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Abdullah Qureshi





Abdullah Qureshi is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and educator. Within his practice, he is interested in using painting, filmmaking, and collaborative methodologies to address personal histories, traumatic pasts, and sexuality. His ongoing doctoral project, Mythological Migrations: Imagining Queer Muslim Utopias, examines formations of queer identity and resistance in Muslim migratory contexts. Qureshi has exhibited internationally and held numerous positions at cultural and educational institutions in Pakistan, the United Kingdom, and Canada. In 2017, Qureshi received the Art and International Cooperation fellowship at Zurich University of the Arts, and in 2018, a research fellowship at the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research, Boston. He is currently a Doctoral Candidate, supported by Kone Foundation, at Aalto University, Espoo.

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Doctoral Candidate, Aalto University, Espoo

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Qureshi's artworks have been exhibited and screened in North America, Europe, and Asia, including at the Paul Mellon Centre, London; South Asia Institute, Chicago; Berlinische Galerie, Berlin; Ateneum Museum, Helsinki; and SOMA Arts Center, San Francisco.

He has also presented international artist talks, papers, and lectures at Concordia University, Montreal; University of California, Irvine; the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU), Prague; the National Art Education Association Conference, New York; and the Nordic Migration Research Conference, Helsinki.

His articles are published in books and peer-reviewed journals, including Pak*stan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere by the Duke University Press. He has received fellowships and grants from the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research, Boston, and the Kone Foundation, Finland. 


Qureshi is currently working on a 9-month Explore and Create project funded by the Canada Council for the Arts to research and develop a new body of artistic work that re-approaches specific Urdu literature and poetry to portray intimate encounters, dreamscapes, and communities of kinship and belonging from South Asian queer Muslim migratory perspectives.




 

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