Bio

Visual artist Hasnat Mehmood trained in the miniature painting tradition at the National College of Arts, in Lahore, Pakistan currently works in multiple media including sound, drawing, installation, collage, performance, and interactive events. His work is informed by neo-colonial practices, postcolonial history and art itself.

His most recent work was titled, Word, Image and Language, a participatory installation. Through this work, he has investigated the power of the written “word” within the context of art and how art objects are so radically different from and quite impossible to be translated into words. How a written text that describes an image has an enormous control and influence within art world.

Mehmood has shown nationally and internationally over the past two decades. His work is in collections of British Museum, Fukuoka Museum Japan and most recently Guggenheim Museum Abu Dhabi. He was part of a group show titled Karkhana: A Contemporary Collaboration that traveled internationally and was shown at The Asian Art Museum, in San Francisco and at The Aldrich Contemporary Museum, in Connecticut. He taught at his alma mater from 2005-2017.

He was an artist-in-residence at Britto Artist Residency in Dhaka, 2006, and a Campus Art Dubai alumnus, 2014. 

Born in Jhelum, Mehmood lives and works between Dubai and Boston. He recently completed MFA in Interdisciplinary Practice from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, MA, USA. Currently, he is teaching art and drawing courses as Assistant Professor at Zayed University, Dubai Campus, UAE.

Office

Dubai Academic City, Dubai

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Teaching Areas

Art Foundation Courses and Drawing Courses