Portrait of Abdullah Qureshi. Photograph courtesy: Hammas Wali

Recent News

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

Cut-out Experiments (work-in-progress), 2024 - Present
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.