SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Supersymmetry, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 11 April - 3 May
2022 Geometric Light, The Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, 15 October - 17 December
Breath, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 7 - 29 July
Light upon Light, A touring solo exhibition, Rugby Art Gallery and Museum 18 September - 13 November 2021; Gallery Oldham, 22 January - 14 May 2022; The Atkinson, Southport, 22 June - 24 September
2021 Breath, Solo show at Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts, USA, Dec 2020 - June 2021
2019 Grids and Sub-Grids, Solo show of sculpture at Hopstreet Gallery, Brussels, Oct 2018 - Jan
2014 Symmetry in Sculpture, Solo show of sculptural work at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, May 2014 - Jan 2015
2009 Araam: Breathing Space, A touring art exhibition curated by Shisha and Mid-Pennine Arts, Mid Pennine Arts, Burnley, Jul - Sept
2008 Handasah - Unity in Pattern, at the William Morris Gallery, London, Feb - March 2008
2007 The Beauty of Abstraction, Light animation and paintings, touring show commissioned by Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, West Yorkshire, Nov - Jan
2005 Handasah - Unity in Pattern, Stockport City Art Gallery, Feb - March 2005
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Art Dubai, Grosvenor Gallery, UAE
HARDPAPER, Phoenix Art Projects, Brighton, March
Solo-show as Arthouse, Wakefield (Autumn '24)
2023 Open City Festival, Lublin Poland
2022 Abu Dhabi Art, Grosvenor Gallery, UAE
The Beauaty of Abstraction & Sharjah Spirit, Southbank Centre, London, 9 Nov '22 - 8 Jan '23
From Spark to Spirit, Noor Riyadh (curated by Neville Wakefield), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, November 2022-February 2023 (Exhibiting Numina)
The Lindisfarne Gospels, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, 17 Sept - 3 Dec
Zum Zum, The Folding World, Patrick Heide Contemporary, London, 8 July - 17 Sept
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, (Selected by Grayson Perry), London, 21 June - 21 August
Here After, Bridge Projects, Los Angeles, USA, 7 May - 30 July
Art Dubai, Grosvenor Gallery, UAE, March
2021 Making Paradise, curated by Esen Kaya, Aga Khan Centre, London, May - Sept
2019 Possible Architectures, curated by Saturation Point, University of Greenwich, Nov
Forgotten Enlightnements, Halle 14, Leipzieg, Germany, April - Aug
2018 Prince and Patron, selected by HRH Prince of Wales to exhibit at Buckingham Palace, Jul - Oct
AYAH - Digital Art as Collaborative Community practice, Jun - Jul, London
2017 Measuring Infinity, Hopstreet Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, Mar - June
WARP Contemporary Art Platform, Belgium, Mar - May
2016 Sharjah Islamic Arts Festival, Sharjah Art Museum, UAE, Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
2015 Royal society of Scottish painters in watercolour, Edinburgh, Jan 2015
Islamapolitan, Maraya Arts Centre, United Arab Emirates, June - Aug 2014; Istanbul Design week, Istanbul, Turkey, 5 - 9 Nov 2014; Milan Expo Milan, Italy, April 2015
2011 Light Passion, Darkness - South Asian Artists, Sept - Jan 2011 (touring show across UK)
2009 Contemporary Pakistani Artists Aug - Sept, Laurent DeLaye Gallery, London
2004 Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, Selected by Peter Randall-Page, November 2004
COMMISSIONS
Brighter Future, Piccadilly Circus, Art of London and National Gallery X, August 2022
Winter Light, works across the Southbank Centre, London, Nov '21 - Feb '22
'Invisible Threads' a light installation made up of 54 lightboxes, with moving lights, and sound programmed with a generative algorithm commissioned by the Barnaby Festival, June - Oct 2018
'Numina', commissioned by the Barbican Centre, London. Numina maps animated mathematical patterns onto a sculpture composed of tessellating pyramids arranged on a hexagonal grid, Oct '16 - Jan '17
Patterns of India, commissioned by the British Council. The app allows the user to explore geometric patterns like a musical instrument. November 2016
Sharjah Spectrum, an interactive digital animation created for the Sharjah Islamic Arts Festival, UAE, January 2016
Transcender, Visual backdrop and animation for Sain Zahoor and Faiz Ali Faiz at the Barbican Centre, London, 27 September 2015
Southend Colour, An interactive digital animation on the big screen at Focal Point Gallery, Southend
COLLECTIONS
University of Warwick, UK
Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, UAE
Paintings in Hospitals, UK
Cartwright Hall Museum and Art Gallery, UK
Rochdale Touchstones Gallery, UK
Expedia
The Prince's Foundation, UK
Leicestershire County Council Artworks Collection, UK
VITAL ARTS - Royal London Hospital, UK
Print Collection, Victoria & Albert Museum, UK
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, USA
AWARDS
Arts Council Funding for a solo touring show, 2021
Winner of the Lumen Prize for Digital Art, 2017
Artist International Development Award from the British Council and Arts Council, 2014
Arts Council funding, 2013
Waltham Forest Annual Awards for Art, 2010
Mosaic Award for Arts and Culture, 2008
PUBLIC ART
3D wall of hexagons for Theatre Deli, Broadgate, London, Jan - March 2018 (Temporary)
Mural commissioned by Wood St Walls, London. (Permanent)
Magic Carpet, light projection on the William Morris Gallery for the Walthamstow Garden party, commissioned by Artillery, CREATE and Barbican, July 2014, July 2015
Paint the Town, designing 25 shop shutters in Barking, commissioned by Design for London and the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, 2013. (Permanent)
Cloud 10, at the departure lounge at the Royal London Hospital, London, 2012, commissioned by VITAL ARTS. (Permanent)
PUBLICATIONS
Forgotten Enlightenments, published by Halle 14, Liepzieg, Germany, 2019
Sharjah Islamic Arts Festival, with 33 other exhibiting Artists, 2016
Islamapolitan, exhibition catalogue, 2014
Araam, duo catalogue with Halima Cassell, essays by Daud Sutton and Valerie Grove, 2011
Handasah, solo catalogue, essay by Keith Critchlow, 2004
EDUCATION
MA, Islamic Art, Prince's School, accredited by the University of Wales, London, 2004
BA Hons English Literature and History, University of Manchester, 2001