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Ali Kazim |
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Kazim is best known for his paintings; multilayered constructions using watercolour pigments. His unusual technique produces a layered textured effect not usually identified with this media. Beginning his career as a cinema hoardings painter in small-town Pakistan, Kazim is an artist of exquisite technical ability. His subjects are often men, their features rendered to emphasize their Dravidian heritage. Kazim’s images are deeply intriguing and loaded with incongruity, offering us, somewhat unsettling, glimpses into other lives. In his newest body of work, Kazim experiments with goatskins and leather to create objects and prints.
Kazim graduated with a BFA from Lahore’s National College of Arts in 2002 and was artist in residence at Art Omi in New York in 2006. He won a ROSL residency award in 2005. In December 2007, Cartwright Hall Gallery, Bradford held a survey show of his work. Kazim’s work has been exhibited in Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and the US. His next exhibition is in Delhi in April 2008. Kazim lives and works in Lahore. His work is in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane (Australia) and the Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi.
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