Moeen Faruqi is an artist and writer living in Karachi. His paintings have been exhibited widely within Pakistan and internationally in Canada, Italy, Singapore, Bangladesh, UK and India. His poems ha
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Moeen Faruqi is an artist and writer living in Karachi. His paintings have been exhibited widely within Pakistan and internationally in Canada, Italy, Singapore, Bangladesh, UK and India. His poems have been published in various literary journals in Pakistan and abroad. Moeen Faruqi has earned a strong reputation as a painter of alienation in the modern world.
His work conveys the angst of existence in an urban setting. Reflecting a global culture, our cities have become increasingly similar and even interchangeable. This globalization and uniformity also leads to greater estrangement and a sense of unbelonging.
Primarily narrative in nature, his work speaks through characters that stare out at the viewer, as if pleading for relief from distorted relationships and artificial interactions. Men, women, and even animals, enact an absurdist theatre that attempts to engage and elicit a response – perhaps of self-recognition – from the viewer. His latest work includes the Large Face series: bright, vivid and oversized portraits that affirm the uniqueness of each individual, in an atmosphere where fashion produces an ironic and disturbing homogeneity.
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Education
1992 M.Ed University of Wales UK
1981 B.S California State University Fresno, USA
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Koel Gallery
2017 Drawing Retrospective, IVS Gallery
2016 Canvas Gal
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Education
1992 M.Ed University of Wales UK
1981 B.S California State University Fresno, USA
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Koel Gallery
2017 Drawing Retrospective, IVS Gallery
2016 Canvas Gallery
2014 Khaas Gallery, Islamabad
2013 Canvas Gallery, Karachi
2011 Khaas Gallery, Islamabad
2011 Utterly Art Gallery, Singapore
2009 Canvas Gallery, Karachi
2008 Rohtas II, Lahore
2006 Canvas Gallery, Karachi
2005 Khaas Gallery, Islamabad
2004 Zenaini Gallery, Karachi
2003 Croweaters Gallery, Lahore
2002 Chawkandi Gallery, Karachi
2001 Gallery 401, Toronto
2000 Gallery Pangloss, Pisa, Italy
1999 The Art Gallery, Islamabad
1998 Indus Gallery, Karachi
1997 Chawkandi Gallery, Karachi
1995 Indus Gallery, Karachi
1993 Indus Gallery Karach
Selected Group Shows (Pakistan)
2017 Karachi Art Biennale
2017 Tanzara Gallery, Islamabad
2013 MAD Sculpture show, ArtChowk Gallery Karachi
2012 Rupture/Rapture – Curated by Sumbul Khan, VM Art Gallery, Karachi
2010 Out of the Box, Indus Valley School of Art, Karachi
2007 National Art Exhibition,National Art Gallery,Islamabad
2000 Canvas Gallery
1999 The Millenium Show, Arts Council of Pakistan
1999 Urban Voices, Sheraton Art Festival
1996 Artists from Karachi, Hunerkada, Islamabad
1995 National Art Exhibition, Alhamra Arts Centre, Lahore
1995 PNCA Show, Islamabad
1994 Zahoor-ul-Akhlaq Gallery, Lahore
1990 Shakir Ali Museum, Lahore
Selected Group Shows (International)
Bonhams Fundraising Art Auction, October 2013
New Art from Pakistan, London, 2012
2011 ARTrium @ MICA, Singapore
2009 Gallery II, Bradford University, UK
2008 Unicorn Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2007 Indus Strokes, Mumbai, India
2001 The Art Gallery of Peel, Brampton, Canada
2001 Lakeshore Arts, Toronto, Canada
1997 Asian Art Biennale, Dhaka, Bangladesh
1991 6th Asian Watercolour Exhibition, Nagoya, Japan
Curatorial Work
2000 KaraArt 2000, Contemporary Art, Alliance Francaise, Karachi
1994 Artists from Karachi, National College of Art, Lahore
1990 Visual Arts Karachi, Shakir Ali Museum, Lahore
Arts Residency and Workshops
2006 Vasl 2nd International Artists Workshop, Gadani, Pakistan
2010 Printmaking workshop with Michael Kempson, Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture
Bibliography and Select References
Naqvi, Akbar, Image and Identity: Painting and Sculpture in Pakistan (2010) 2nd Ed. Oxford University Press, Karachi
Ali, Salwat, Jouneys of the Spirit: Pakistan Art in the New Millenium (2008) FOMMA, A Perspective of Contemporary
Paintings, Prints and Sculptures in Pakistan, (2006) VM Art Gallery, Karachi.
Ali, S. Amjad, Painters of Pakistan (1995) National Book Foundation, Karachi
Mulji, H and Mundrawala, A., Pakistan: 50 Years -An Art Retrospective (1998), CD-Rom, ABN Amro Bank, Karachi
Akhtar, Aasim, “Fragmentary Scenes”, The News, Karachi July 24, 2005
Husain, Marjorie, “Face to Face”, Gallery, Dawn, April 10, 2004
Khan, Ayesha, “Enigmatic Figures”, The Star Karachi April 24, 2004
Naqvi, Dr.Akbar, “The Art of Escaping”, The Herald, Karachi, May 1997
Ali, Amra, “Nostalgia and Alienation”, The Star, Karachi, Dec 8, 1993
Anant, Victor, “Facing up to Faruqi”, The News, Karachi, Dec 8, 1993
Farrukh, Niilofur, “City Lights”, Newsline Karachi, December 1993
Writings
Poems have been published in Poetry from Pakistan: An Anthology, Oxford University Press (1997), Dragonfly in the
Sun: An Anthology of Pakistani Literature, Oxford University Press (1997), Karachi and in The Poetry of Men’s Lives,
The Univ. of Georgia Press, USA (2004). Poems have also appeared in Verse, Orbis, The Rialto (UK), Rattle (USA)
and in Cyphers (Ire.).
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