Bio:

I am a combined media artist based in Albany, New York.  I am interested in Social Practice,  and explore new methods of working with communities in Pakistan and the United States. I have a Master of Fine Arts Degree from the University at Albany, New York, and an undergraduate degree in architecture from Cornell University. I love curating events and have been involved in setting up interdisciplinary symposiums, and performances in both public and private space.

Artist Statement:

Part Pakistani, part American—I am in between. Though I am able to cross boundaries and inhabit both worlds, I experience the joy and dilemma of not belonging to either country. This leads to my interest in home and identity as concepts that are not rooted to one place and which, might even, enjoy their positionality somewhere in the middle.
Moving towards a positive understanding of rootless, contemporary identity, and weaving various homes and places into a relational network of being, a non-binary logic of fragments is becoming the focus of my art.

My work falls somewhere between social and studio practice, and draws on personal experience to create intimate situations for exchange and opportunities for the imagination of new homelands—without borders.