Artist | Researcher | Writer
Born in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Based in Helsinki, Finland
I am an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and a writer. I graduated with a Masters in Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and earned my B.A. in Architecture and Visual Studies from the University of Toronto.
I have produced a collection of visual, performance, installation and photography projects. I am also a writer and a critic. My writing examines the structural inequality manifested in the built environment. My work has been published in various magazines. My independent art practice engages with themes of occupation, displacement, and geopolitical tensions.
CV
Exhibitions & Publications
2023 - Cornell University - HAUS Symposium
2023 - Sharjah Architecture Triennial
2022 - PICTURE BERLIN - Berlin Art Week
2021 - Places Journal, New York City
2019 - Once Upon A Water - Toronto Artscape Gibralter Point
2019 -' Habibiz' A Group Exhibition by Way Past Kennedy Road
2018 - Lifeworlds: Muslim Justice Collective UofT
2018 - ARTSIDEOUT at UTSC
2018 - Resistance Through Art: Munk School of Global Affairs
2018 - IAW: Nakbah, Resistance, Return: Anti-colonial arts and cultural night
Awards & Residencies
2022 - GSAPP Writing Prize, Columbia University
2022 - Artist in Residence - PICTURE BERLIN, Berlin, Germany
2019 - Artist in Residence - Once Upon Water - Toronto, Canada
2018 - Peter W. and Linda D. Hamilton Award in Social Housing
2018 - ARTSIDEOUT Studio Award
2018 - Daniel's Undergraduate Community Leadership Award
2015 - T-Card Holders Award for Academic Excellence
Experience
Editorial Intern
Friends of Friends - Berlin
March 2023 - Present
Berlin, Germany
Research Assistant
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Columbia University
September 2021 - May 2022
New York, USA
Events Assistant
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Columbia University
September 2021 - May 2022
New York, USA
Events and Outreach Coordinator
Association of Part-Time Undergraduate Students at UofT
July 2018 - March 2020
Toronto, Ontario
Curator - Our Anatomies
Specimens and Fragments:
Daniel's Faculty End of Year show
April 2018 - June 2018
Toronto, Ontario
Editor in Chief
Shift magazine
September 2017-May 2018
Toronto, Ontario.
Education
2020 - 2022 Columbia University
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
MS. Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices of Architecture
2014 - 2018 University of Toronto
Honors of Bachelors of Arts, Architecture
Honors of Bachelors of Arts, Visual Studies