Madyha J. Leghari
Curriculum Vitae
madyha.leghari@gmail.com
www.madyhaleghari.com
EDUCATION:
2016 – 2018 | Masters of Fine Arts (Media Arts: Photography) | Massachusetts College of Art and Design, cross-registered for 9cr. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
2009 – 2013 | Bachelors of Fine Arts (Printmaking) | National College of Arts, Lahore.
2006 – 2008 | CIE Advanced level | Lahore Grammar School, Defense
CURRENT POSITION:
Jan 2013 – Present | Visual Artist
Mar 2013 – Present | Art Critic
Aug 2019 – Present | Visiting Faculty | Beaconhouse National University & National College of Arts | Lahore
Bylines in ArtNow Pakistan, Dawn Newspaper, The Daily Times and Sanat Initiative Publications.
PAST APPOINTMENTS:
Aug 2018 – Aug 2019 | Assistant Professor & Program Coordinator for Graduate Studies| Beaconhouse National University
Jan 2018 – May 2018 | Adjunct Faculty | Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Feb 2015 – May 2016 | Visiting Faculty | National College of Arts
Sep 2015 – May 2016 | Visiting Lecturer | Beaconhouse National University
Jan 2015 – Aug 2016 | Research and Publication Assistant| Rashid Rana Studios
Assisted with the project ‘My East is Your West’ by Rashid Rana and Shilpa Gupta as part of the collateral event at the 56th Venice Biennale. Research and publication coordination
Jul 2014 – Jan 2015 | Project Coordinator | Lahore Biennale Foundation
Organized structure and authored the manifesto defining the orientation, aims and objectives of the organization. Offered creative, technical and managerial support for various aspects of setting up the Foundation and organizing the Lahore Biennale
EXHIBITIONS:
Screenings and Film Festivals
2021 ‘Istanbul Experimental Film Festival’ at Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey.
2021 ‘On Commons - Video and Experimental Film Event’ Sea Foundation, Tilburg, Netherlands
2021 ‘Mimesis Documentary Festival’, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
2021 ‘Antimatter [Media Art]’, Victoria BC, Canada
2021 ‘17th Athens Digital Arts Festival’, Athens, Greece
2021 ‘33th Girona Film Festival’, Girona, Catalonia, Spain
2021 ‘Hive International Short Film Days’, Berlin, Germany
2021 ‘9th International Video Poetry Festival’, Athens, Greece
2021 ‘SPHERE → WORLD CINEMA CARNIVAL', Kolkata, India
2021 ‘International Kansk Video Festival’, Moscow Russia
2021 ‘OASFF’ Minsk, Belarus
2021 ‘Kino pleme / Live Soundtrack’, Belgrade, Serbia
2021 ‘El FESTIVAL de Sci-Fi, Terror y Fantasía’, Bogotá, Colombia
2021 ‘Kinam Festival Internacional De Cine Differente’, Mexico City, Mexico
2021 ‘Cine@Art Festival’, Ancient Corinth, Greece
2021 ‘Patmos Cinema Festival’, Patmos, Greece
2021 ‘Maracay International Film and Video Festival’, Maracay, Venezuela
2020 ‘Maldito Festival de Videopoesia’, Albacete, Spain
2020 ’Nottingham Arts Mela’, Nottingham UK
2020 ‘South Asian Film Festival’, Bennington College, USA
2020 ‘ÍCARO Festival Internacional de Cine en Centroamérica’, Guatemala City, Guatemala
2020 ‘Helios Sun Poetry Film Festival’, Mexico City, Mexico
2020 ‘Florence Film Awards’, Honorable Mention, Florence, Italy
2020 ‘AltFF Alternative Film Festival’, Best Cast Award, Toronto, Ontario
2020 ‘Deep Cut Film Festival’, Toronto, Canada
2020 ‘FlickFair’ August 2020, Official Selection, USA
2020 ‘Blacksphere Festival’ 2020, Finalist, Praha, Czech Republic
2019 ‘Unmaking History’ at Research and Publication Center, Lahore
Solo
2016 ‘Notes Towards Silence’ at Rohtas Gallery, Lahore.
Publication
2016 ‘The Stasis Striving For Effect’ at Rohtas Gallery, Lahore.
Group
2021 ‘Yeah, I’m doing great’ at MassArt x SoWa, Boston, USA.
2021 ‘EART: A manifesto of possibilities - in collaboration with Rashid Rana’, curated by Alnoor Mitha, Manchester International Festival
2021 ‘Spinning and Unspinning: The Art of The Storyteller’, curated by Laila Mehreen Rahman, O Art Space, Lahore
2021 ‘Left a Mark’, curated by Zahra Khan, Satrang Art Gallery, Islamabad
2021 ‘Mansion Artist Residency Exhibition', Lahore
2020 ‘Streaming Silences’ Popup by TheRoadSideArt, Lahore
2019 ‘Islamabad Art Festival’ at the National Art Gallery, Islamabad
2019 ‘Unmaking History’ at Research and Publication Center, Lahore
2019 ‘From the Hills to the Sea’ at AAN Gandhara Art Space, Karachi
2018 ‘MFA Thesis Show’ at Bakalar & Paine Galleries, Boston
2018 ‘In the Beginning was the Word’ at O Art Space, Lahore
2018 ‘Future Debris’ at Zahoor-ul-Aklaq gallery, Lahore
2017 ‘Expanded Landscape’ at Doran Gallery, Boston
2016 ‘What Belongs to You’ at Sanat Initiative, Karachi.
2015 ‘Till Human Voices Wake Us’ at Canvas Gallery, Karachi.
2014 ‘Sydney-Lahore: Prints from the Collections of Cicada Press and Saeed Akhtar Studio’ at Saeed Akhtar Studio, Lahore.
2014 ‘Murree Museum Residency Show’ at the Murree Museum and Archives, Murree
2013 ‘In a room/I trap/ the absence of the room’ at Taseer Art Gallery, Lahore
2013 ‘Limbs – Anatomy of Images’ Attic Studio at Alhamra Art Centre, Lahore
2013 ‘Shehr ke Naam Khat’ (Letter to the City) at the Lahore Literary Festival, Alharma Arts Complex, Lahore
2013 ‘Degree Show – (Un)comfortable Silences’ at the National College of Arts, Lahore
2012 ‘Attic Studio’ at Alhamra Art Centre, Lahore
2011 ‘Correspondence’ – A three way art exchange program between the National College of Arts, Harvard University, and Universitat Mozarteum.
2010 ‘Young Artists Exhibition’ at Alhamra Art Centre, Lahore
RESIDENCIES & AWARDS:
2021 Vasl Fiction Writing Mentorship, Karachi
2021 Mantiq of the Mantis Artist Residency, Lahore
2021 Mansion Artist Residency, Lahore
2020 Delta Research Placement at the John Latham Archive at FlatTime House, London
2020 MassArt Teaching Residency at BRS China (upcoming)
2020 Visiting Artist Residency at the Siena Art Institute
2016 Fulbright Scholarship for Masters
2016 MassArt Dean’s Scholarship
2014 Murree Museum Artist Residency
2011 Merit Scholarship at the National College of Arts
2010 Merit Scholarship at the National College of Arts
INVITED TALKS:
2021 ‘Teaching Projects in Art and Design’ at ConversationsTP, Pakistan
2020 Contemporary Pakistani Short Film: Experimentations and Innovations at PictureGhar, LUMS, Lahore
2020 Plasma: Meet the Artists, Helios Sun Poetry Film Festival, Mexico City
2020 Artist Talk at the Siena Art Institute
2019 ‘Para-sites and Para-fictions’ at the National History Museum, Lahore
2019 ‘Exit Strategy’ at the National Art Gallery, Islamabad
2019 ‘Death of the Discipline’, convened, presented and moderated at the Beaconhouse National University
2017 ‘Tea Party: Promises to Keep’ at ApexArt, NewYork
2015 ‘Khayaal Festival’ at the Alhamra Arts Council
SELECT TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Studio Courses
Contextuality: Theory and Practice
Photography Electives
35mm Black and White Photography
Printmaking Major I, II and IV
Drawing I, III and IV
Art History and Theory Courses
Beyond Art Making (Senior Year)
Contemporary Art Seminar II, III and IV
Art in the Age of Camera
20th Century Art I and II
Survey of World Art History (Foundation course)
Global Modernities: Art in an Age of Network
History of Ideas (Graduate)
Integrated Graduate Colloquium I, II and III (Graduate)
Art Education
Research and Professional Practice (Graduate)
History and Philosophy of Art Education (Graduate)
PROPOSED/IN-PROGRESS COURSES
Sleep and Leisure, studio
Evidence in Creative Inquiry, studio
Human Mobility, theory
Investigating Silence, theory
INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE:
Core member of the Curriculum Committee at Beaconhouse National University which reflects on and recommends changes to the programs in School of Visual Arts and Design. In this capacity, worked on redesigning the Foundation Program and was involved in launching a new program titled BA IEDA (Interdisciplinary Expanded Design and Art)
Coordinated for two graduate programs: MA Art Education (low res) and an MA Art & Design program. Responsibilities included academic and administrative tasks as well as developing future directions for the program. Organized a symposium titled, ‘Death of the Discipline’.
Organized various visiting artist talks and guest workshops at the Beaconhouse National University including lectures by Dr Shabnam Khan, Prof. Salima Hashmi and others.
Curriculum Committee member at the National College of Arts, Lahore
SELECTED PRESS:
‘The Artist’s Artist’ by Rashid Rana in Artforum, Best of 2016 issue.
The Enigma of Silence’ by Quddus Mirza in The News on Sunday
‘An Estimation of Silence’by Sarah Zahid in Nigaah Art
‘Spotlight Artist – Madyha Leghari’ by Shameen Arshad in The Missing Slate
‘No Man’s Land’ by Dua Abbas in ArtNow Pakistan
‘What Belongs to You’ in Nigaah Art
‘Participation Issues’ by Veera Rustomji in ArtNow Pakistan
‘Who Does Art Belong To?’ by Nimra Khan in Dawn Newspaper
Featured in ‘For Art’s Sake’ in GT Magazine
‘Till Human Voices Wake Us’ in Nigaah Art
‘The hills are alive’ by Sumbal Iftikhar in The Friday Times
Vasl Art, Online Newsletter, Jan - May 2014 # 28
‘The Murree Museum Artists’ Residency’ in HELLO! Pakistan
‘In a Room I Trap the Absence of a Room’ by Dua Abbas in ArtNow Pakistan
SELECTED WRITING: (All texts available on request)
2018 ‘The Camera as Witness’ | ArtNow Pakistan
2017 ‘The Past and the Future of the Past | ArtNow Pakistan
2017 ‘On The Political Potential of Art’ | ArtNow Pakistan
2016 ‘The Artist Statement’ | ArtNow Pakistan
2016 ‘The Residency; as Retreat, Relational and Relief’ | ArtNow Pakistan
2016 ‘Rashid Rana’ | ArtNow Pakistan
2015 ‘Neverland’ | ‘Itwar Ka Din’Catalogue | Sanat Initiative
2015 ‘Rosy Dreams With High Walls’ | ArtNow Pakistan and Dawn Newspaper
2015 ‘Shafqat, Shama, Shahzad and Brandon’ | ArtNow Pakistan
2015 ‘Art and Text: A Cursory Overview’ | ArtNow Pakistan
2015 ‘In Conversation With Rashid Rana’ | ArtNow Pakistan
2015 ‘Strand-ed: Ali Kazim at Rohtas Gallery’ | ArtNow Pakistan
2014 ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’ | ArtNow Pakistan
2014 ‘Imagine What Language Looks Like | ‘Kutubkhana’ Catalogue | Sanat Initiative
2014 ‘ Kapray ka Insan’ | ‘They Live by Night’ Catalogue | Sanat Initiative
2014 ‘Filling Greys: Ayaz Jokhio’ |ArtNow Pakistan
2014 ‘The Collector Calling’ | ArtNow Pakistan
2014 ‘Some Impressions from the Murree Museum Artist Residency’ | ArtNow Pakistan
2014 ‘Disparate Strokes’ | ArtNow Pakistan
2014 ‘In Conversation With Afshar Malik’| ArtNow Pakistan
2014 ‘Other Spaces’ | ArtNow Pakistan
2014 ‘Mehmood Hassan Rumi’ | ArtNow Pakistan
2014 ‘Seen From Here, There, and Nowhere’ | ArtNow Pakistan
2014 ‘Julius John’ | ArtNow Pakistan
2014 ‘NCA Thesis Preview’ | ArtNow Pakistan
2013 ‘Jononi’ | ArtNow Pakistan
2013 ‘Homelands’| ArtNow Pakistan
2013 ‘Elegies, Effigies’ | ArtNow Pakistan
2013 ‘Modern Life’ | ArtNow Pakistan
2013 ‘Political Patterns’ | ArtNow Pakistan
2013 ‘Here and Now’ | ArtNow Pakistan
2013 ‘Ijaz Ul Hassan: Five Decades of Painting’ | ArtNow Pakistan
2013 ‘New Works by Maryam Rahman Agha and Nida Bangash’ | ArtNow Pakistan
2013 ‘Art – A New Approach’| ArtNow Pakistan
Email —
madyha.leghari@gmail.com