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CV

Selected Public & Private Art Commissions

I Am a Magnet to Money, (Sculpture) Latino Bites, Northern Blvd, Queens, NY 11372, 2023


Calligraphic Relief, Steinway St. Queens, NY 11103, 2023

 

Praying room, Wiese Realty, 3611 14th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11218, 2022 


Archcorp CT Office, (4 murals) the Onyx Tower 2, office No: P2-201 Dubai, UAE, 2022


Art Beams at Brooklyn Square, 3611 14th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11218 Brooklyn NY, 2022


House of Words, Façade & lobby for apt building in Bushwick, 30 Belvidere St, Brooklyn, NY 11206, 2016


Nothing is Wasted, artwork done with broken/painted pieces of plywood for lobby of 247 W 38 St. New York, NY 10018, 2015


Castle Braid, façade, lobby, rooftop furniture, lobby sculptures, all Artwork for residential 150 apt building, 114 Troutman St, Brooklyn, NY 11206,  2010 to 2016 


Crescent Club, 12 ft X12 ft, wall relief. 41-17 Crescent St, Long Island City, NY11101, 2016 


Conference room, Wiese Realty, 3611 14th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11218, 2012 


Garage door (based in a novel “A tree grows in Brooklyn”), 114 Troutman St, Brooklyn, NY 11206, 2010 

Selected Group Exhibitions

Tossed: Art from Discarted, Found and Re-purposed Materials, Middledury College 


Museum of Art, 2023


India Art Fair, 2023


India Art Fair, 2022


Together & Apart, Studio Art 2021

  

Drawing Room Diamonds, Sanat Initiative, Karachi, 2019


Silent Conflicts, Studio Art New Delhi, India, 2019


2nd Karachi Biennale (I am not your bitch anymore) installation site Monkey Cage, Karachi Zoo, 2019


An Apology to Shiekh Ayaz, Chawkadi Gallery, Karachi,2019


India Art Fair, 2017


Lucid Dreams and Distant Visions: South Asian Art in the Diaspora, Asia Society Museum, NY, 2017


56th International Art Exhibition la Biennale di Venezia 2015, The Azerbaijan Pavilion, Vita Vitale, curetted by Artwise, 2015


'Here Today...' For The 50th Anniversary Of The IUCN Red List Of Threatened Species, London, UK, 2014


Art Festival Watou, Watou, Belgium, 2014


Brain Drain, project for Art 14, London, UK, 2014


Twelve Gates Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2013


Paper or Plastic: two-person show, Temp Gallery, Sacramento, CA, USA 2012 


Body Double: The figure in contemporary art, Frederik Meijer Garden & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI, USA,  2012


Slick Art Fair, Paris, France 2011


State of Things, Aicon Gallery, London, UK, 2009


End of Oil Exit Art, New York, USA, 2009


Engendered, New York, USA, 2009


Erasing Borders 2009, Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora, Dowd Gallery Cortland NY, USA, 2009


Duet: The Art of Khalil Chishtee & Ruby Chishti, Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA, USA, 2009


Hong Kong Art Fair, Green Cardamom both, Hong Kong, 2008


Dubai Art Fair, Green Cardamom, Booth B52, Dubai, 2008,


Inaugural Show (of the new venue) National Art Gallery Islamabad, Pakistan, 2007


City Lights Exit Art, New York, USA, 2006


Art for Dummies, CSUS, CA, USA, 2006


Installation at Fools Foundation, Sacramento, CA, USA, 2005


Group Show at Up Town Gallery Sacramento, CA, USA, 2005


Drop your Draws, Sacramento fine art center, Sacramento CA, USA, 2005


Bronze Show at Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA, US, 2004


National Exhibition, Alhamra Art Gallery Lahore, Pakistan, 2002


Drawing Show, SimSim Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan 2000


Remembering Zahoor, Zahoor-ul-Ikhlaq Gallery NCA Lahore Pakistan 2000


Scope IIV Faculty Show, NCA Gallery Lahore, Pakistan 1999


Scope IV Faculty Show, NCA Gallery Lahore, Pakistan 1995


Sculpture Show, NCA Gallery Lahore, Pakistan 1994


Scope V Faculty Show, NCA Gallery Lahore, Pakistan, 1993

Solo Shows

Politics of Being human, Sanat Gallery, Karachi, 2019


Between the Lines, Visual Art Gallery, Habitat Center, New Delhi, 2019


Between the Lines, Bikaner house, New Delhi, 2019


Trash to Treasure, Berlin Baku Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2015


I me & mine. Twelve Gates Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2014


Sparkling truths. Lahore, Pakistan, 2011


Jo dill pe gurarti he. Islamabad, Pakistan, 2011


Recycled Identities II, Mumbai, 2011 


Recycled Identities, Delhi India, 2011


Dreaming of Dreaming, Esplanade, Singapore, 2010


Toys Are Us, VM Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan, 2008


No-Knock, Green Cardamom, London, UK, 2008


And then I decided not to have two Bs: Brain and Balls, Robert Else Gallery, CSUS, USA, 2007


I Love You Solo Show, Rohtas Gallery, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2007


My Show, at Witt Gallery, CSUS, CA, USA, 2006


New Works by Khalil Chishtee at Robert Else Gallery, CSUS, CA, USA, 2005 

Workshops, Residencies, and Lectures

Myths-Upcycled, Kunststation Kleinsassen Hofbieber, Kleinsassen, Germany, 2018


Waste of Art. International artist workshop, Baku Azerbaijan, 2014


Public Lecture


Sacramento State University, Sacramento, CA, 2012


National College of Arts, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, 2010


National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan, 2010


Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, Jan 2009


Lecture


Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi, Pakistan, Oct 2008

 

Diaspora 


One month Residency at Vasl Art Trust, Karachi, Oct 2008  


Vasl, International Art Workshop at Gaddani, Karachi, Pakistan, 2001


Wassani, International Artist Workshop at Nairobi, Kenya, 1998 

Publications & Video

Pintrest link:

https://www.pinterest.ca/lescreateliers/khalil-chishtee/


Love, Spirituality and Divine Comedy, catalogue assay by Elaine O’ Brien 

Brain and balls in plastic:the unreal art of Khalil Chishtee a catalogue assay by Hammad Nassr


https://www.thenews.com.pk/magazine/you/583438-in-conversation-with-khalil-chishtee


https://www.iloboyou.com/plastic-bag-sculptures-khalil-chishtee/


https://en.themocla.com/intervista-khalil-chishtee


https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art-and-culture/khalil-chishtee-sculptor-pakistan-art-5582820/


https://nahsthetic.wordpress.com/2015/06/09/khalil-chishtee/


Berlin Baku Gallery, Berlin, Germany 

https://vimeo.com/126302099


One after the Other, 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAedbjYoVVc


Broke Messiahs I & II

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=576rMCb5J6A


http://hifructose.com/2015/04/10/khalil-chishtees-latest-plastic-bag-sculptures-reflect-on-creation/


http://combustus.com/out-of-pakistan/


Without the right of knock , Nukta Art, Biannual Contemporary Art Magazine of Pakistan, by Shazia Zuberi,

http://www.nuktaartmag.com/Nukta/GeneralContent/View/88


“Trash to Treasure” Sacramento Bee by Bob Silva

http://www.feedsfarm.com/article/1753a25009f70473b02ba50811fa9a3fe6932206.html


“Acts of simulation” The News by Asim Akhtar

http://jang.com.pk/thenews/mar2007-weekly/nos-04-03-2007/enc.htm#2


https://imagomundicollection.org/artworks/khalil-chishtee-one-all-all-one

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