Uzma Sultan

Pakistan. Lives and works in London and Karachi, Pakistan.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Sultan’s most recent paintings explore the aesthetics of consumerism through the examination of advertising and food packaging. The works provide a witty commentary on our consumer society, much like the Pop Art imagery which Sultan references. The figuration in these paintings is vertiginously stacked in a way that mimics the flattened perspective of the early miniature tradition.  

Sultan’s paintings are largely intuitive and explore the process of making a painting, perhaps even more so than the narrative and representative nature of painting. The compositions are often unplanned and imprecise, executed with a gestural and unsteady brushstroke, often on unconventional surfaces that change the nature of the paint.

Sultan has exhibited in both group and solo shows across Europe and in her native Pakistan. Sultan has been an artist in residence two years in a row at Glogauair Berlin and in 2017, her work was selected for an exhibition of 50 Contemporary Artists with the Enter Art Foundation in Berlin. In 2018 she had an exhibition at the Subjectobject gallery in Berlin.

Vita

  • Education
  • 1993 - 1994 Foundation - Chelsea College of Art & Design - London - UK
  • 1994 - 1997 BA (Hons) Fine Art - Wimbledon School of Art - London - UK
  • 1997-1999 MFA Painting - The Slade School of Fine Art - London - UK
  • Solo Exhibitions
  • 2012 
  • Mishmash - Rohtas Gallery 2 - Lahore - PK
  • 2011
  • Life Room - Koel Gallery - Karachi - PK
  • 2001
  • Exhibition - Galerie Sadequain - Karachi - PK
  • 2000 
  • Exhibition - Rohtas Gallery - Islamabad - PK
  • Group Exhibitions
  • 2018
  • Space,Time & Details (with Sonja Blattner) - Subjectobject Galler - Berlin - DE
  • Jo Mama’s Alphabet Show - Studio one Gallery - London - UK
  • Interior, Duplex - Sybelstr. 48 - Berlin - DE
  • Alphabet Show - Studio 1 Gallery - London - UK
  • Duplex - Sybelstrasse 48 - Berlin - DE
  • Uzma Sultan - Subject object Gallery - Berlin - DE
  • Sommergang - Subjectobject Galerie - Berlin - DE
  • 2017 
  • I need you to elevate me here (with Ulrike Buhl) - Kunstimtauthaus Berlin - Berlin - DE
  • 50 Contemporary Artists by Enter Art Foundation - Multiposter - Berlin - DE
  • 2016 
  • Glogauair Open Studios - Glogau AIR - Berlin - DE
  • Imago Mundi (Lines in the sand) - Venice Biennale - Venice - IT
  • 2015 
  • Birwa - Galerie Sadequain - Karachi - PK
  • Uzma Sultan & Qadir Jhatial - Koel Gallery - Karachi - PK
  • 2014 
  • Liverpool Independents Biennale - St Brides Gallery - Liverpool - UK
  • Glogauair Open Studios - Glogau AIR - Berlin - DE
  • 2013 
  • Coligeire - Takt - Berlin - DE
  • 2012 
  • Unhinged Arts Festival - The Electric Picture house - London, UK
  • Faiz Art prize - VM Art Gallery - Karachi - PK
  • 2011 
  • Mein - Koel Gallery - Karachi - PK
  • 2010 
  • Hackney Arts Festival - Hackney Downs - London - UK
  • 2008
  • Krystal Klear - Turn Berlin - Berlin - DE
  • 2007 
  • Arts Unwrapped - Cremer Street - London - UK
  • 2007 
  • Art Auction for Torture Victims - The Building Centre - London - UK
  • 2006 
  • Lynn Painter Stainers Exhibition - Hall 9 - London - UK
  • 2005 
  • Mostyn Open - Oriel Mostyn Gallery - Llandudno - UK
  • 2004 
  • Discerning Eye - Mall Galleries - London - UK
  • 2003 
  • Reduced / Century Gallery - London - UK
  • Deptford X Festival - Resolution Way - London - UK
  • Don't start from the good old things but the bad new ones - Whitechapel Project Space - London - UK
  • 1998
  • Show - Woburn Square - London - UK
  • Slade School of Fine Art Show - J Walter Thompson,Berkeley square - London - UK
  • WSA exhibition - The Cut Gallery - London - United Kingdom
  • Awards
  • 2006
  • IAF Fine Art Prize- Fine Art Prize - UK
  • 2000
  • ACAVA First Base Studio Award - UK
  • 1999
  • Mary Richsgitz Prize - UK
  • Residencies
  • 2019
  • FIAF - Farindola - Abruzzo - IT
  • 2019
  • ‘Live Painting’ AAF - Battersea - London - UK
  • 2016
  • Glogauair - Berlin - DE
  • 2014
  • Glogau AIR - Berlin - DE
  • 2013
  • Takt - Berlin - DE

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