Kishwar Kiani GBA is a visual artist, sculptor and an academic from Pakistan, currently based in Rawalpindi.
Questioning how order and chaos coexist through scaffoldings underpins her visual arts practice. She identifies her ‘true-self’ in order and chaos, through scaffolds and mazes. Her works vary from charcoal to metal, exploring ways to break away from the constraints of her learning. She identifies her surroundings as a gigantic scaffolding and in perpetual creative movement: building, renovating, elevating but also obliterating.
With her illustrated drawings of people falling out of a crumbling maze and sculptures on the verge of complete disintegration, she toys with chance in hope to find new ways of keeping the viewer at an edge, hanging, predicting the outcome. As every work takes its form from the previous one, the order that once stood separate becomes systemised within chaos as a linear narrative in her works.
STATEMENT
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2020 - 2021 - MA Fine Art - Camberwell College of Arts (University of Arts London), UK
2007 - 2011 - BFA - Fatima Jinnah Women University, Pakistan
2025 - ‘Gilbert Bayes Award Show’ - Royal Society of Sculptors, London (Upcoming)
2025 - ‘India Art Fair’ - Art Incept, New Delhi (Upcoming)
2024 - ‘Maps’ - O Art Space, Lahore (Upcoming)
2024 - ‘For outcome of outcome’ - Sanat Initiative, Karachi (Upcoming)
2024 - ‘Back to Basics’ - Articulate Studios, Lahore
2024 - ‘To be or Not to be’ - Numaish Gah, Lahore
2024 - ‘MK Calling’ - MK Gallery, Milton Keynes
2024 - ‘Memory Keepers - India Art Fair Parallel’ - Art Incept, Gurgaon
2023 - ‘Conquering the White Space II’ - Khaas Contemporary, Islamabad
2023 - ‘World Within, World Without’ - Art Incept, IF.Be Ballard Estate, Mumbai
2023 - ‘Inception Grant 2023 Finalist Show'- Art Incept , New Delhi
2022 - ‘Eve’s I/ Eye II’ - Sanat Initiative, Karachi
2022 - 'Finalist Exhibition/Visual Art Open' - Unit 1 Gallery, London
2022 - 'Sculptor/Sculpture' - COMO Museum, Lahore
2022 - 'Shortlisted for Drawing of the Year 2021 Competition' - Archisource, London
2021 - 'Coded Iconic - Room III - Virtual Exhibition' - The Holy Art, London
2021 - 'Now - Grad Show' - Saatchi Gallery, London
2021 - 'MA Fine Art Graduate Showcase' - South London Gallery, London
2021 - 'Unmute' - Copeland Gallery, London
2019 - 'Sunny Art Prize - Exchange Program' - Harmony Art Gallery, Shanghai
2018 - 'The Art of Creation' - Patchogue Arts Council, New York
2018 - 'Barcelona Art Prize' - Cage Gallery, Barcelona
2018 - 'Art Takes Soho' - See Me, New York
2018 - 'Sunny Art Prize' - Sunny Art Centre, London
2018 - 'Thresholds' - Gonzo Unit, Thessalloniki
2017 - ‘Onrushing 2’ - Gallery 6, Islamabad
2017 - 'Textures, Forms & Colours' - Nukta Studios, Rawalpindi
2017 - 'The Arjumand Award 2017' - Pakistan National Council of Arts, Islamabad
2012 - ‘10th Emerging Talent 2012' - VM Art Gallery, Karachi
2012 - 'Winds of Change' - Alhamra Art Gallery, Lahore
EXHIBITIONS
2024 - The News International , ‘Decoding the Tesseract’
2024 - Art Now, ‘Curating the Cube’
2024 - The Arts Family London: Finalist’s Artist Profile
2024 - Youlin Magazine, ‘Art Review: To be or Not to be at Numaish Gah’
2023 - Youlin Magazine, ‘Art review: Conquering the While Space II at Khaas Contemporary’
2023 - Boynes, ‘Monthly Art Award’
2022 - Nitram Fine Art Charcoal, ‘Featured Artist'‘
2022 - Youlin Magazine, ‘Sculpture at COMO Museum of Art’
FEATURES AND PUBLICATIONS
AWARDS
2024 - Gilbert Bayes Award
2024 - Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors
2024 - Finalist - The Arts Family London Emerging Art Prize
2024 - Nigaah Art Award - Emerging Female Artist
2023 - Finalist for Art Incept’s Inception Grant
2020 - 2021 Chevening Scholarship Award