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Abdullah Qureshi (born 1987) is a Queer Muslim Pakistani cis-male artist, social activist, [1] curator, educator, and cultural producer. [2] Qureshi utilizes paint, watercolor, [3] film, [4] and faceless depictions of his male friends [5] to capture his personal histories, trauma, and childhood memories surrounding his identity as a Queer Muslim Pakistani man. [1] [6] Qureshi explores his identity in his work within an Abstract Expressionist style [7] using large canvases. [8]
Qureshi was born in 1987 in Lahore, Pakistan. In 2010, he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art from the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London where he continued his enrollment for a Master of Arts degree in Fine Art. In 2017, he attended and completed his Ph.D. from Aalto University. [2] During the fall of 2019, he became a visiting graduate student at the Centre for Feminist Research in York University.[ citation needed]
He moved back to Lahore, where he created visual work responding to the intersectional identities of the queer, Pakistani, and Muslim culture. There, he co-founded a gallery for artists and designers who were interested in destabilizing institutional boundaries called “39K”.[ citation needed]
Qureshi lives in Helsinki, Finland. [6]
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Abdullah Qureshi (born 1987) is a Queer Muslim Pakistani cis-male artist, social activist, [1] curator, educator, and cultural producer. [2] Qureshi utilizes paint, watercolor, [3] film, [4] and faceless depictions of his male friends [5] to capture his personal histories, trauma, and childhood memories surrounding his identity as a Queer Muslim Pakistani man. [1] [6] Qureshi explores his identity in his work within an Abstract Expressionist style [7] using large canvases. [8]
Qureshi was born in 1987 in Lahore, Pakistan. In 2010, he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art from the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London where he continued his enrollment for a Master of Arts degree in Fine Art. In 2017, he attended and completed his Ph.D. from Aalto University. [2] During the fall of 2019, he became a visiting graduate student at the Centre for Feminist Research in York University.[ citation needed]
He moved back to Lahore, where he created visual work responding to the intersectional identities of the queer, Pakistani, and Muslim culture. There, he co-founded a gallery for artists and designers who were interested in destabilizing institutional boundaries called “39K”.[ citation needed]
Qureshi lives in Helsinki, Finland. [6]