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Nael Quraishi is an artist based in Rotterdam, NL. Having grown up in both Pakistan and the UK, the roots of his practice lay deeply within childhood recollections and memories of space and place. Working mainly with photo and video, Quraishi casts a subtle yet sharp light on the individual and collective experience of nostalgia, displacement and (be)longing, highlighting its lasting affect on everyday life.

SOLO SHOWS

www.theemptybench.onfotomat.com
(Un)Conditional, Bibliotheek Den Haag, The Hague, NL

GROUP SHOWS

Grounding: Stories of Migration, Fotodok X Breda Photo, Breda, NL
Carrier, curated by Hedvig Koertz, an other world, Rotterdam, NL
A Passage | Jake Caleb with artists, an other world, Rotterdan, NL
One Hiccup, Quartair Contempporary Art Initiatives, Den Haag, NL
Generation, JIPFest, Jakarta, IN
Home Cinema x Home (online screening) Verbeelding, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, NL
Something Borrowed, Something New, Copper and Steel, Karachi, PK
Flights I Could Have Taken, Uit Het Gareel At Future Intel
Roots Film Festival, Filmhuis, Den Haag, NL (Screening)
Generation Z, Noorderlicht International Photography Festival,NL
Zilveren Camera, Museum Hilversum, Hilversum NL
KABK Graduation Festival, The Hague, NL
Push it to the Limit, Melkweg Expo, Amsterdam, NL
The Quantum City: Territory Space Place, Karachi, PK
Beyond View, Belfast Exposed Gallery, Belfast, UK
‘Good Work’, The Grey Space in The Middle, The Hague, NL
Let Me Tell You About, UNSEEN Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
A Breath of Fresh Air, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, NL
NOUN Presents, VSVU Academy of Fine Art & Design, Bratislava,SK
Ulster University Photo Fair 2, Belfast, UK
Trance and Moving Image, EYE Film Institute, Amsterdam, NL
Ulster University Photo Fair 1, Belfast, UK
Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast, UK

PUBLICATIONS

Pak*stan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere, Duke University Press
Verbeelding/Imagination, designed by Kummer & Herman, Lecturis
Rituelen, Hard // Hoofd
Cover for ‘Bodies in Dissaray’, Junctions Graduate Journal of Humanities
Generation Z: on the verge of a new alphabet, Noorderlicht
VandeJongLikes, Portrait Series Instagram feature
OnFotomat Watch, IGTV Feature on The Empty Bench
PF Magazine, ‘Universele behoefte aan verbinding’ by Claire Hoogakker, Portfolio Feature.
Between Light, Works 1984-2020 by Ayessha Quraishi
Stichting De Zilveren Camera 2019 feature ‘The Empty Bench’
The Quantum City: Territory | Space | Place, IPAF
‘A place no longer’
Push It To The Limit, Graduation Catalogue ‘The Empty Bench’
KABK Graduation Festival Catalogue ‘The Empty Bench’
Fast Love and the Palm Tree Beach Hut (BA Thesis)
Flights I Could Have Taken
NOUN Presents: Appendix
A New Common Chord ‘An Exercise in Faith’
Oranges and Satellites in collaboration w/ Cory Danks

COMMISSIONS

‘15 Minutes with…’ Nederlands Fotomuseum, A Portrait Series
(Un)Conditional, Bibliotheek Den Haag.
IPAF Curatorial, A Place No Longer, Karachi, Pakistan
Portraits of Ayessha Quraishi, used for Artist’s monograph published 2020

AWARDS/NOMINATIONS/SUBSIDIES

Artist Start, Mondriaan Fonds
Het Witte Doek Award, Nominee
De Zilveren Camera, Prijs voor Storytelling, 2nd

RECIDENCIES/EXCHANGE
an other world, Rotterdam, NL
VSVU Academy of Fine Art & Design (Bratislava, SK)
Fondazione Studio Marangoni (Florence, IT)

INTERNSHIPS

Bani Abidi (Berlin, DE) Bani Abidi
Shalalae Jamil (Karachi, PK)

EDUCATION/WORKSHOPS

Talk on Space and Memory with curator Aziz Sohail, Karachi University
Thesis Workshop, Types of Research/Writings, KABK
Activating our Archives, Modern Art Oxford, Led by Sunil Shah
BA Photography, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK)
BA(hons) Photography, Ulster University, Belfast, UK

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