Rabbya Naseer
Artist
Rabbya Naseer (b. 1984) is a multidisciplinary artist engaged in making, curating, writing and teaching of art. She has a BFA from NCA, Lahore (2006) and is a recipient of Fulbright scholarship for Masters in Art Theory & Criticism from SAIC, Chicago (2010). She has been teaching graduate and undergraduate courses at NCA and BNU (Lahore) since 2010 and has also taught at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia (2015 & 2017). Naseer’s practice is broadly concerned with examining the parallels between Art and everyday-life. ‘Work’ as a material entity is only a by-product of her attempts to understand lived ‘experiences’ and ‘encounters’, as well as the structures that contain those experiences/encounters. Her works and writings have appeared in various local/international publications. She has participated in exhibitions, residencies and conferences in Pakistan, India, USA, UK, Dubai, China, Japan, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Australia & Potugal. Alongside her independent practice, Naseer has been maintaining her collaborative practice with Hurmat-ul-Ain since 2007. She is currently working on developing an archive for performance art in Pakistan and is looking for people interested in publishing it (*wink-wink)