ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
HASNAT MEHMOOD
Born 1978, Jhelum, Pakistan
BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts), National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan, 2001
Mehmood is currently a lecturer in Fine Arts, Miniature Department, National College of Arts, Lahore
Lives and works in Jhelum, Pakistan.
Select Solo Exhibitions
2008 Original Image May Vary, Chawkandi Gallery, Karachi
Select Group Exhibitions
2007 Lahore Lovelies, Aicon Gallery, London
2006 Between Two worlds; Group show at Crow-eaters Gallery, Lahore
Beyond The Page: Contemporary Art from Pakistan, Group show at Asia House and Manchester Art Gallery, UK
Partitions: Contemporary Art from India and Pakistan, Group show at HNTB Architecture, Washington D.C
Group show of Miniatures at Canvas Gallery, Karachi
Lila/Play: Contemporary Miniatures & New Art from South Asia, Australia
Landscape: Places real and imagined, Group show at Alhamra Gallery, Lahore
2005 The Artist's Face, Self-Portraits of our Times, Gallery Rohtas 2, Lahore
Contemporary Miniatures, Crow-eaters Gallery, Lahore
Karkhana, A Contemporary Collaboration, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, CT, USA (Exhibition would be traveling to Asian Art Museum)
Voices, World Bank Office, Islamabad
2004 Contemporary Miniatures from Pakistan, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
Playing with a Loaded Gun, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
Green Cardamom @ Hosains, London
2003 Karkhana, Touchstones Art Gallery, Rochdale, UK
Contemporary Miniatures from Pakistan, K3 – Project Space, Zurich
Playing with a Loaded Gun, Apexart, New York (catalogue)
Miniatures Pakistanaises, Masion d'Art Contemporain Chaillioux,
Fresnes, France (Catalogue)
New Voices, Canvas Gallery, Karachi
Around Miniature, Chawkandi Art, Karachi
2002 Paintings from Pakistan, Niavaran Gallery, Tehran
Stepping Out, Rohtas 2 Gallery, Lahore
Group show of Miniatures, Ejaz Gallery, Lahore
Translations, Rohtas 2 Gallery, Lahore
Workshops
2006 Demonstration of techniques of Miniature with Qamar Adamjee, Aldrich Museum CT, USA
Collections
British Museum, London UK
Fukuoka Museum of Asian Arts, Japan
Virginia Whiles, Curator and Art Historian
Salima Hashmi, Dean of BNU, School of Visual Arts, Lahore
Sajjida Haider Vandal, Principal National College of Arts, Lahore
Nazish Atta Ullah, Asst. Professor Printmaking, National College of Arts, Lahore