About Artist
Waseem Mushtaq Wani was born in 1973 in Kupwara in Kashmir. He is a founder member of Contemporary Art Foundation ( NGO to practice and promote art awareness in Kashmir), which was active from 1995 to 1999. He received a BFA degree from the Institute of Music & Fine Art, Srinagar in 2000 and an MFA in Painting from Visva Bharati Santinekatan in 2003. He has participated in numerous exhibitions of contemporary art as well as held solo exhibitions of his work. In 2007 Waseem was one of the invited artist in the Khoj Kasheer International Artists Residency at Srinagar. In 2008, Waseem presented two Short Films ( Rahi Zindagi tu Phir Milenge and Shopkeeper) in the workshop ‘Logistics of Perception: Images from Conflict Zones’ organized by MAJLIS( Mumbai) at Adi Shakti Pondicherry. In 2009 he was invited as one of the artist in the workshop IMAGINE PEACE by Khoj International Artists, Khirki New Delhi. He is currently a lecturer in the department of Fine Art, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh.
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