TEACHING EXPERIENCE

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• 2022: Guest Professor, Städelschule

• 2023 – present: Teaching contemporary Arts, CCAA in EXiLe

• 2023-present: contacting workshop, Albertino Academy of Arts, Turin

• 2006- 2021: Teaching Contemporary Arts, Female Artistic Center of CCAA,

• 2004-2021: Teaching Contemporary Arts, Center for Contemporary Art Afghanistan,

• 2002-present: Teaching Contemporary Arts, Art History, Painting, and Drawing, Faculty of Fine Arts, Kabul University,

• 1997-2002: Teaching Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Institute of Fine Arts, Peshawar, Pakistan,

• 1993-1996: Teaching drawing and painting, Hearing Impaired, SERVE office,

• 1991-1993: Teaching Drawing to Hearing Impaired, ILO, Kabul,

• 1985-1987:  Teaching drawing and painting,  Ministry of Culture and Information Artistic Center “Maimanagi”

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FOUNDER

• 2021: Founder member and chairperson of CCAA in EXiLe. e.V

• 2018: Founder of Contemporary Art Studio, Faculty of Fine Arts

• 2006: Founder Director, Women Art Center

• 2004: Founder Director, Center for Contemporary Arts Afghanistan (CCAA)

• 1999: Founder Editor, Art Magazine “Ghanama-e-Hunar”

• 1995: Founder Editor, “Ayar” Magazine

 

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EDUCATION

• 2015-2017: MA, Oslo National Academy of Arts

• 1981-1985: Faculty of Fine Arts, Kabul University

• 1979-1981: Khair Khana High School

• 1970-1978: Primary and High School, Khair Khana, Babojane School

• 1978-1980: Golam Mohammad Maimanagi Art Center, Painting Department, Ministry of Culture and Information

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FELLOWSHIPS

Italia:

One year residency at Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Arts

• 2023: Creating the second part of Every Tiger Need a Horse project

• Workshop of Crossing the distance, Academy of Albertino, Turin

USA:

• 2012: Artslink Projects Award, Maryland Institute and College of Arts

Germany:

• 2004: Berlin, ifa-Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations

• 2004: University of Art, Konsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee

• 2022: Countering Fragmentation(workshop) at HKW Berlin, Germany

• 2024: Afghanistan Cultural fund Jury, Goethe institute in exile.

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MEMBERSHIP

• 2016: Member IKT, International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art

• 2014-present: Member AFI, Art Film International Curators, Whitechapel Gallery, London

• 2012-2021: Member HCA, High Council of Arts in Afghanistan

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EXHIBITIONS

Solo Exhibitions:

• 2013: Western Kentucky University of Arts, USA

• 2010: Kabul Zoo

• 2009: Gallery Over Photo, Napoli, Italy

• 2006: French Cultural Center, Kabul

• 2006: Leonardo Cultural Center, Frankfurt, Germany

 

Group Exhibitions:

• 2023: Artists in a Time of War, at Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Arts

• 2022: Video Spotlight, The third one, Asia society, New York

• 2017: Artists House, Oslo

• 2017: Ganges Art, Kolkata, India, "Memory Against Forgetting"

• 2013: Kassel Document 13, Germany

• 2012: Artist film international, Gaining and losing, London

• 2012: Documenta 13, Gaining and losing, Germany

• 2009: Asia Society, New York, USA

• 2009: Art Miami, USA

• 2009: New York City’s First Muslim Arts Festival

·2009: East of Nowhere, important exhibition of rare post-Soviet Central Asian art in Italy, 

• 2008: Various exhibitions in Argentina, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Italy, Morocco, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Serbia, Turkey, UK, US, and Vietnam

• 2008: The College of New Jersey, "Parable of the Garden", USA

• 2008: Winkleman Gallery, New York, USA

• 2005: Asia Society, New York, USA

 

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CLECTOINS

• 2006: Asia society, New York

• 2023: Castelo di Rivoli Contemporary Arts Museum, Turin

• 2023: Three other private Collections

 

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ORGANIZED AND CURATED EXHIBITIONS

• 2018: New Perspective, Exhibition of Ten Female Artists

• 2010: Trach art exhibition, Kabul university

• 2010: on the occasion of women international day

• 2009: Boon, the First Afghan Women Painting Exhibition

• 2009: Reflecting Democracy in Art, Serena Hotel, Kabul

• 2008: Make art not war, Boon, First Afghan Women Painting Exhibition

• 2008: Make art not war, Berlin, First Afghan Women Painting Exhibition

• 2008: Afghan women modern art exhibition in The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts

• 2008:  Afghan women modern art exhibition in Kolkata India.

• 2008: First Female Painting and Modern Painting Exhibition in Kabul, Amani High School, Kabul

• 2008: Afghanistan in Festival of creativity in Florence

• 2008: Afghan Women Contemporary Painting Exhibition, New Delhi, India

• 2004-2008: Various exhibitions in Berlin, New Delhi, and other international venues

 

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CONFERENCES AND PANELS DISCUSTIONS

• 2024: Talk & screening with Rahraw Omarzad, Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach, HFG

• 2014: congress of International Curators of Contemporary Arts

• 2023: panel discussion, The years 2001-2021 and the role of international cultural work, Festival Goethe-Institut in Exile Afghanistan

• 2023: Countering Fragmentation, (workshop) curated by A V A H at HKW Berlin

• 2022: Talking Galleries, art world symposium in New York, An international roster of top-level speakers

• 2009: A two-day symposium at Tate Britain and Tate Modern

• 2022: Key not of Knowledge Sharing Workshops, research papers and advocacy on the topic of cultural relations in fragile contexts by EUNIC

• 2022:  Cultural Centre of Belgrade, presentation

• 2022: Institutions and Resistance - Alliances for Art at Risk, Artists at Risk 

• 2020: stories from curators around the world at IKT 2020 

• 2016: Oslo pilot, panel discussion,  Every Tiger Ned a Hors

• 2013: Maryland Institute College of Art, USA

• 2012: University of Maryland, Baltimore

• 2012: Metropolitan Center for the Visual Arts, Rockville, Maryland

• 2012: TEDx Kabul

• 2012: VisArt, Artistic talk and presentation

• 2011: CEMEM Conference, Slovenia

• 2011: Panel Discussion on Afghan Art and Culture, Boon, Germany

• 2009: 9th Istanbul international biennial

• 2009: A two-day symposium at Tate Britain and Tate Modern, Contemporary Art in the Middle East

• 2009: Symposium “Contemporary Arts in New Silk Road Countries”, Bangkok, Thailand

• 2009: Conference of Contemporary Arts in South Asia, New Delhi, India

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AWARDS AND HONORS

• 2004-2006: Best Artist of Afghanistan, awarded by the Ministry of Culture and Arts

• 2001: Best Teacher Award at the Institute of Fine Arts, Pakistan

• Numerous certificates and letters of admiration from international institutions

 

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

• 2002-present: Lecturer, Faculty of Fine Arts, Kabul University

• 2004-present: Founder and Director, Center for Contemporary Arts Afghanistan (CCAA)

• 2006-present: Founder and Director, Women Art Center

• 2000-2007: Editor in Chief, Gahnam-e-Hunar Art Magazine

• 1997-2002: Lecturer, Institute of Fine Arts, Peshawar, Pakistan

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PUBLICATIONS

• 2021: “Renaissance Academy in Connection with Classicism”

• 2021: “The Place of Imagination in Art Educational Institutions in Kabul”

• 2018: “Confrontation of General Entrance Exam and Raising Quality in Faculty of Fine Arts”

• 2018: “Video Art in Afghanistan”

• 2018: “The Ups and Downs of Afghan Art in the Last Century”

• 2017: “Every Tiger Needs a Horse”, MA Essay, Oslo National Academy

• 2011: “The Beginning of the Third Artistic Change in Afghanistan” - Focus on Women's Role in Afghan Contemporary Art

• 1995-2007: “Gahnama-e Hunar” Art Magazine

• 1997: Co-editor, “Payame Sulh” Special Youth Magazine

• 1998: Ayar Magazine