' I am the enemy you killed my friend'

Biography
1976 Born in Kuwait, lives and works in Berlin and Lahore
Assistant lecturer, Universität der Künste, Berlin
Visiting faculty, National College of Arts, Lahore

Education
2004 Meisterschüler, Universität der Künste, Berlin
2002 M.A (Honors) Visual Arts, National College of Arts, Lahore
1999 BFA (Sculpture), National College of Arts, Lahore

Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings

2004
Aar Paar 3, Lahore | Karachi | Mumbai
Meisterschüler Prize Exhibition, Universität der Künste, Berlin
Art from Pakistan, House of Parliament, London
Open Studios, Triangle Artists Workshop, NY (catalog)
Miniatures from Pakistan, Fukuoka Museum of Asian Art, Fukuoka (catalog)
8th Symposium Junge Kunst, Gütersloh
FreiRäume, FreiStil e.V., Berlin (catalog)
Love It or Leave It, 5th Cetinje Biennial, Cetinje (catalog)
Creative Insecurity, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto (catalog)
Along the X-Axis: Digital Art From India and Pakistan, New Delhi
Playing with a Loaded Gun, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (catalog)

2003
Junger Westen 2003, Kunsthalle Rechlinghausen, Rechlinghausen (catalog)
Peace with India, Neher Kinarey, Lahore
Miniatures Pakistanaises, Maison d'Art Contemporain Chaillioux, Paris | Zurich (catalog)
Contemporary Miniature From India/Pakistan, Fine Art Resource Gallery, Berlin (catalog)
Third Karafilm Festival, Karachi (catalog)2002
Painting Over the Lines: Five Contemporary Artists from Pakistan, Indo Center, NY | York Quay Gallery, Toronto (catalog)
Hamra Abbas and Nosheen Saeed, two person show, Canvas Art Gallery, Karachi
Around the Miniatures, Canvas Art Gallery, Karachi2001
First Karafilm Festival, Karachi (catalog)
Mateela Film Festival, Lahore

Solo Exhibitions

2002
Art and Ashes, Gallery NCA, Lahore

2001
More Smoke Than Fire, Gallery NCA, Lahore
Awards/Scholarships and Residencies

2004
Meisterschüler Prize, Universität der Künste, Berlin
Triangle Artists Workshop, NY
8th Symposium Junge Kunst, Gütersloh

2003
Fellowship Award , Vermont Studio Center, VT

2002
DAAD Scholarship, Germany

2000
Shakir Ali Award (highest merit award), National College of Arts, Lahore

1997 - 2002
PEP Scholarship, Lahore

1995 - 1998
Merit scholarship, National College of Arts, Lahore