INFO
BIO
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
2020 www.theemptybench.onfotomat.com
2019 (Un)Conditional, Bibliotheek Den Haag, The Hague, NL
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS/ SCREENINGS
2023 A Passage | Jake Caleb with artists, an other world, Rotterdam, NL
2023 One Hiccup, Quartair Contemporary Art Initiatives, Den Haag, NL
2023 Generation, JIPFest, Jakarta, IN
2022 Home Cinema x Home (online screening)
2022 Verbeelding, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, NL
2022 Something Borrowed, Something New, Copper and Steel, Karachi, PK
2020 Flights I Could Have Taken (online), Uit Het Gareel
2020 Roots Film Festival, Filmhuis, The Hague, NL
2020 Generation Z, Noorderlicht International Photography Festival, Heerenveen NL
2020 Zilveren Camera, Museum Hilversum, Hilversum NL
2019 KABK Graduation Festival, The Hague, NL
2019 Push it to the Limit, Melkweg Expo, Amsterdam, NL
2019 The Quantum City: Territory Space Place, Karachi, PK
2018 Beyond View, Belfast Exposed Gallery, Belfast, UK
2018 ‘Good Work’, The Grey Space in The Middle, The Hague, NL
2018 Let Me Tell You About, UNSEEN, Amsterdam, NL
2017 A Breath of Fresh Air, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, NL
2017 NOUN Presents, VSVU Academy of Fine Art & Design, Bratislava, SK
2017 Ulster University Photo Fair 2, Belfast, UK
2017 Trance and Moving Image, EYE Film Institute, Amsterdam, NL
2016 Ulster University Photo Fair 1, Belfast, UK
2016 Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast, UK
PUBLICATIONS
2023 Pak*stan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere, Duke University Press
2022 Verbeelding/Imagination, designed by Kummer & Herman, Lecturis
2022 Rituelen, Hard // Hoofd
2021 Bodies in Dissaray, Junctions Graduate Journal of Humanities
2020 Generation Z: on the verge of a new alphabet, Noorderlicht
2020 VandeJongLikes, Portrait Series Instagram feature
2020 OnFotomat Watch, IGTV Feature on The Empty Bench
2020 PF Magazine, ‘Universele behoefte aan verbinding’
2020 Between Light, Works 1984-2020 by Ayessha Quraishi
2020 Stichting De Zilveren Camera 2019 feature ‘The Empty Bench’
2019 The Quantum City: Territory | Space | Place, IPAF
2019 Push It To The Limit, Graduation Catalogue ‘The Empty Bench’
2019 KABK Graduation Festival Catalogue ‘The Empty Bench’
2019 Fast Love and the Palm Tree Beach Hut
2018 Flights I Could Have Taken2017 NOUN Presents: Appendix
2016 A New Common Chord ‘An Exercise in Faith’
2016 Oranges and Satellites in collaboration with Cory Danks
COMMISSIONS
2020 Portraits, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam NL
2018 (Un)Conditional, Bibliotheek Den Haag.
2018 IPAF Curatorial, A Place No Longer, Karachi, Pakistan
2015 Portraits of artist Ayessha Quraishi
AWARDS / SUBSIDIES
2023 Artist Start, Mondriaan Fonds
2020 Het Witte Doek Award, Nominee
2019 De Zilveren Camera, Prijs voor Storytelling, 2nd
RECIDENCIES
2023 an other world, Rotterdam, NL
2017 VSVU Academy of Fine Art & Design, Bratislava, SK
2016 Fondazione Studio Marangoni, Florence, IT
INTERNSHIPS
2018 Bani Abidi, Berlin, DE
2012 + 2013 Shalalae Jamil, Karachi, PK
EDUCATION / WORKSHOPS
2021 Talk on Space and Memory with curator Aziz Sohail, Karachi University
2021 + 2020 Thesis Workshop, Types of Research/Writings, KABK
2020 Activating our Archives, Modern Art Oxford, Led by Sunil Shah
2019 BA Photography, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK)
2016 BA(hons) Photography, Ulster University, Belfast, UK
2014 - 2016 Ulster University, BA Photography and Video, Belfast UK
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
2020 www.theemptybench.onfotomat.com
2019 (Un)Conditional, Bibliotheek Den Haag, The Hague, NL
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS/ SCREENINGS
2023 A Passage | Jake Caleb with artists, an other world, Rotterdam, NL
2023 One Hiccup, Quartair Contemporary Art Initiatives, Den Haag, NL
2023 Generation, JIPFest, Jakarta, IN
2022 Home Cinema x Home (online screening)
2022 Verbeelding, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, NL
2022 Something Borrowed, Something New, Copper and Steel, Karachi, PK
2020 Flights I Could Have Taken (online), Uit Het Gareel
2020 Roots Film Festival, Filmhuis, The Hague, NL
2020 Generation Z, Noorderlicht International Photography Festival, Heerenveen NL
2020 Zilveren Camera, Museum Hilversum, Hilversum NL
2019 KABK Graduation Festival, The Hague, NL
2019 Push it to the Limit, Melkweg Expo, Amsterdam, NL
2019 The Quantum City: Territory Space Place, Karachi, PK
2018 Beyond View, Belfast Exposed Gallery, Belfast, UK
2018 ‘Good Work’, The Grey Space in The Middle, The Hague, NL
2018 Let Me Tell You About, UNSEEN, Amsterdam, NL
2017 A Breath of Fresh Air, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, NL
2017 NOUN Presents, VSVU Academy of Fine Art & Design, Bratislava, SK
2017 Ulster University Photo Fair 2, Belfast, UK
2017 Trance and Moving Image, EYE Film Institute, Amsterdam, NL
2016 Ulster University Photo Fair 1, Belfast, UK
2016 Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast, UK
PUBLICATIONS
2023 Pak*stan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere, Duke University Press
2022 Verbeelding/Imagination, designed by Kummer & Herman, Lecturis
2022 Rituelen, Hard // Hoofd
2021 Bodies in Dissaray, Junctions Graduate Journal of Humanities
2020 Generation Z: on the verge of a new alphabet, Noorderlicht
2020 VandeJongLikes, Portrait Series Instagram feature
2020 OnFotomat Watch, IGTV Feature on The Empty Bench
2020 PF Magazine, ‘Universele behoefte aan verbinding’
2020 Between Light, Works 1984-2020 by Ayessha Quraishi
2020 Stichting De Zilveren Camera 2019 feature ‘The Empty Bench’
2019 The Quantum City: Territory | Space | Place, IPAF
2019 Push It To The Limit, Graduation Catalogue ‘The Empty Bench’
2019 KABK Graduation Festival Catalogue ‘The Empty Bench’
2019 Fast Love and the Palm Tree Beach Hut
2018 Flights I Could Have Taken2017 NOUN Presents: Appendix
2016 A New Common Chord ‘An Exercise in Faith’
2016 Oranges and Satellites in collaboration with Cory Danks
COMMISSIONS
2020 Portraits, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam NL
2018 (Un)Conditional, Bibliotheek Den Haag.
2018 IPAF Curatorial, A Place No Longer, Karachi, Pakistan
2015 Portraits of artist Ayessha Quraishi
AWARDS / SUBSIDIES
2023 Artist Start, Mondriaan Fonds
2020 Het Witte Doek Award, Nominee
2019 De Zilveren Camera, Prijs voor Storytelling, 2nd
RECIDENCIES
2023 an other world, Rotterdam, NL
2017 VSVU Academy of Fine Art & Design, Bratislava, SK
2016 Fondazione Studio Marangoni, Florence, IT
INTERNSHIPS
2018 Bani Abidi, Berlin, DE
2012 + 2013 Shalalae Jamil, Karachi, PK
EDUCATION / WORKSHOPS
2021 Talk on Space and Memory with curator Aziz Sohail, Karachi University
2021 + 2020 Thesis Workshop, Types of Research/Writings, KABK
2020 Activating our Archives, Modern Art Oxford, Led by Sunil Shah
2019 BA Photography, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK)
2016 BA(hons) Photography, Ulster University, Belfast, UK
2014 - 2016 Ulster University, BA Photography and Video, Belfast UK
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BIO
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.
Currently a 2023 recipient of the Artist Start fund granted by Mondriaan Fonds.
SOLO SHOWS
www.theemptybench.onfotomat.com
(Un)Conditional, Bibliotheek Den Haag, The Hague, NL
GROUP SHOWS
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
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.
Currently a 2023 recipient of the Artist Start fund granted by Mondriaan Fonds.
SOLO SHOWS
www.theemptybench.onfotomat.com
(Un)Conditional, Bibliotheek Den Haag, The Hague, NL
GROUP SHOWS
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