Unbound, 8ft x 6ft sculpture, Private Collection, Philadelphia, 2025
Can You Extinguish a Star?, 12ft x 8ft sculpture, Private Collection, Philadelphia, 2024
I Am a Magnet to Money, sculpture for Latino Bites, Northern Blvd, Queens, NY, 2023
Praying Room, Wiese Realty, Brooklyn, NY, 2022
Archicorp CT Office Murals (4), Onyx Tower 2, Dubai, UAE, 2022
Art Beams, Brooklyn Square, Brooklyn, NY, 2022
House of Words, façade & lobby for apartment building, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY, 2016
Nothing is Wasted, plywood artwork for 247 W 38th St., NY, 2015
Castle Braid, complete art direction for 150-unit residential building, Brooklyn, NY, 2010–2016
Crescent Club, 12ft x 12ft wall relief, Long Island City, NY, 2016
Conference Room Artwork, Wiese Realty, Brooklyn, NY, 2012
Garage Door (based on A Tree Grows in Brooklyn), 114 Troutman St., Brooklyn, NY, 2010
Mama, Mother Nature, Zuzeum Art Museum, Riga, Latvia, 2026
Mama, Mother Nature, Museum of Modern Art, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2025
Mama, Mother Nature, London Design Biennale, London, UK, 2025
Mama, Mother Nature, National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome, Italy, 2025
Mama, Mother Nature, The Art Center, Bahrain, 2025
Mama, Mother Nature, Heydar Aliyev Center, Baku, Azerbaijan, 2024
Two-Person Show, O Art Space, Lahore, Pakistan, 2024
India Art Fair, New Delhi, India (2021–2025)
Mumbai Art Fair, Mumbai, India, 2024
Tossed: Art from Discarded, Found & Re-purposed Materials, Middlebury College Museum of Art, VT, 2023
Together & Apart, Studio Art, 2021
Drawing Room Diamonds, Sanat Initiative, Karachi, 2019
Silent Conflicts, Studio Art, New Delhi, India, 2019
2nd Karachi Biennale, installation “I Am Not Your Bitch Anymore,” Monkey Cage, Karachi Zoo, 2019
An Apology to Sheikh Ayaz, Chawkandi Gallery, Karachi, 2019
Lucid Dreams and Distant Visions, Asia Society Museum, NY, 2017
56th Venice Biennale, Azerbaijan Pavilion (Vita Vitale), curated by Artwise, 2015
Here Today..., for the 50th Anniversary of IUCN Red List, London, UK, 2014
Art Festival Watou, Watou, Belgium, 2014
Brain Drain, Art 14, London, UK, 2014
Twelve Gates Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2013
Paper or Plastic, two-person show, Temp Gallery, Sacramento, CA, 2012
Body Double, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI, 2012
Slick Art Fair, Paris, France, 2011
State of Things, Aicon Gallery, London, UK, 2009
End of Oil, Exit Art, NY, 2009
Engendered, New York, 2009
Erasing Borders, Dowd Gallery, Cortland, NY, 2009
Duet: Khalil Chishtee & Ruby Chishti, Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA, 2009
Art Fairs: Hong Kong (2008), Dubai (2008), with Green Cardamom
Earlier Exhibitions in Pakistan, UK, USA (1993–2008) include shows at National Art Gallery Islamabad, VM Gallery Karachi, NCA Lahore, Exit Art NYC, and others.
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 Guzarti 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, Rohtas Gallery, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2007
My Show, Witt Gallery, CSUS, CA, USA, 2006
New Works, Robert Else Gallery, CSUS, CA, USA, 2005
Residencies & Retreats
RM Studio Retreat, Lahore, 2024
Waste to Art, Baku, Azerbaijan (2014 & 2024)
Myths-Upcycled, Kunststation Kleinsassen, Germany, 2018
Studio RM Artist Retreat, Lahore, 2024
Vasl Art Trust Residency, Karachi, 2008
Wassani Workshop, Nairobi, Kenya, 1998
Lectures / Talks
Institute of Design & Visual Arts, LCWU, 2024
College of Art & Design, Punjab University, 2024
Sacramento State University, 2012
National College of Arts, Lahore & Rawalpindi, 2010
Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA, 2009
Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi, 2008
MoCLA Magazine: Profile & Interview
LifeWTR Artist Feature: Profile
Indian Express: Artist Interview
Hi-Fructose Magazine: Plastic Bag Sculptures
Combustus: Feature Article
Nukta Art Magazine: Without the Right of Knock by Shazia Zuberi
The News (Pakistan):
“Acts of Simulation” by Asim Akhtar
Interview: “In Conversation with Khalil Chishtee”
Sacramento Bee: Trash to Treasure by Bob Silva
Videos & Media
Berlin Baku Gallery Exhibition: Vimeo
One After the Other: YouTube
Broke Messiahs I & II: YouTube
Pinterest Archive: Artboard
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