Nusra Latif Qureshi
1973 Born in Lahore, Pakistan
1995. BFA, National College of Arts, Lahore
2001. MFA, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
Now Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia
Solo exhibitions
2015 Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Of Birds of Prey/Paradise, Utopia and Perhaps Elysian Fields
2014 The Biological Remains of an Eighteenth Century Sampler, Chawkandi Art Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
2013 Simulacra- Strategies of Selves, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Desires of Memory, Rohtas 2 Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan
2012 Forever and Ever, Green Cardamom, London
2011 Realms of Intimacy, Contemporary Arts Centre, Cincinnati, USA
2009 The Invisible Gun, Chawkandi Art Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
2007 Familiar Memories, Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne, Australia
A Garden of Fruit Trees, Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2005 Acts of Compliance, Green Cardamom at Studio Glass Gallery, London, UK
Intentions of Memory, Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne, Australia
2004 Exotic Bodies, Counihan Gallery In Brunswick, Melbourne, Australia
The Way I Remember Them, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, USA
2002 Altered Perceptions, Artholes Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Postcolonial Representations, Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne, Australia
1999 Rohtas Art Gallery, Islamabad, Pakistan
Duo exhibitions
2011 The Way You Look At Me, Gallery 4A, Sydney, Australia. With Naeem Rana
2010 This Reminds Me Of Some Place, Cross Art Projects, Sydney, Australia. With Naeem Rana
2009 A Kultour project with Naeem Rana, Adelaide Festival Centre, OzAsia Festival, Adelaide, Australia.
2005 Exotic Bodies, Heavenly Products, Nexus Gallery, Adelaide and Fremantle Arts Centre, WA, Australia. A Kultour project with Naeem
Rana.
Canvas Art Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan. With Navin Hayder
Selected group exhibitions
2018 The Shape of Time, Kunst Historisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
2016 GOMA Turns 10, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
2013 Air Born, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Victoria
Nothing to Declare? The Academy of Arts, Brandenburger Tor, Berlin
2012 Negotiating This World: Contemporary Australian Art National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Aotearoa, New Zealand
Sub-Topical Heat:New Art form South Asia
Remarking/Remaking, Blacktown Arts Centre, New South Wales, Australia
2011 Beyond the Self, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia
The Global Contemporary. Art Worlds After 1989, Zentrum Fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
Drawn From Life, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, UK
2010 The Rising Tide, Mohatta Palace Museum, Karachi, Pakistan
Beyond the Page, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA, USA
2009 53rd Venice Biennale, Italy
East West Divan: Contemporary Art from Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan
Figuration Now, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne. Australia
National Art Gallery, Islamabad, Pakistan
2008 Living Traditions, Turquoise Mountain, Kabul, Afghanistan
An Ever Expanding Universe, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Australia
Canada/ 24 HR Art, Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto Scarborough
Urban Myths, Modern Fables, Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, Australia
2007 Fifth Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Karkhana: A Contemporary Collaboration, San Francisco Asian Art Museum, USA
Common Destination, The Drawing Center, New York, USA
Beyond the Page, The Asia House, London/ Manchester Art Gallery, UK
Lila/Play, Contemporary Miniature and New Art from South Asia, Span Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
2006 Urban Myths, Modern Fables, UTS Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Landscape: Form and Thought, Ingrao, New York, USA
Beyond the Page, Huddersfield Art Gallery, UK
2005 Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, USA
Karkhana: A Contemporary Collaboration
Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
RAPT: Austral-Asia Zero Five
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii, USA
Shridharini Gallery, New Delhi, India
RITU- A Gathering of Seasons
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India
2004 Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Rochdale Art Gallery, Rochdale, UK
2003 K3 Project Space, Zurich, Switzerland
La Maison d’Art Contemporain Chaillioux, Fresnes, France
18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica, California, USA
The Fine Art Resource, Berlin, Germany
Counihan Gallery In Brunswick, Melbourne, Australia
2002 Canvas Art Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
Span Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
2001 International Arts Centre, New Delhi, India
Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India
2000 Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Gallery NCA, Lahore, Pakistan
Miniature Painting at National College of Arts
Collections
British Museum, London
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Parliament of Australia, Canberra
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii
Self Help Graphics and Art Archive, Los Angeles
ArtOmi International Arts Center, New York
Landfall Press, Santa Fe, USA
Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
Darebin City Council, Melbourne
Moreland City Council, Melbourne, Australia
Commissions
2016 Melbourne City Council
2015 Landfall Press, Santa Fe
2011 Australian Tapestry Workshop, The Diamond Jubilee Tapestry
1999 Nestle, Pakistan
Awards& Residencies
2012 Australia Council Grant For New Work
International Programs Grant, Arts Victoria
2009 Residency at Victorian (now Australian) Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne, Australia
Co-Recipient, Kultour grant for OzAsia Festival
2008 Arts Victoria Grant for Creation of New Work
2007 International Programs Grant, Arts Victoria, Export and Touring
2006 Australia Council Grant For New Work
2005 Darebin La Trobe Acquisitive Art Prize for Emerging Artist
Ian Potter Cultural Trust Travel Grant
International Programs Grant, Arts Victoria
2004 Australia Council Kultour Grant
Moreland City Cultural Grant
2003 Residency at Hydra Studio, Footscray Community Arts Centre,
Melbourne, Australia
UNESCO residency at 18th Street Arts Complex, Los Angeles, USA
2002 Residency at Art Omi International Arts Center, New York. USA
Julian Burnside Prize, Emerging Artists Program, Mira Fine Art Gallery,
Melbourne
1995. BFA, National College of Arts, Lahore
2001. MFA, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
Now Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia
Solo exhibitions
2015 Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Of Birds of Prey/Paradise, Utopia and Perhaps Elysian Fields
2014 The Biological Remains of an Eighteenth Century Sampler, Chawkandi Art Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
2013 Simulacra- Strategies of Selves, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Desires of Memory, Rohtas 2 Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan
2012 Forever and Ever, Green Cardamom, London
2011 Realms of Intimacy, Contemporary Arts Centre, Cincinnati, USA
2009 The Invisible Gun, Chawkandi Art Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
2007 Familiar Memories, Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne, Australia
A Garden of Fruit Trees, Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2005 Acts of Compliance, Green Cardamom at Studio Glass Gallery, London, UK
Intentions of Memory, Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne, Australia
2004 Exotic Bodies, Counihan Gallery In Brunswick, Melbourne, Australia
The Way I Remember Them, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, USA
2002 Altered Perceptions, Artholes Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Postcolonial Representations, Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne, Australia
1999 Rohtas Art Gallery, Islamabad, Pakistan
Duo exhibitions
2011 The Way You Look At Me, Gallery 4A, Sydney, Australia. With Naeem Rana
2010 This Reminds Me Of Some Place, Cross Art Projects, Sydney, Australia. With Naeem Rana
2009 A Kultour project with Naeem Rana, Adelaide Festival Centre, OzAsia Festival, Adelaide, Australia.
2005 Exotic Bodies, Heavenly Products, Nexus Gallery, Adelaide and Fremantle Arts Centre, WA, Australia. A Kultour project with Naeem
Rana.
Canvas Art Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan. With Navin Hayder
Selected group exhibitions
2018 The Shape of Time, Kunst Historisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
2016 GOMA Turns 10, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
2013 Air Born, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Victoria
Nothing to Declare? The Academy of Arts, Brandenburger Tor, Berlin
2012 Negotiating This World: Contemporary Australian Art National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Aotearoa, New Zealand
Sub-Topical Heat:New Art form South Asia
Remarking/Remaking, Blacktown Arts Centre, New South Wales, Australia
2011 Beyond the Self, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia
The Global Contemporary. Art Worlds After 1989, Zentrum Fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
Drawn From Life, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, UK
2010 The Rising Tide, Mohatta Palace Museum, Karachi, Pakistan
Beyond the Page, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA, USA
2009 53rd Venice Biennale, Italy
East West Divan: Contemporary Art from Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan
Figuration Now, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne. Australia
National Art Gallery, Islamabad, Pakistan
2008 Living Traditions, Turquoise Mountain, Kabul, Afghanistan
An Ever Expanding Universe, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Australia
Canada/ 24 HR Art, Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto Scarborough
Urban Myths, Modern Fables, Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, Australia
2007 Fifth Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Karkhana: A Contemporary Collaboration, San Francisco Asian Art Museum, USA
Common Destination, The Drawing Center, New York, USA
Beyond the Page, The Asia House, London/ Manchester Art Gallery, UK
Lila/Play, Contemporary Miniature and New Art from South Asia, Span Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
2006 Urban Myths, Modern Fables, UTS Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Landscape: Form and Thought, Ingrao, New York, USA
Beyond the Page, Huddersfield Art Gallery, UK
2005 Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, USA
Karkhana: A Contemporary Collaboration
Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
RAPT: Austral-Asia Zero Five
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii, USA
Shridharini Gallery, New Delhi, India
RITU- A Gathering of Seasons
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India
2004 Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Rochdale Art Gallery, Rochdale, UK
2003 K3 Project Space, Zurich, Switzerland
La Maison d’Art Contemporain Chaillioux, Fresnes, France
18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica, California, USA
The Fine Art Resource, Berlin, Germany
Counihan Gallery In Brunswick, Melbourne, Australia
2002 Canvas Art Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
Span Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
2001 International Arts Centre, New Delhi, India
Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India
2000 Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Gallery NCA, Lahore, Pakistan
Miniature Painting at National College of Arts
Collections
British Museum, London
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Parliament of Australia, Canberra
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii
Self Help Graphics and Art Archive, Los Angeles
ArtOmi International Arts Center, New York
Landfall Press, Santa Fe, USA
Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
Darebin City Council, Melbourne
Moreland City Council, Melbourne, Australia
Commissions
2016 Melbourne City Council
2015 Landfall Press, Santa Fe
2011 Australian Tapestry Workshop, The Diamond Jubilee Tapestry
1999 Nestle, Pakistan
Awards& Residencies
2012 Australia Council Grant For New Work
International Programs Grant, Arts Victoria
2009 Residency at Victorian (now Australian) Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne, Australia
Co-Recipient, Kultour grant for OzAsia Festival
2008 Arts Victoria Grant for Creation of New Work
2007 International Programs Grant, Arts Victoria, Export and Touring
2006 Australia Council Grant For New Work
2005 Darebin La Trobe Acquisitive Art Prize for Emerging Artist
Ian Potter Cultural Trust Travel Grant
International Programs Grant, Arts Victoria
2004 Australia Council Kultour Grant
Moreland City Cultural Grant
2003 Residency at Hydra Studio, Footscray Community Arts Centre,
Melbourne, Australia
UNESCO residency at 18th Street Arts Complex, Los Angeles, USA
2002 Residency at Art Omi International Arts Center, New York. USA
Julian Burnside Prize, Emerging Artists Program, Mira Fine Art Gallery,
Melbourne
