Mahwish Chishty

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Mahwish Chishty
Born1980 (age 43–44)
Lahore, Pakistan
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Awards Guggenheim Fellow (2017)

Mahwish Kamran Chishty (born 1980) is a Pakistani-American artist who works in painting and installation art. A 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, she is also currently Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. [1]

Biography

Mahwish Kamran Chishty [2] was born in 1980 in Lahore, Pakistan, and raised in Saudi Arabia. [3] Originally trained in Mughal painting and Persian miniature, [4] she was educated at the National College of Arts, where she studied miniature painting and got her BFA in 2004, and the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD), where she got her MFA in Studio Arts in 2008. [5] After remaining briefly at UMD as a teaching assistant (2006-2008; 2011-2012), [5] she later taught as a lecturer at Montgomery College (2011-2013) and George Washington University (2012-2013), before moving to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2013-2016) and Harold Washington College (2014-2016). [5] In 2016, she became an assistant professor at Kent State University, and in 2019 she became an associate professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst. [5]

Chishty's work includes installation art and paintings. [6] [7] Her work was part of the 2004 exhibition Contemporary Miniature Paintings from Pakistan at Fukuoka Asian Art Museum. [8] In 2015, she was a City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events Artist-in-Residence at the Chicago Cultural Center, as well as a Yaddo fellow. [9] [10] In 2016, she had a solo exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, focusing on the impact of drone strikes in Pakistan, particularly the region around the Durand Line, and drawing inspiration from truck art in South Asia. [11] Matt Breen of Time Out London gave it four out of five stars, saying that "these glittering, troubling little conundrums ask questions about what role art can play in a world beset by violence and war". [12] She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017. [13] Her work is in the permanent collections of the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum [2] and Imperial War Museum. [14]

She holds American and Pakistani dual citizenship. [15]

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  1. ↑ "Mahwish Chishty : Department of Art". UMass Amherst. Retrieved November 14, 2024.
  2. 1 2 "［ID:4854］ Step in, Step out III". Fukuoka Asian Art Museum. Retrieved November 13, 2024.
  3. ↑ "Bio". Mahwish Chishty. Retrieved November 13, 2024.
  4. ↑ Utter, Douglas Max (May 19, 2017). "Death from the Skies: Meet 2017 Guggenheim Fellow / KSU Associate Professor Mahwish Chishty". Collective Arts Network - CAN Journal. Retrieved November 13, 2024.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Resume". Mahwish Chishty. Retrieved November 13, 2024.
  6. ↑ "Installations". Mahwish Chishty. Retrieved November 13, 2024.
  7. ↑ "Paintings". Mahwish Chishty. Retrieved November 13, 2024.
  8. ↑ "Contemporary Asian Artist III: Contemporary Miniature Paintings from Pakistan". Asia Art Archive. Retrieved November 13, 2024.
  9. ↑ "Adebukola Bodunrin, Cecil McDonald, Jr. and Mahwish Chishty: Artists in Residence". www.chicago.gov. Retrieved November 13, 2024.
  10. ↑ Yaddo Annual Report 2015 (PDF). Yaddo. p. 8. Retrieved November 13, 2024.
  11. ↑ Ryder, Mary (December 7, 2016). "Beauty and callousness: the world of drone art". openDemocracy. Retrieved November 13, 2024.
  12. ↑ Breen, Matt (September 12, 2016). "IWM Contemporary: Mahwish Chishty". Time Out. Retrieved November 13, 2024.
  13. ↑ "Mahwish Chishty". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved November 13, 2024.
  14. ↑ "By the Moonlight". Imperial War Museums. Retrieved November 13, 2024.
  15. ↑ "Danyore: New Work by Mahwish Chishty : Herter Art Gallery". UMass Amherst. Retrieved November 13, 2024.
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