Khadim Ali
Born 1978 Quetta, Pakistan. Lives and works in Sydney, Australia.
Education
2011-15
Master of Fine Arts, College of Fine Arts University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2000-03
Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction, National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan
1998-99
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021
Invisible Border, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
2018
Fragmented Memories, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
2016
The Arrival, Milani Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2015
Transitions / Evacuation, ARNDT, Singapore
2014
Transitions / Evacuation, Milani Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
The Haunted Lotus, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2013
The Haunted Lotus, Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, Hong Kong
The Haunted Lotus, Milani Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2009
Rustam, Rohtas2 Lahore, Pakistan
2007
Rustam, Green Cardamon London, UK
2005
Qaeeda-e-Rivazi, Chawkandi Art Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
2004
Jashn-e-Gull-e-Surkh (The celebration of red tulips), Chawkandi Art Gallery Karachi, Pakistan
Collaborative Projects
2008-2011
Khadim Ali and Jayce Salloum, The hear that has no love/pain/generosity is not a heart, UTS, Sydney 2011 Plug-In, Winnipeg, Canada
2011
Kenderdine Art Gallery, University of Saskatoon, Canada
2010
University of Technology Sydney Gallery, Sydney, Australia Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada
2008
The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Kelowna, Canada
Two Person Exhibitions
2011
The Soul of my Land, Rohtas Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan
2007
Untitled, SCAI X SCAI Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, Australia
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
MCA Collection: Perspectives on Place, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2020
between the sun and the moon, Lahore Biennale 02, Lahore Biennale Foundation, Pakistan Lahore Biennale
2019-20
In one drop of water, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2019
Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber, Sharjah Art Museum, UAE
Australia. Antipodean Stories, PAC Milan, Milan
gohyang: home, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
Continental Shift: Contemporary Art and South Asia, Bunjil Place, Melbourne
Those Monuments Don’t Know Us, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne
2018
2018 Gangwon International Biennale: The Dictionary of Evil, South Korea
Enough خ لاص Khalas, University of New South Wales Galleries, Sydney
Waqt al-tagherr: Time of Change, ACE Open, Adelaide
Bearing Points - Dhaka Art Summit 2018, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Long, Winding Journeys: Contemporary Art and the Islamic Tradition, Katonah Museum of Art, New York
New Sacred, Mosman City Art Gallery, Sydney
Daneha, Blacktown Arts Centre, Blacktown
2017
The National, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Roaring Guardians, Asia Society, Hong Kong
Rendez-vous, Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
The Invisible, UTS Gallery, Ultimo, Australia
The Dust Never Settles, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia
2016
Refugees, Casula Powerhouse, Campbelltown, NSW
beyond the Tower: UQ Art Museum - 40 years and counting, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
2015
National Artists Self-Portrait Prize, University of Queensland, Brisbane
MARZHA/BORDERS, Nexus Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
On Return and What Remains (touring), CACSA, Adelaide, Australia
2014
On Return and What Remains (touring), Artspace, Sydney, Australia
Conflict: Contemporary Responses to War, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia
2013
Landlock, Casula Powerhouse, Western Sydney, Australia
No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City
2012
Propositions, Milani Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Shifting Sands, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia
Home Again, The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
dOCUMENTA(13), Kassel, Germany; Kabul, Afghanistan
12th Hong Kong Art Fair, Hong Kong
2011
Intimate Pictures, Pakistani Contemporary Miniatures, Pakistan
BATAP, Beijing Tokyo Art Project, Tokyo, Japan
The force of forgetting, Lismore Regional Gallery, NSW, Australia
Haunted Lotus, Cross Art Project, Sydney, Australia
2010
Contemporary Shahnama Painting, The Prince’s Foundation Gallery, London, UK
Haunted Lotus, Cross Art Project, Sydney, Australia
2009
East-West Divan, Venice Biennial, Italy
Safavid revisited, British Museum, London
East of Nowhere, Fondazione 107, Turin, Italy
Rustam, Bagh-e-Babur Kabul, Afghanistan
2008
RED, Hatch Art, ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan
Living Traditions, Bagh-e-Babur Kabul, Afghanistan; touring to National Gallery of Pakistan, Islamabad
2007
Urban Myth & Modern Fables, UTS Gallery, Sydney, Australia; touring Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto, Canada; 24 Hour Art, Darwin, Australia, Australia
2006
Wind of Artist, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
5th Asia Pacific Triennial, Brisbane, Australia
Lila/Play, Commonwealth Games Cultural Festival, Span Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2005
Love/Hate, Shangri-La Hotel Dubai, UAE
Voices, World Bank, Islamabad, Pakistan
2004
Contemporary Miniature Paintings from Pakistan, Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan
Extension, Canvas Art Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
Untitled, Rohtas (II) Art Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan
Untitled, Rohtas (I) Art Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan
Untitled, Alhamra Art Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan
2003
Roz-e-Nayayvish (Day of Worship), at National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan
New Voices, Canvas Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
Around Miniatures, Royatt Art Gallery, Lahore
Teaching Experience
2009, 2012
Turquoise Mountain Foundation, Kabul, Afghanistan
Marefat High School, Kabul, Afghanistan
2007-10
Workshops at Bamiyan Boys High School and Bamiyan Girls High School, Afghanistan
Artist Residencies
2007
Art Initiative Tokyo, Japan
2006
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
Awards and Prizes
2016
Western Sydney Arts Fellowship
2011-12
Australian Postgraduate Award
2010
Images Prize, 23rd Images Festival, Toronto, Canada
2005
Haji Sharif Prize, National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan
2000-03
Merit Scholarship NCA, Lahore, Pakistan
Baluchistan Merit Scholarship
Collections
Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
British Museum, London, UK
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
Foreign Office, Islamabad, Pakistan
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia
Private collections: England, USA, Holland, Hong Kong, Canada, Japan, Australia and Pakistan
Bibliography
2021
“Invisible Border,” by Alison Kubler, The Saturday Paper, April 17-23, 2021.
“Khadim Ali’s Woven Narratives,” by Emma-Kate Wilson, Mutual Art, May 19, 2021, https://www.mutualart.com/Article/Khadim-Alis-Woven-Narratives/55E49151D77343E6
“Hazara artist Khadim Ali goes from murals to miniatures to monumental tapestries and his largest exhibition yet,” by Hannah Reich, ABC, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-16/hazara-artist-khadim-ali-persian-miniatures-tapestry-embroidery/100122070
“Khadim Ali’s Invisible Border,” presented by Namila Benson, The Art Show podcast, ABC Radio Rational, April 14, 2021, https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/the-art-show/khadim-ali-jon-campbell-lee-lei/13301100
2019
Australia, Antipodean Stories, edited by Eugenio Viola, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, 2019.
Those monuments don’t know us, edited by Andy Butler, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Bundoora, 2019.
Journey beyond the arrow: Sharjah Biennial 14, edited by Zoe Butt, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, 2019.
2018
“Khadim Ali,” by Michael Young, Artist Profile, no. 40, 2017, https://artistprofile.com.au/khadim-ali/
Enough خلاص Khalas : contemporary Australian Muslim artists, edited by Phillip George and Nur Shkembi, University of New South Wales Galleries, 2018, https://artdesign.unsw.edu.au/sites/default/files/atoms/files/enough_khls_khalas_catalogue.pdf
2017
“Khadim Ali,” by Sheridan Hart, Art Guide Australia, June 26, 2017, https://artguide.com.au/khadim-ali/
The National: New Australian Art, edited by Blair French et al., Art Gallery of New South Wales; Carriageworks; Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2017.
“Hero's journey teaches Khadim Ali the art of embracing your inner demon,” by Peter Munro, The Sydney Morning Herald, March 26, 2017, https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/heros-journey-teaches-khadim-ali-the-art-of-embracing-your-inner-demon-20170326-gv6xia.html
2016
Khadim Ali, by Khadim Ali, Rachel Kent and Salima Hashmi, ARTAND Publishing, Sydney, 2016.
Refugees, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, 2016, pp. 6-7.
Micheal Young, Khadim Ali, Art Asia Pacific, no. 99, Jul/Aug, 2016, pp. 119-128.
MCA Collection Handbook, edited by Natasha Bullock, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2016.
2015
The Eye Still Seeks: Pakistani Contemporary Art (A Panoramic View of the Vibrant, Brilliant
World of Contemporary Pakitani Art. Edited by Salima Hashmi, Penguin Books, 2015.
2014
Thresholds of Motion - San Art Online Auction 2014, In Support of Vietnamese Contemporary Art, San Art, 4-8 December 2014, pp. 10-11.
“Art Feature: Khadim Ali”, Consequence Magazine, vol. 6, Spring 2014, pp.119-128.
2013
Chameleon from the Ashes: Casca@70 2012, The Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia INC., 2013, pp. 122-123.
Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative: Volume 1: South and Southeast Asia. Curated by YAP Teckcheng June, Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2013.
No-Mad-Ness in No Man’s Land. The Eslite Corp., 2013, pp.36-44.
Tauqueer, Komal, and Tauqeer Muhajir, 20 Pakistani Artists You Should Know, Nigaah Magazine, 2013.
2012
APT7 (The Seventh Asian Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art), Queensland Art Gallery, 2012.
Khadim Ali: Haunted Lotus, edited by Amna Tirmizi, Gandhara Art Hong Kong, 2012.
2010
(The Heart that has no Love/Pain/Generosity is not a Heart), edited by Haema Sivanesan, South Asian Visual Arts Centre, 2010.
Im Not There: A Sourcebook for the 8th Gwangju Biennale, edited by Massimiliano Gioni, Gwangju Biennale Foundation, 2010.
Whiles, Virginia, Art and Polemic in Pakistan: Cultural Politics and Tradition in Contemporary Miniature Painting. Tauris Academic Studies, 2010.
2009
La Biennale di Venezia 53: Making Worlds Participating Countries Collateral Events (53rd International Art Exhibition - Fare Mondi Making Worlds), edited by Daniel Birnbaum, Jochen Volz, Brian Sholis, Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia, 2009.
Living Traditions: Contemporary Art from Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan, edited by Jemima Montagu and Constance Wyndham, Turquoise Mountain, 2009.
2008
Ali, Salwat, Journeys of the Spirit: Pakistan Art in the New Millennium. FOMMA and Pakistan National Council of the Arts, 2008.
Urban Myths and Modern Fables, curated by Haema Sivanesan, Doris McCarthy Gallery and South Asian Visual Arts Centre, 2008.
2007
Hashmi, Salima, Memory, Metaphor, Mutations: Contemporary Art of India and Pakistan, edited by Yashodhara Dalima, Oxford University Press, 2007.
Rustam: Paintings by Khadim Ali, edited by Anita Dawood, Green Cardamom, 2007.
2006
The 5th Asian-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, edited by Suhnya Raffel, Lynne Seear, Queensland Art Gallery Publishing, 2006.
2005
Husain, Marjorie, Artviews: Encounters with Artists in Pakistan, FOMMA, 2005. Voices: Exhibition of Young Artists (Pakistan Development Forum April 2005), curated by Saima Zaidi and Naiza H. Khan, Jinnah Convention Centre & World Bank Islamabad Office, 2005.
2004
Contemporary Asian Artist III: Contemporary Miniature Paintings from Pakistan, edited by Yuko Yamaki, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, 2014.