Selected Exhibitions, Talks, Performances

2025

Sada, Sada, Konsthall C, Stockholm.
Beloved Waters, Stroom, Den Haag.
Your Ears Later Will Know To Listen, Nottingham Contemporary. London.

2024

Ways of the Forest, Colomboscope, Colombo.
28 North and Parallel Weathers, Khoj Studios, Delhi.
The Deluge & the Tree, B7L9, Tunis.
Manzar: Art & Architecture from Pakistan 1940s to Today, Qatar Art Mill Museum, Doha.
Moving Images, Jameel Art Prize, V&A Museum, London.

2023

Cosmovisions on Land & Entangled Futures, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead.
House of Kal, nGbK, Berlin.
Open Studios, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht.

2022

Harbour Failures, Living Arts Museum, Reykjavik.
How Will You Ascertain Time, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin.
Mardin Bienali, 5th International Mardin Bienali, Mardin.
Proposals for a Memorial to Partition, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai.
17th Istanbul Biennial (with Topological Atlas), Istanbul.
Unraveling The (Under) Development Complex, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin.

2021

ON-line, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart. (Web)
Tenderness Kit, Saraab, Karachi. (Web)
Junctions21. PACT Zollverein. Essen, Germany.

2020

Unhomed, Upssala Art Museum, Sweden.

2019

Bodybuilding, Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai.
Witnessing Change, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore.
Unmaking History, Research and Development Center, Lahore.
From the Hills to the Sea, AAN Gandhara Art Space, Karachi.

2018

Cultivating Wastelands, Rossi and Rossi, London.
Who Gets to Talk About Whom?, AAN Gandhara Art Space, Karachi.
groundtruthing, AAN Gandhara Art Space, Karachi.

2017

Publishing Against The Grain. Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa.
You’re Killing the Mountain, Al-Hamra Arts Council, Lahore.
After the Wildly Improbable, HKW, Berlin, Germany.
We ate the birds, Koel Art Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan.
Taqseem, Koel Art Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan.

2016

Urbanities, Al Hamra Art Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan.
How We Mark The Land, Gandhara Art Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan.
Exhausted Geographies, VM Art Gallery, Islamabad, Pakistan.

Selected Performances & Talks

2025
Sada, Sada. Rewire Festival. The Hague.
Archive as Zikr, V&A Museum. London. (talk)

2024
Waterways, Hyundai-Tate Research Center: Transnational. Tate Modern. 2024. States of Emergence: Land After Property and Catastrophe, Creative Time Summit. BAM, New York. 2024.
Ephemeral River Archives, Archives of the Disappeared: Discipline and Method Amidst Ruin, University of Cambridge, UK. 2024

2023
Mehran, Mitr, Exist Festival, Cafe Oto, London. 2023.
A Ubiquitous Wetness, Urgency Intensive, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands 2023.

2022
Ruptured Histories: Critical Exchanges on Decolonisation. (with Shahana Rajani) Karachi Biennale. Karachi, Pakistan. 2022.

2021
Architecture and Research Practices, Jameel Arts Center, Dubai, UAE. 2021.

2020
Disposession and Resistance in Karachi, Borders & Territories, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands. 2020.

2019
Karachi LaJamia: On Connection, Collectivity and Care. Sharjah Art Foundation. Sharjah, UAE.
Witnessing Change: Articulation and Experiences of Urban Transformation and Displacement, (with Shahana Rajani) Cities and Infrastructure, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan. 2019.

2023

Selected Writing

2025

To beat, to burn, in Where Sound Becomes Witness, Norient x Rewire.

2024

Ecstatic Ecopedagogies, (with Shahana Rajani) in Infidelities, Journal of Architectural Education Vol. 79, Edited by Nishat Awan et al., 2024.
Wild Thoughts: Land and Knowledge Enclosures in Karachi, (with Shahana Rajani) in Decolonial Hacker, Edited by Adania Shibli, 2024.

2023

A Ubiquitous Wetness, in Solidarity Infrastructures, Against Catastrophe Vol. 4, Edited by Michelle Pfeifer. 2023. Web.
Doom and the Desert, in Landless Review. Edited by Saira Ansari. Abu Dhabi: Warehouse 421. 2023. Web.
Mehran, Mitr, Climate Dispatch for World Weather Network. 2023. Web.

2022

Studies in Aqueous Time, in Time After Time, Solitude Journal 4. Stuttgart: Academie Schloss Solitude. 2022. Web and Print.
Sensing the Ephemeral Rivers: Notes Towards a Karachi Ecopedagogy (with Shahana Rajani), Anthropocene Curriculum, HKW, Berlin. 2022. Web.

2019

War, Visuality and the Militarised City, (with Shahana Rajani), in Empire, Perspecta 52, the Yale School of Architecture Journal. 2019. Print.
Becoming A Problem, (with Rahma Mian) in Concrete, Hybrid Vol. 3, Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture. 2019. Print.

2018

The Militarised University and the Everywhere War, (with Shahana Rajani), Karachi LaJamia. 2018. Web.

2017

Imperialism, Art & Pedagogy: Notes on Knowledge Production on the Frontlines, (with Shahana Rajani) in The Abolition of the University, Lou Dear and Martin Eve (Editors), Open Library of Humanities (March 2017). Web.

AWARDS, RESIDENCIES, GRANTS:

2025

Principal Residency Program, La Becque Artist Residency, Switzerland.
Asia Arts Gamechanger Award, Asia Society, India.
PRO Art Projects grant. Stroom Den Haag.

2024

Ways of Repair: Loss & Damage Collaboration, Fellowship, Online.
Jameel Art Prize, Nominee. Jameel Arts Foundation and V&A Museum, London.
RAM Commissions, Recipient, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai.

2023

Jan Van Eyck Akademie, Fellowship, Maastricht, NL.
WET LAND, Artist Residency, Galkadawala, Sri Lanka.

2022

Akademie Schloss Solitude, Fellowship, Stuttgart, Germany.
Production Grant, Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE.

2021

Junctions 21, Research Grant, PACT Zollverein, Germany.
Guest Fellowship, Pact Zollverein, Germany.

2020

Muntu Maxim Web Residency, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Germany.
The Shape of a Practice, Symposium and Seminar, HKW, Berlin, Germany.

2018

Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Exhibition Grant. USA. IMPACT18 – Matter in Movement, Workshop, PACT Zollverein, Essen, Germany

Teaching

2017-2023
Assistant Professor of Practice, Communication & Design, Habib University, Karachi.

2014-2017
Lecturer, Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi.

Recent/Upcoming Workshops

2025
Archives as Invitation
Writing to Gather