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    Mahwish Chishty

    Mahwish Chishty

    Associate Professor
    Campus:
    Kent
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    mchishty@kent.edu
    Phone:
    330-672-6453
    Personal Website:
    http://www.mahachishty.com/

    Biography

    Initially trained as a miniature painter from the National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan, Mahwish Chishty has aggressively combined new media and conceptual work with her traditional practice. Ms. Chishty has exhibited her work nationally and internationally at venues like University of Technology (UTS Gallery) Sydney, Australia; Boghossian Foundation– Villa Empain. Brussels; Utah Museum of Contemporary Art; Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MOCADA), Brooklyn, NY; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and Gandhara Art Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan among others. By camouflaging modern war machines with folk imagery, Ms. Chishty is shedding light on the complexity of acculturation, politics and power.

     

    In 2015, Ms. Chishty was awarded residencies at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; and Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, NY. She recently exhibited her work at Imperial War Museum in London, UK. Ms. Chishty also has works in public and private collections including the Foreign office Islamabad, Pakistan, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka Shi, Japan and a recent acquisition by Imperial War Museum in London.

     

    Ms. Chishty is also the recipient of prestigious Solomon R. Guggenheim fellowship.

     

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