Khadim Ali

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Khadim Ali (* 1978 in Quetta ) is a Pakistani painter .

life and work

Khadim Ali was born in Pakistan to an Afghan refugee family belonging to the Hazara minority. From 1998 to 1999 Ali studied wall painting and calligraphy in Tehran . He completed his studies in miniature painting at the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan, with a bachelor's degree . After several artist in residence in Japan, he moved to Sydney in 2010, where he completed his Master of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales in 2012 .

The shāhnāme , mythical stories that the Persian poet Abū ʾl-Qāsim Firdausī (940-1020) wrote down, are the starting point of the work of Khadim Ali. Through his paintings, these texts are embedded in a contemporary context.

In 2006 Khadim Ali participated in the 5th Asia-Pacific Triennial, in 2009 in the Biennale di Venezia and in 2012 in dOCUMENTA (13) .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Khadim Ali. Retrieved February 11, 2019
  2. ^ Guggenheim Khadim Ali accessed on February 11, 2019
  3. ↑ dOCUMENTA (13). The accompanying book / The Guidebook. Catalog 3/3., Page 140, 2012, ISBN 978-3-7757-2954-3
personal data
SURNAME Ali, Khadim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pakistani painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Quetta