Working across multiple media she explores the politics of development and dispossession through the lens of dissident ecological knowledges and traditions of environmental resistance. She is a co-founder with Shahana Rajani of Karachi LaJamia: experimental and ecstatic ecopedagogies in collaboration with ongoing movements in defense of land and water in the city.
2017 - 2023 Assistant Professor of Practice, Communication & Design, Habib University, Karachi.
2014 - 2017 Lecturer, Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi.
2025
Your Ears Later Will Know to Listen, Nottingham Contemporary, UK. (Upcoming)
to beat, to burn. Rewire, The Hague. (Upcoming)
Sada, Sada. Konsthall C, Stockholm, Sweden.
The Slipperiness of Empathy, CRASH, Cambridge University, UK.
2024
Way of the Forest. Colomboscope, Colombo.
28 North and Parallel Weathers, Khoj Studios, Delhi.
The Deluge & the Tree, B7L9, Tunis.
Knowledge Is a Garden, Migros Museum, Zurich.
Waterways: Arteries, Rhythm and Kinship. Tate Modern, London.
Manzar, Qatar Art Mill Museum, Doha.
Jameel Prize 7: Moving Images, V&A Museum, London.
Landed Histories: Ecology, Power and Politics in Digital and Lens-based Practices, V&A Museum, London.
2023
Cosmovisions on Land & Entangled Futures, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead.
House of Kal, nGbK, Berlin.
EXIST Festival, Cafe Oto, London.
Open Studios, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht.
Urgency Intensive, 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.
2025
Principal Residency Program, La Becque Artist Residency, Switzerland.
Asia Arts Future Award, Asia Society. India.
2024
Ways of Repair: Loss & Damage Collaboration, Fellowship, Online.
Jameel Art Prize, Shortlist. 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.
to beat, to burn, in Where Sound Becomes Witness, Norient x Rewire, 2025.
Ecstatic Ecopedagogies, 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.
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.
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.
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. Print. 2019. Print.
The Militarised University and the Everywhere War, (with Shahana Rajani), Karachi LaJamia. 2018. Web.
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.