Exhibitions and Performances
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions and Film Screenings
2022
Behra Paar curated by Zahra and Asma Khan, Satrang Gallery, Islamabad, Pakistan
2021
ABJD series premier: Prologue 1009 and Heaven 58 (Film Screening) CounterPulse Festival, curated by Julie Phelps, CounterPulse, San Francisco, USA
Future Faithful: Islamic Experiments in Space Exploration and Posthumanism curated by Clea Massiani and Chris Grunder, Bass and Reiner Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2019
Tomorrow We Inherit the Earth: Notes From a Guerrilla War curated by Aziz Suhail, Sanat Initiative Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
2017
ONE PLUS ONE PLUS TWO RESIDENT ARTIST Exhibition, San Francisco, USA
Mussalmaan Musclemen curated by Baruch Porras Hernandez, Strut, San Francisco, USA
2016
This Means War 2 RSF, curated by Kaitlin Trataris, San Francisco, USA
2015
The Shrine, curated by Abdullah Qureshi Gallery 39K, Lahore, Pakistan
Group Exhibitions
2022
Beyond Binaries curated by Roula Seikaly, SFSU Galleries, San Francisco, USA
Saahil Ki Kahaaniya curated by Noor Jehan Bilgrami, Koel Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
2021
New Age Art curated by Emaan Mahmud, IVS Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
After Life (We Survive) curated by Thea Quay Tagle, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
2020
Residency Projects In Flux curated by Mayumi Hamanaka, Kala Art Center, Berkeley, USA
Ungodly: The Spiritual Medium curated by Justin Charles Hoover, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, USA
Home/ Body curated by Kathy Zarur, Mills College, Oakland, San Francisco, USA
2019
I am to see it that I do not lose you, two person exhibition with Orestes Gonzales, curated by Roula Seikaly, SFCamerawork, San Francisco, USA
New Asian Futurisms, Asian Arts Initiative Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
Jagah Jadoo, curated by Vasudhaa Narayanan, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, USA
Contemporary Anxieties, curated by Seher Naveed and Omer Wasim, IVS Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
The Perfect Gentleman, curated by Zahra Khan, Rossi and Rossi Gallery, London, UK
2018
Discostan Video Lab, curated by Arshia Fatima Haq, Civic Center Studios, Las Angeles, US
Mark For Redaction, curated by Hilal Khalil, Flux Factory, Long Island City, New York, USA
Beirut Art Fair, curated by 12 Gates Gallery, International Exhibition & Leisure Center, Beirut, Lebanon
Culture Catalyst curated by Kevin Chen and Jamie Cortez, SFAC Gallery, San Francisco, USA
At Midnight there was no border, Uqbar Art Gallery, Berlin, Germany
A1 Bazaar, curated by Anuva Kalawar and Jasmine Vasandani, Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, USA
Unruly Politics, curated by Aisha Zia Khan and Atif Shaikh, Twelve Gates Art, Philadelphia, USA
River in an Ocean, curated by Abdullah Qureshi and Natasha Malik Lahore Biennale, Lahore, Pakistan
2017
The Karachi Biennale, Claremont House, Karachi, Pakistan
Introductions, curated by Michelle Mansour, Root Division, San Francisco, USA
Past as Present curated by Aziz Suhail, Gandhara Art Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
Art Book San Francisco Art Book Fair, Bass and Reiner Gallery, Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco, USA
2016
Domestic Affairs, curated by Isabelle Van Den Eynde, Gallery Isabelle Van Den Eynde, Dubai, UAE
The 70s Pakistan’s Radioactive Decade, curated by Amin Gulgee, Amin Gulgee Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
2015
THAAP Conference on Photography, curated by Abdullah Qureshi, Lahore, Pakistan
Lahore Literary Festival, curated by Salima Hashmi, Al Hamra Arts Centre, Lahore Pakistan
2014
Agency in Post-Conflict Societies, curated by Salma Augestad, White Space Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Performance
2019
Alif is For Awakening Queer Elsewheres, Part of the Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, USA
Alif is For Awakening We Mokhtalefs Festival, Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany
Alif is For Awakening PUBLICS Festival, Kaiku, Helsinki, Finland
Tomorrow We Inherit the Earth: The Queer Intifada, CounterPulse, San Francisco, USA
Alif is for An(n)als, CounterPulse Festival, CounterPulse, San Francisco, USA
Alif is for Revolution, UC Santa Barbara Multicultural Center, USA
2018
Remembering Alif The de Young Museum, San Francisco, USA
Alif is for An(n)als, Beyond Gravity CounterPulse, San Francisco, USA
Masq for Masq, SAFEHouse, San Francisco, USA
Navigating Alif, Queer Rebels Festival, African American Arts and Culture Complex, San Francisco, USA
Bodies in Resistance, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, USA
2017
Alif is For Revolution APAture Festival: Unravel, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA
Kuir Bogotá Festival, Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño, Bogotá, Colombia
Fatal Love: Where are we now? Queen’s Museum, New York City, USA
Deceptive Actions, De Young Museum, San Francisco, USA
FATHER (strikethrough), Visions from the Pit, San Francisco International Arts Festival, curated by Embark Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Silent Crisis, LGBTQ Cultural Showcase, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA
Silent Crisis, Espacio KB, Bogota, Colombia
2016
APAture: HERE Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA
Unfinished Business, A.C.T Costume Shop, San Francisco, USA
2015
Subtraction Under Mission, San Francisco, USA
Curatorial Projects
2018
Performing Queer Muslim Futures, Sanctuary City Commission, The Stud Collective, San Francisco, US
The Third Muslim: Queer and Trans Muslim Narratives of Resistance and Resilience, SOMArts Cultural Centre, San Francisco, USA
2016,
Is Saye Kay Parcham Talay Lahore and Karachi Pakistan, Multiple Venues
2015
Young Street Photographers Gallery 71, Karachi, Pakistan
Awards and Residencies
2020
MAP Fund Recipient
San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant Recipient
2019
YBCA 100 Award Recipient
Kala Art Media Artist Residency and Award Recipient
FACT/ SF Grant Recipient
Zellerbach Family Foundation Grant Recipient
2018
San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant Recipient
Headlands Center for the Arts, Fall Performance Artist in Residence
SOMArts Curatorial Residency
2017
Art Matters Grant Nominee
Tossa Award Nominee
Zellerbach Family Foundation Grant Recipient
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Grant Recipient
Alternative Exposure Award Recipient
SafeHouse RAW Performance Residency
One + One + Two Residency, San Francisco, USA
Artist Talks, Panels and Juries
2021
“Other Archives”, online panel discussion, Society for Photographic Education
2020
“Queering the Future: A conversation between Thea Quiray Tagle and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto” webinar Colgate University,
“Tomorrow We Inherit the Earth: Textile, Art Practice, Gender and Revolution” artist talk, EU4Art
2019
Queer Elsewheres, Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, USA
Terrifying Drag, a panel in conversation with Lawhore Vagistan and Alpesh Patel, A | P | A at NYU, New York City, USA
Gender, Sexuality and Cartography, panel discussion, Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA
Murphy and Cadogen Award Juror, San Francisco, USA
Graduate Lecture Series, Mills College, Oakland, USA
Artist Talk, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, USA
Graduate Lecture Series, UC Irvine, Orange County, USA
2018
Murphy and Cadogen Award Juror, San Francisco, USA
Guest Juror, Diego Rivera Gallery Exhibitions, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA
Artist Panel, co-presented by SFCamerawork and SOMArts, SFCamerawork, San Francisco, USA
Artist Talk, South Asian Arts and the Diaspora, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, USA
Artist Panel, Queer Politics in Pakistan and the Pakistani Diaspora, Columbia University, New York City, USA
Artist Talk, Twelve Gates Art Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
Artist Talk, California College of the Arts, Oakland, USA
2017
Artist Talk, Radar Productions, San Francisco Public Library, USA
2016
Artist Talk, Indus Valley School of Art, Karachi, Pakistan
Education
2016 MFA in Studio Art, San Francisco Art Institute
2014 MAH in History of Art, Edinburgh University
2013 BA in History of Art, Edinburgh University