Adeela Suleman
Karachi, PakistanThe central theme of the work of Pakistani artist Adeela Suleman is the problem of form. Form can be ambiguous, contain innumerable meanings or be nothing more than self-referential. In other cases form can remind us of previously encountered forms or stimulate our imagination. Above all, form is crucial to stories that dare call into question the conventional language of art. Adeela Suleman's work also underscores the importance of "finding" an object through the artistic process. The "found" object immediately assumes the role of protagonist in the mental and aesthetic space of the creation; the "found" object multiplies itself, generating artistic value through its cloning process. The daily object, through its multiplication and assembly, becomes the delegate of new, exciting inner visions.
Biography
Born 1970, Karachi, Pakistan.
Education
1999
BFA in Sculpture 1999, with Distinction in Sculpture and over all distinction, Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi, Pakistan.
1995
MA in International Relations 1995, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan.
Solo Exhibitions
2009
Asia Society Show, New York, USA
Emperors new clothing- Talwar Gallery, New York, USA
February 2009: Canvas Gallery, Karachi
2008
Preview - Canvas Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
November 2008: Rohtas Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan
2007
Confinement- Commune Artist Colony , Karachi, Pakistan. 14th-19th February.
Group Exhibitions
2009
Steel Life- Curated by Elisabetta Pozzetti, La Triennale di Milano. Milan, Italy
Going Places- Group show at Canvas Gallery. Karachi, Pakistan
Faculty Show 4- IVS Gallery. Karachi, Pakistan
Pulse Contemporary art Fair, New York, USA.
Bologna Art Fair, Bologna, Italy
Dubai Art Fair, Dubai.
Starring the Artists- Self portraits from Paksitan, IVS Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan.
Failing States, Two person show at Aicon, London, UK
2008
November 2008: Tradition, Technique, Technology II - Contemporary artists from Pakistan. Aicon Gallery, Palo Alto. USA
December 2008: Elementa Gallery, Dubai
Pakistani Art Exhibition, Christies, London, UK
Video Loop '08, Barcelona, Spain
Artefiera Bologna, Italy
Women of Light, galerie davide gallo, Berlin, Germany
2007
Articulating The Subtext - Alliance Francaise, Karachi, Pakistan
Preview Berlin, Berlin, Germany
An intensity of Space & Substance - National Art Gallery, Islamabad, Pakistan
Love, National Art Gallery, Islamabad, Pakistan
2006
Flights of Fancy- Royaat Gallery, Lahore. Pakistan.
Body-Amin Gulgee Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan.
Calligraphy- Amin Gulgee gallery, Karachi, Pakistan.
2005
Urban/Culture - CP Open Biennale 2005. Jakarta, Indonesia.
Beyond Borders, National Gallery of Modern Art, Bombay, India.
2004
Spielen mit geladenem Gewehr (Playing with the loaded gun), Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel, Germany.
2003
Twenty-four Shots per second, Kara Film Fest, Karachi, Pakistan.
43rd Premio Suzzara, Associazione galleria Del Premio Suzzara, Italy.
Playing with the loaded Gun, Apex Art, New York, U.S.A.
Group Show, Canvas Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan.
2002
Imagined Workshop-2nd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka, Japan.
2001
The Thakhti Show, Freer Hall, Karachi, Pakistan.
2000
Art Festival: Urban Voices, Karachi, Pakistan.
Bibliography
2009
Steel Life- Curated by Elisabetta Pozzetti, La Triennale di Milano, Milan Italy
An Uncertain world- by Laila Mehreen Rahman. Nukta Art Magazine, Vol 4.Issue # 1991-0304
Moulded To Perfection- by Quddus Mirza. Encore- The news On Sunday 7th Jun e2009.
Plaint & lyrical by Salwat Ali. DAWN Newspaper March 8th 2009
Art of Surprises by Quddus Mirza. Encore, The NEWS on Sunday. March 1st 2009
Pakistan Report-On the Verge by Benjamin Genocchio, Art In America magazine. January 2009
The New York Time- Art in Review by Karen Rosenberg. 1st January 2009
2008
Meaning Skin deep. Marium Qureshi. The Daily Times. November 17th.
Altered times .Quddus Mirza. The NEWS. November 23rd
2007
Adeela Suleman-Confinement. Amra Ali. NuktaArt., Vol.2,One
Nuts and Bolts, Nafisa Rizvi. The Herald, vol.38, Number 03
Creative Spark, Alia Bilgirami, NewsLine, vol.19
Fittings into Art. Quddus Mirza for the catalogue of the solo show.
Urban Hues. Qurat ul Siddiqui. Dawn Gallery, 24th February.
Trash to Treasure. Umbreen Beg-Mirza. Friday Times. 23rd February-1st march.
The Nuts and Bolts, and silencers of Lovers. Daily Times Karachi, February 15th.
2006
Video Art: Out in the Open. Salwat Ali. Dawn Gallery, August 12th.
Moving Towards a Movement. Quddus Mirza. The News, 27th August.
Double Take. Salwat Ali. Newsline Magazine, April.
Artists Voices: Body. Oxford University Press.
Artists voices: Calligraphy. Oxford University Press.
Curtain Call-CP Biennale. Carla Bianpoen. The Jakarta Post. 23rd October.
2005
Impassioned Voices Art as social commentary in Pakistan. Atteqa Ali. Art Asia Pacific. Fall 2005, No 46.
Art, beyond Borders, Nancy Adajania, The Hindu, India's National Newspaper. April 10th.
Urban/Culture - CP Open Biennale 2005.Jakarta, Indonesia.
2004
Art in the Time of Globalization, Amra Ali, Art India, vol.ix, issue iv.
Women artists and Institution-Builders are Agents of Positive Change, Salima Hashmi, Art India, vol.ix, issue iv.
Different Kinds of Violence, Atteqa Ali, Art India, vol.ix, issue iv.p.
Caravan Cafe'- Art From Central Asia, Enrico Mascelloni.
43rd Premio Suzzara. Curated by Martina Corgnati, Nicola Marras, and Enrico Mascelloni.
2002
Unveiling the Visible- Lives and Works of Women Artist of Pakistan, Salima Hashmi.
Imagined Workshop- 2nd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale.
Documents of Art Exchange Program-2nd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale.
Chali ban than kay Dulhania. Herald.
Feminity for Fukuoka, Quddus Mirza, Encore, The News march 17th.
Fabricating Femininity, Quddus Mirza, Art India Magazine. vol VII issue 1.
2001
The Takhti Exhibition. Curated by Sheherzade Alam.
2000
Urban Voices IV.
1999
Art of the "New", Muna Siddiqui. Encore, The News December 19th.
That's just the way it is
Steel drain covers and nuts and bolts
91x91x91 cm
2007
Parallel Conflict
Motor cycle steel silencers, steel drain covers, steel shower water pipes, nuts and bolts, powder coating paint
218x17 cm
2007
Open Confinement
Steel drain covers, nuts and bolts
178x102x89 cm
2006
Untitled
Powder coated, steel, drain covers
Variable dimension
2007
