Research:

•Comparative modernities; critical and postcolonial theory; modern South Asian and Islamic art.
• Book-length study on cosmopolitanism in the art of twentieth-century South-Asia.
• Essays on media, craft, and popular culture of South Asia.

Teaching:

ARTH 3600 Introduction to Contemporary Art
ARTH 3607 Orientalism and Representation
ARTH 3100 History of Photography
ARTH 4100/6100 Proseminar: Introduction to Methods
ARTH 4960/6190 Comparative Modernities

Selected Publications:

Academic Articles and Book Chapters:

“Nuclearization and Pakistani Popular Culture since 1998.” In Nuclear Power and Atomic Publics, edited by Itty Abraham (Indiana University Press, forthcoming).

“Ghostly Sufis and Ornamental Veils: Spectral Visualities in Karachi’s Popular-Public Sphere.” In Re-exploring the Urban: Citiscapes in South Asia and the Middle East, eds. Kamran Ali and Martina Rieker, Oxford University Press (forthcoming).

“Registering Crisis: Ethnicity in Pakistani Cinema of the 1960s and 70s.” In Beyond Crisis: A Critical Second Look at Pakistan, ed. Naveeda Khan, Routledge (forthcoming).

“Shirin Neshat’s Photographs as Postcolonial Allegories,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (Autumn 2008).

“Political Posters in Karachi, 1988-1999,” South Asian Popular Culture vol. 5, no. 1 (April 2007).

“Rethinking Calligraphic Modernism."In Discrepant Abstraction, ed. Kobena Mercer, MIT Press, 2006.

“The Pakistani Diaspora in North America.” In The New Cosmopolitanism: South Asians in the US, eds. Gita Rajan and Shailja Sharma, Stanford University Press, 2006.

Short Essays, Reviews,
Encyclopedia and Catalog Entries:

“Heavenly Ornaments” in Heavenly Ornaments: Naiza Khan exhibition catalog (Karachi: Canvas Gallery, 2007).

“Women, Gender Representations of Sexualities and Gender in the Visual Arts," Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Vol. 5 (2007).

“Modern Miniature Painting as Muslim Cosmopolitanism,” ISIM Review 18 (2006).

Book review of Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Monuments, Objects, Histories: Institutions of Art in Colonial and Post-Colonial India (Columbia University Press, 2004), Art Journal (Fall 2006).

“Imagining South Asian Craft Under Modernity.” In ArtSouthAsia exhibition catalog. (Manchester: Shisha, 2006).

“Plastic Toys and Urban Craft in South Asia.” In Prince Claus Journal No. 10a (2003), special issue titled “The Future is Handmade: The Survival and Innovation of Crafts,” ed. Iftikhar Dadi.

Edited Volumes:

Editor, Prince Claus Journal 10a (2003) special issue, “The Future is Handmade: The Survival and Innovation of Crafts.” The volume includes contributions by 13 international authors.

Unpacking Europe: Towards a Critical Reading. Co-edited with Salah Hassan,  Netherlands Architectural Institute, 2001 (465 pages). A major critical reader in two parts, released in conjunction with the exhibition Unpacking Europe.

CURATING:

Co-curator (with Salah Hassan) for Unpacking Europe, a major international exhibition by nineteen leading contemporary artists at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Dec 2001 - Apr 2002.

ACADEMIC SERVICE:

Organizer, “Informalization and Representation in South Asia” conference, Institute for Comparative Modernities, Cornell University, May 6-7, 2008.

Member of Editorial Board, Art Journal, 2007-2011.

Elected member, Humanities Council, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, 2005-2008.

Member, Executive Council, Institute for Comparative Modernities, Cornell University since Fall 2007.

ARTISTIC PRACTICE:
(In collaboration with Elizabeth Dadi)

Included among 100 important emerging global artists in Fresh Cream, Phaidon Press, 2000.

Selected Recent Exhibitions:

Inaugural exhibition, National Art Gallery, Islamabad, Pakistan (2007).

They Made History, Cornell University (2005).           

Fatal Love, Queens Museum of Art, New York (2005). [Catalog]           

DETOX, traveling media exhibition, Norway and Sweden, (2004-05).

Clash of Civilizations, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University (2003).

Street Level Photoworks Gallery, Glasgow, UK, (2003).

Liverpool Biennial, UK, (2002). [Catalog]

EV+A 2002, Limerick, Ireland, (2002). [Catalog]

Admit One Gallery, New York City (2001).

Let’s Entertain: Life’s Guilty Pleasures, at Walker Art Center, Minnesota;
traveled to Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2000-2001); Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (2001); Miami Art Museum (2001). [Catalog]

Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Japan (2000). [Catalog]

Third Asia-Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia (1999). [Catalog]

Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial, Fukuoka, Japan (1999). [Catalog]

XXIV Bienal de Sao Paulo, Roteiros, Sao Paulo, Brazil (1998). [Catalog]

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