TALHA RATHORE

E-mail:   talharathore@gmail.com

Website: http://www.talharathore.com/

 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

 

2022               “Shades of Tranquility” Chawkandi Art Gallery, Karachi Pakistan

2020                “Indispositions”, Chawkandi Art Gallery, Karachi Pakistan.

2014                “Celebrating Life”, Chawkandi Art Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan.

2011                “Sowing Seeds”, Chawkandi Art Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan.

2010                “Personal Atlas”, Rohtas II Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan.

2008                “Memory/Metamorphosis”, Hong Kong Visual Art   

                        Center/Gandhara Art Gallery, Hong Kong.

2008                “Unclaimed Territories”, Aicon Gallery, NewYork, USA.       

2007                “Seeking, Seeping, Spreading”, Rohtas II Gallery, Lahore,

                         Pakistan.                   

2004                “Between Worlds”, Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi, India.

2003                “Between Worlds”, Bose Pacia Modern Gallery, New York, USA.

1998                 Gallery Espace, New Delhi, India.

1996                 Alliance Francaise Gallery French Center, Lahore, Pakistan.

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

 

2025                “A Thousand Rose Petals” Rohtas 2 ‘A Colletral Event with the

                         NCA Triennale’, Lahore Pakistan (Two Person Show)         

2024                “Dil Na Umeed Tou Nahi” Alhamra Art Gallery, Lahore Pakistan

2011                “Palimpsest” Aicon Gallery, NY, USA.

2011                “Erasing Borders”, IAAC, Queens Museum, NY, USA.

2010                “Erasing Borders 2010”, Indo-American Arts Council. NJ, PA, and

                        NY, USA.

2010                “A Delicate Point: Images from a South Asian Diaspora”, OSilas

                        Gallery,Concordia College, NY, USA.

2009                “Gulf Art Fair”, Dubai.

2009                “Threshold, Forging Narratives in South Asian Contemporary Art”,

                        Aicon Gallery, New York, USA.

2008                "Conversations Across Cultures: South Asian Imaginaries",

                        Columbia University, New York, USA.

2008                “Hong Kong Art Fair”, Hong Kong.

2007                “Continuity and Change: Islamic Tradition in Contemporary Art”,

                         The Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, New York, USA

2007                “Lahore Lovelies” Two person show at Aicon Gallery, London, UK

2007                “Gulf Art Fair”, Medinate Arena, Dubai.

2006                “Gendering Detail”, Art Square Gallery, Toronto, Canada..

2006                “Karkhana, A contemporary Collaboration”, The Asian Art

                        Museum, San Francisco, USA.

2005                “Karkhana, A contemporary Collaboration”, The Aldrich

                        Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut, US.

2005               “Beyond Borders” National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India.

2005               “Re-Inventing Narratives”, La galerie Mohamed el Fassi, Rabat,

                       Morocco.

2004               “Contemporary Miniature Paintings from Pakistan”, Fukuoka Asian

                       Art Museum, Japan.

2004               “Karkhana” show, Rochedale, UK

2004                Fine Art Resource gallery, Berlin, Germany.

2003                Group Show at Sidhartha Gallery, Khatmandu, Nepal

2002               “Borderless Terrain” Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Center,

                       India.           

2002               “Transforming Tradition: Contemporary Visions from Pakistan”

                       World Bank Art Gallery, Washington DC, U.S.A.                                                                                                 

2002               Two Person Show, United Nation Gallery, New York, U.S.A.

2001               Group Show “In an exuberant and profuse manner”, BosePacia     

                      Gallery, New York, U.S.A.

2000              “Pakistan Another Vision”

                      Brunei Gallery, London, UK.

                      Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield, UK.

                      Center for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, UK.

                      Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, UK.

1999               International Exhibition of Common Wealth, National Art Gallery,       

                      Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

1998               Sanskriti Kendra Village, New Delhi, India.

1997               Art Connoisseur Gallery, London, England.

                      Gallery Martini, Hong Kong, China.

1997               Hong Kong Art Center Gallery, Hong Kong, China.

1997               Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Gallery, Hong

                      Kong,China.

1992-2002       Participated in several group show in Islamabad (Offset Portfolio

                      Center, Rohtas Gallery, Lok Virsa Gallery, National Arts Council

                      Gallery), Lahore (Alhamra, Gallery NCA, Sim Sim Gallery, Alliance

                      Francaise Gallery, Punjab Art Council) and Karachi ( Chawkandi

                      Art Gallery, Zannani Art Gallery)

 

PUBLICATIONS:

 

2022                What grows silently in the dark, The News, 27 November

2022                Peerzada Salma, Dawn Pakistan, 27 November

2020                Maheen Aziz, Depicting life through Indispositions” The News 31  

                       March

2018                Suljuk Tarar, “Enririching two lands at once”. The Friday Times

                       27 April

2014                M. Saeed Kureshi,“Art Beat: As above, So below”, DAWN

                       Sunday Magazine, Pakistan, Sunday March 17.     

2014                Peerzada Salman, “Life as it is”, Dawn.com, Pakistan, Monday

                       March 3.

2011                Shamim Akhtar,”Speaking Freudianly,” Pakistan Art Review,

                       Pakistan Friday November 4.

2011                Amina R. Ali,”The Meticulous Contemporary Miniature of Talha

                       Rathore” Newsline, Pakistan October 16.

2011                Peerzada Salman,“When The Heart Finds Its Shore” Dawn,

                        Pakistan. September 14.                        

2008                Farah Rahim Ismail, ‘Passage from India”, Art Quarterly, Winter.

2008                Salima Hashmi, “Memory/Metamorphosis”, Gandhara Art, Hong

                       Kong.

2008                Swapna Vora,  Asianart.com, New York.

2008                Salima Hashmi, “Unclaimed Territories”, Aicon Gallery, New

                       York.                         

2007                Michael Glover, “Of Mughals and Manhattan”, The Independent,

                       UK.

2007                “Contemporary Miniatures by Talha Rathore and Hasnat

                       Mehmood,” artdaily.org Monday, July 9.  

2007                Julia Dawson, “Born Cartographies,” The Friday Times,  

                       Pakistan

2007                Projjal Dutta, “Lahore Lovelies,” Aicon Gallery, London, UK

2007                Quddus Mirza, “Metro World Miniature Art”, Rohtas 2, Lahore, 

                       Pakistan.

2007                Salima Hashmi, “Radicalising Tradition: Painting in Pakistan,”

                       Artlink, Vol 20 no 2, Australia.

2007                Quddus Mirza,“Mapping Alien territories”, The News, Pakistan.

2004                Virginia Whiles, “Contemporary Miniature Paintings from  

                       Pakistan,” in Contemporary Miniature Paintings from Pakistan,  

                       (Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan.)

2004                Hammad Nasar, “Rochdale Remembrance,” Herald, Pakistan.

2003                Holland Cotter, “Art Review; Millenniums of Asia, Packed Into a

                       Week,” New York Times, New York.             

2003                Salima Hashmi, “Between Worlds and other Matters,” in Talha   

                       Rathore: Between Worlds, Bose Pacia, New York.

2003                Quddus Mirza, “Maps of Mind the Art of Talha Rathore,” in Talha.

                       Rathore: Between Worlds, Bose Pacia, New York

2002                Salima Hashmi, Unveiling the Visible, Lives and Works of   

                       Women Artists of Pakistan”, Islamabad, Pakistan.

2001                Roberta Smith, “Art in Review; In an Exuberant and Profuse

                       Manner,” New York Times, New York.

2000                Salima Hashmi, “Radicalising Tradition,” Art Link, Issue 20 No 2,

                       India.

1998                Ratnottama Sengupta, “It’s Yesterday Once More,” Sunday  

                       Times of India, India.

1.                  Amra Ali, “Reaching the Old in New Language,”

                       Sunday, Pakistan. 

 

WORKSHOPS:

 

2011               Demonstration of techniques of Miniature Painting, Asian Art

                      Museum, San Francisco, USA

2004               Demonstration of techniques of Miniature Painting, Metropolitan

                      Museum of Art, New York, USA.

 

EDUCATION:

1995               B.A Fine Art, National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan.

                      (Specialized in Miniature Painting)