Mahwish Chishty
Artist lecture: February 22nd, 2017 6pm Jordan Ballroom A – Student Union Building
Initially trained as a miniature painter from the National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan, Mahwish Chishty combines 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. Lecture is free and open to the public.
Mahwish’s work is featured in the Sun Valley Center for the Arts current exhibition, Rayguns, Robots, Drones: Technology’s Peril and Promise.
http://sunvalleycenter.org/visual-arts/exhibitions-in-ketchum/
To see more of her work go to her website:
http://www.mahachishty.com/