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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

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