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Syed Ammad Tahir

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Karachi-based artist and educator, Syed Ammad Tahir holds a BFA from the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, where he is now a member of the visiting faculty. His practice includes drawing, painting and performance, and he has featured in theatre and television dramas in Pakistan. Exhibitions of his work have taken place at the VM Gallery, the IVS Gallery, Poppy Seed and the Karachi School of Art galleries in Karachi, and he has also shown work at Rohtas Gallery in Lahore. His performances and works on paper explore similar narratives of urbanity, the body, and political bureaucracy, and he has undertaken a number of mural projects across Karachi. He is a member of the working group at Vasl Artists’ Collective.