Times Pakistan.

Qureshi, A. (2016, June 19). Review: Of Light and Shadows, Imran Qureshi at Barbican. Dawn Newspaper Pakistan.

Qureshi, A. (2015, April 26). Profile: Huma Mulji, Dawn Newspaper Pakistan.

Rajani, S. & Qureshi, A., (2015, March 22). Flashback: Milestones in Pakistani Art, Dawn Newspaper Pakistan.

Qureshi, A. (2015, February 08). Lala Rukh, all about proportion. Dawn Newspaper Pakistan.

Qureshi, A. (2014, November 16). Profile: Erosion, Faiza Butt. Dawn Newspaper Pakistan.

Sohail, A., Rizvi. N, Qureshi, A. & Rajani, S. (2014, November 16). Violence as a visual metaphor. Dawn Newspaper Pakistan.

Qureshi, A. (2014, February 02). My Mother’s Shawl. The News on Sunday, Pakistan.


Exhibition Catalogues and Artistic Contributions

Qureshi, A. (2023). “I am not gay”. Sluice Magazine. Autumn/Winter 2023. 24-29.

Qureshi, A. (2020). Reflections on Tom’s Men, Cadinot, and Zulfikar’s Mussalmaan Musclemen, Across the way with…, Shimmer. (Audio)

Qureshi, A. (2018). Darkrooms: Retracing Childhood Memories. Peripeti, 15(29/30), 138-145. Hentet fra

River in an Ocean – curated by Abdullah Qureshi and Natasha Malik, (2018). COLABS, Lahore, digital. (exhibition catalogue)

Open Field: Contemporary Art from Pakistan. (2016). Pakistan National Council of the Arts, Islamabad. (exhibition catalogue)

The story of myself and some friends in these fragments of daily loves – solo exhibition of Abdullah Qureshi. (2017). The National College of Arts, Lahore, Topical Printers, Lahore. (exhibition catalogue)

Wandering Forms – solo exhibition of Abdullah Qureshi. (2013). The Alhamra Arts Council, Lahore and The National College of Arts, Rawalpindi, Topical Printers, Lahore. (exhibition catalogue)

Journal Manuscript Referee Reviewer

Article Reviewer, Popular Inquiry: The Journal of the Aesthetics of Kitsch, Camp and Mass Culture, 2019