Ayesha Jatoi was trained as a Miniature painter at the National College of the Arts in Lahore (Pakistan). Her practice primarily explores the traditional manuscript’s symbiotic relationship between the image and text and the spatial division of these “illuminated pages”. In Jatoi’s work, text often frees itself all together of the image. While being immersed in local ancient aesthetics of iconography, she simultaneously questions the relevance of traditional modes of constructing images today; resulting in a practice which takes on hybrid forms.
CV - Ayesha Jatoi
Education
2007 Masters (Hons.) Visual Arts, Gold Medal, National College of Arts
2005 Bachelors Fine Art, Miniature Painting, Honors, National College of the Arts
2001 Bachelors English Literature, Punjab University (Private Candidate).
1999 International Baccalaureate, United World College of the Atlantic, Wales, U.K.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2016 Tomorrow. Sabrina Amrani Gallery. Madrid, Spain.
2013 More Silence. Sabrina Amrani Gallery. Madrid, Spain.
2011 New works. Grey Noise, Lahore
2010 Mirror, Mirror. Rohtas II, Lahore
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
2017 Promises to Keep. Apexart. New York, USA.
2016 11th Shanghai Biennale. Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China.
2015 Measuring the immeasurable. Sabrina Amrani Gallery. Madrid, Spain.
2014 The importance of staying quiet. Yallay Gallery, Hong Kong.
2014 Stet, Lahore Literary Festival, Alhmara Gallery. Lahore. Pakistan.
2014 Please rewind!. Sabrina Amrani Gallery. Madrid, Spain.
2014 DIY, curated by Rashid Rana. Canvas Gallery. Karachi, Pakistan.
2013 Echoes: Islamic Art and Contemoprary Artists . The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Kansas City, Misuri, USA.
2012 vac.u.um’, Grey Noise, Dubai, UAE.
2012 Exhibition Without Objects, The Drawing Room, Lahore, Pakistan.
2012 Mein: The Artist and the Self, Koel Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan.
2012 Letters to Taseer, The Drawing Room, Lahore, Pakistan.
2012 In praise of red. Royaat Gallery. Lahore, Pakistan.
2011 Items of Dual Use, WIP: Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden.
2010 Off the Wall, Twelve Gates Gallery, Philadelphia, USA.
2010 …and then there was data, Zahoor-ul-Akhlaq Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan.
2010 In Search of the Exquiste, Ganges Art, Kolkata & L & P Hutheesing Visual Art
Centre, Ahmedabad, India.
2010 Fatah Jay Asay Passay, University of Sindh & VM Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan.
2010 Automaton Love, The Loft, Bombay, India.
2010 New Art from Pakistan. Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, USA.
2009 In the Beginning there was the word, Koel Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan.
2009 Emperor’s New Clothes, Talwar Gallery, New York, USA.
2008 Vasl Lahore Residency Show , Al-Hamra, Lahore, Pakistan.
2008 Let’s Talk: Five Pakistani Artists in Dialogue, Jam Jar Gallery, Dubai, UAE.
2008 26/04/08, Al-Hamra, Lahore, Pakistan.
2007 Miniature etc., MA Honors Degree Show, Zahoor-ul-Akhlaq Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan.
2007 IS, Exhibition of Contemporary Pakistani Art, Gallery 27, London, UK.
2007 Independent India, at the offices of Manning Gottlieb, London, UK.
2007 Thirteen Satellites of Lahore—Public Art 2, German Cultural Center, Lahore, Pakistan.
2007 Tales Spinning, Croweaters Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan.
2007 Kalakriti Gallery, Hyderabad, India.
2006 Thirteen Satellites — Public Art1, German Cultural Center, Lahore, Pakistan.
2006 Miniature Paintings. French Embassy, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Art fairs
2017 India Art Fair. Sabrina Amrani Gallery. New Delhi, India.
2016 India Art Fair. Sabrina Amrani Gallery. New Delhi, India.
2015 ArtInternational. Sabrina Amrani Gallery. Istanbul, Turkey.
2013 Artissima. Sabrina Amrani Gallery. Turin, Italy.
2012 Art Dubai. Grey Noise. Dubai, UAE.
2012 Art Contemporary Berlin. Grey Noise. Berlin, Germany. (solo show)
2011 Artissima. Grey Noise. Turin, Italy.
2011 India Art Summit, Grey Noise and The Jam Jar. New Delhi, India.
Bibliography (selection)
“Ayesha Jatoi: Multiple Ways of Interventions - From Miniature Paintings to Public Spaces”
Art World Shanghai, 313 Nov 2016
‘Tomorrow’, Marina Ferte, Expoartemadrid, Nov 25, 16
A Few Lines from Pakistan, Nonika Singh, Tribune India, June 19, 2016
“Politics of Representation: Feminist Art”, Mariam Shafqat, Express Tribune, May 10, 2016
‘Aim For the Head’, Pallavi Chattopadhyay, Indian Express, Feb 1, 2016
Quality over Quantity, Neelam Raaj, Times of India, Jan 29th 2016
‘Urge to Spin a Story’, Salima Hashmi, Eye Still Seeks, Penguin Studio, 2015
“Art made Free”, Zarmeene Shah, The Herald, Annual 2014
“Visibility of Disappearance”, Quddus Mirza, The News on Sunday, June 10, 12
“The Conspiracy of Silence”, Aasim Akhtar, The Friday Times, Nov 2011
“Views of a Familiar World”, Atteqa Ali, The News on Sunday, May 2011
“Global Perspectives”, Salwat Ali, Dawn, April 17, 2011
“The Practitioner” Iftikar Dadi, Herald Jan 2011
“Execution of an Idea”, Quddus Mirza, The News on Sunday, Nov 2010
“Off the Wall”, Atteqa Ali, Journal of Contemporary Arts and Culture 01
“Modern Moments”, Somak Ghoshal, The Telegraph Calcutta , July 31st 2010
“Exhibition at NCA Gallery”, The Dawn, June 2010
“Emperor’s New Clothes”, William Pym, Asia Art Pacific, Nov/Dec. 2009
’In the Beginning there was the word’, Sheema Zain, Business Recorder, Nov 2009
‘Review: Emperors New Clothes’, Atteqa Ali; Art, Etc. Vol 1, No. 2, Oct 2009
“The Expanded Stage”, Asim Akhtar, ’26.04.08’ catalogue, April 2008
‘Out on the Art Bus’, Emanuel Sarfraz, The Nation Sunday Plus, Nov 30, 08
‘Between Black and White’, Chris Lord, Time Out Dubai, Oct 2-9, 08
“Lets Talk”, Valarie Grove, Libas Magazine, Vol 21, 09 Issue 4
‘Sounding off through art’, Layla Haroon, Khaleej Times, Oct 26, 08
‘Clothed in Art’, Atteqa Ali, The News on Sunday, March 2, 08
‘Art for the sake of people”, Quddus Mirza, The News on Sunday, April 22, 07
‘Self-expression of a different kind’, Bibigul, The Dawn Gallery, Feb 24, 07
‘The Language in Art”, Quddus Mirza, The News on Sunday. Feb11, 07
‘Artists relying on text,’ Saira Dar, The Dawn, Feb 03, 07
‘Spinning Tales with words’, Emanuel Sarfraz, The Nation, Feb 1 07
‘Miniature delight: Ayesha Jatoi’, Nayare Ali, Deccan Chronicle, Jan 11,07
13 Satellites: Public Art in Lahore, Atteqa Ali, Nukta Magazine, Vol 1, Issue 2, 2006
