Mohsin Shafi
Artist
Mohsin Shafi is an interdisciplinary artist based in Lahore, Pakistan. His practice takes advantage of personal and collective archives attained from various sources, offering multiple perspectives that reveal entrenched socio-political contradictions in pakistani society. The imagery in his visuals is observant, poignant and often darkly humorous. Through his works, he probes the tight spaces between lucidity and madness, intimacy and alienation, the fantasies and anxieties, desire and doubts, attachment and disaffection, love and hate, and the living and the absent.
In the last decade, Shafi has extensively showcased his work throughout all prominent galleries in Pakistan. He has exhibited at various art fairs, gallery exhibitions, travelling museum shows, and at alternative space displays around the globe. He is recipient of various residencies including 1646 In Denhaag – The Netherlands , Alter Mondial in Basel – Switzerland awarded by Pro Helvetia, The Growlery in San Francisco – U.S.A., The Rondo Studios in Graz – Austria and Pakistan’s significant Vasl Artist Resdiency in Karachi. Besides being part of significant private collections in pakistan , his work is in the permanent collection of The Museum of Sacred Art – The Belgian foundation based in Brussels – Belgium and at the Books Art Department of Mills College, San Francisco, United States.
Among prominent practice and accomplishments, he is an active member of the ‘Awami Art Collective’. Shafi holds a Masters degree in visual arts and a bachelor’s degree in visual communication, both from the National College of Arts, Lahore.