YAMINAY CHAUDHRI [email protected] http://www.yaminay.com http://www.tentativecollective.com

EDUCATION

MFA. STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY. 2009-2011 B-ARCH. CORNELL UNIVERSITY. 1997-2002

RESIDENCIES

THE GOODS SHED (FORM) Artist in Residence. Perth, Australia. 2016 JENTEL ARTIST RESIDENCY. Wyoming, U.S.A. 2012 VERMONT STUDIO CENTER Artist In Residence. Vermont, U.S.A. 2012 NORTH AFRICA PROGRAM: Cornell University summer abroad program. Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia. Spain. 2001 ROME PROGRAM. Cornell University semester abroad. Italy. 2000

GRANTS/ AWARDS

Cornell University International Student Scholarship. Full tuition [inancial aid award 1997-2002 New York Foundation for the Arts [iscal sponsorship for Mera Mobile Cinema. 2012- 2016 National University of Singapore, Asia Research Institute project grant for Mera Karachi Mobile Cinema. 2013 Peace Innovations Fund Grant for Mera Karachi Mobile Cinema. United States Institute of Peace. 2013-2015 Prince Claus Fund. Travel Grant awarded to present work at the Dhaka Art Summit, 2016.

COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS

TENTATIVE COLLECTIVE. Founding member 2011- ongoing: - Shershah and Other Stories. Cosmopolis #1, Centre Georges Pompidou. October 18- December 18, 2017. - Waste Agency. Presented at the Akademie der Kunst, Berlin. 2016. - Transcribed Text For a Lost Moment . Kunstraum Bethanien. Berlin. September 10, 2016. - The Gandi Engine Commission. Site speci[ic workshop commissioned by Lahore Biennale Foundation. Lahore. 2015 - Mera Karachi Mobile Cinema. Project Lead. Curated 10 screenings in various parts of Karachi. 2012-2015 - A Pakhtun Memory. Project lead, camera and editing. Shirin Jinnah Colony. Karachi. 2011 - Beyond Walls. Project Lead. Public art intervention. Benazir Bhutto Park. Karachi. 2011

FAILUREtalks Symposium. Co-organizer and contributor. UAlbany Art Department. Albany, NY. 2011 FAILURE. Curator. Collar Works Art Gallery. Troy, NY. 2011

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS (Individual practice)

- AAN Gandhara-Art Space. Rooms are Never Finished. (Solo Show). Karachi. November 16- December 09, 2017. https://drive.google.com/[ile/d/101nsnm-toeOWdiELvzd8dXOowcJLdUry/view - National Academy of Performing Arts. International Theater and Music Fest. About Time. Curator Hajra Haider. Karachi, March 28, 2016. https://images.dawn.com/news/1175072 - Twelve Gates Arts. 5 Pakistani artists. Curator Na[isa Rizvi. Philadelphia. October 2, 2015 - VM Art Gallery. Exhausted Geographies. Curator Zahra Malkani, Shahana Rajani. Karachi. September 8, 2015 - KOEL Gallery. And nothing but the truth: Parrhesia II. Curator Zarmeene Shah. Karachi. June 16, 2015. https:// www.dawn.com/news/1194991 - Gandhara Art Space. The Science of Taking a Walk. Curator Hajra Haider. Karachi. May 21, 2015. https:// tribune.com.pk/story/909002/art-review-the-science-of-taking-a-walk-a-walk-to-remember/ - Karachi Literature Festival, Art Section. Speaking in Tongues. Curator Zarmeene Shah. Karachi. Feb 7, 2015 - Amin Gulgee Gallery Dreamscape. Curators Amin Gulgee and Zarmeene Shah. Karachi. Dec. 18, 2014 - VBB. Women Under Siege, Parts 1, 2: A Living Room Art Production. Houston, TX. 2012 - Emery Center at the University of Maine Farmington. In The Realm Of Folklore. 2012 - University Art Museum, State University of New York at Albany. Thesis Show. 2011 - Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Regional. Albany Institute of History and Art. Meeting With Strangers. Juror Holly Hughes Albany, NY. 2011 - Collar Works Art Gallery. Failure. Troy, NY. 2011

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS (collaborative practice)

- Centre Georges Pompidou. Shershah and Other Stories. (Tentative Collective). Part of Cosmopolis #1, Collective Intelligence. Curator Kathryn Weir. Paris. October 18- December 18, 2017. www.e-[lux.com/announcements/ 145713/cosmopolis-1-collective-intelligence/ - Manchester Art Gallery. Missing. (Tentative Collective). Solo show, part of New North and South commission. - Saturday 30 September 2017–Sunday 4 February 2018. http://manchesterartgallery.org/exhibitions-and-events/ exhibition/tentative-collective/ - Kunstraum Bethanien. Digging Deep Crossing Far. (Tentative Collective). Curators Julie Tieke and Elke Falat. Berlin. September 10, 2016. http://digging-deep-crossing-far.de/en/artist-the-tentative-collective/ - Digital Marrakech Festival 4th edition. A Pakhtun Memory. Arab Media Lab Foundation. Marrakech. Nov. 28, 2014 - CityPossible Film Festival III. A Pakhtun Memory. Singapore. Nov. 6, 2014 - Karachi Conference Film Festival. A Pakhtun Memory. Karachi. Nov. 23, 2014 - Pursukoon Karachi Art Festival. The Brothers (Mera Karachi Mobile Cinema). Karachi. 2013 - Galerie Polaris. Sunday Screening #9: Tentative Collective. Paris. Oct. 6, 2013 - VBB living room art | Borderlines production: Exploring Rituals. Houston, TX. Dec 7, 2013 - Syracuse International Film Festival. A Pakhtun Memory. Syracuse, NY. 2012 - Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Regional. University Art Museum. A Pakhtun Memory. Winner Juror’s Award by Nato Thompson. Albany, NY. 2012

SELECTED PRESS Ammara Jabbar. Rooms are Never Finished. ArtNow. 2 Dec. 2017. Web http://www.artnowpakistan.com/rooms-are- never-[inished/ Abdullah, Adam. "COVER: Mapping Karachi." Dawn Magazine. Dawn News, 31 Jan. 2016. Web. http://www.dawn.com/ news/1236376/cover-mapping-karachi Sharpe, Gemma. "Art Now | But it Looks Like Art!"Art Now Contemporary Art of Pakistan. Jan. 2015. Web Malkani, Zahra. "Art Now Pakistan | Parde Mein Rehne Do, Parda Na Uthao: Opacity And The Refusal To Represent In Contemporary Artworks In Karachi." Art Now Contemporary Art of Pakistan. Dec. 2013. Web Chaudhri, Yaminay N. "Films by Rickshaw: The Tentative Collective." Interview by Hira Nabi. Rising Voices. 22 Apr. 2013. Web. Chaudhri, Yaminay. "The Tentative Collective: Karachi Mobile Cinema." Interview by Hira Nabi. Mashallah News → http://www.mashallahnews.com/the-tentative-collective/ Lavery, Ariel, ed. In the Realm of Folklore. Farmington: U of Maine Farmington, 2012. Print. (Exhibition Catalogue) Lerner, Liz C. "Failure, the Show." All Over Albany. 25 Mar. 2011. Web. Siddiqui, Nadir. "The Art of Protest." Dawn.com. DawnNews, 23 Dec. 2011. Web. Siddiqui, Nadir. "Going "Beyond Walls"" Dawn Multimedia. DawnNews, 20 Dec. 2011. Web. Thompson, Nato. "Occupy Everything." 2012 Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region. University at Albany, 2012. 8-19. Print. (Exhibition Catalogue. https://goo.gl/cAheOV) "MoMA.org | Interactives | Exhibitions | 2004 | Tall Buildings." Ed. Terence Riley. MoMA, 2004. Web. .

2 Nordenson, Guy. "Kowloon Station Tower." Tall Buildings. Ed. Terence Riley. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2003. 150-55. Print.

WRITING

"Portraits of an Imperfect Beloved." Look at the City From Here. Ed. Hajra Haider. 22 July 2016. Print. https://goo.gl/Bqw9IR “Notes from my Journal: a Visit to Bangladesh.” Art Now. 1 March. 2016. Web. https://goo.gl/LoJQsc "Conversations about Public Art: an Homage to Complex Form." Art Now. 3 Nov. 2015. Web. https://goo.gl/7sqjPk "Anxious Public Space (a preface)." The Herald. 15 Oct. 2015. Web. http://herald.dawn.com/news/1153271 "Separation’s Geography." Exhausted Geographies. Ed. Zahra Malkani, Shahana Rajani. 7 Sept 2015. Print. https://goo.gl/RjXhHX Co-authored with Nausheen H. Anwar. "Mera Karachi Mobile Cinema: Projection, Perception & Public Space." Web log post. Asian Urbanisms Blog. Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, 4 Dec. 2013. Web. "Karachi: Cell Phone Videos Tell Stories of Migrant Life." Creative Time Reports. 9 Jan. 2013. Web. Re-posted. 3quarksdaily. 2 Feb. 2013 and ArtAsiaPaci`ic Blog. 22 Jan. 2013. Web. "Mera Karachi Mobile Cinema: Methodology of Representation." Karachi Conference Journal 1. Comp. Aliya I. Naqvi. Print. https://goo.gl/rKbZKG "Migration Reports from Karachi #1: Who Cares?" Video blog post. Sanctuary for Independent Media. New York Media Alliance, 17 Oct. 2011. Web. "Privilege: A Conversation About Artists, and Subalternity." NuktaArt Magazine 7.1 (2012): 54-59. Print.

TALKS

Waste Agency. Round table paper presentation with Tentative Collective, Akademie der Kunst. Berlin. May 21 2016. Art Initiatives Off the Center. Dhaka Art Summit, invited speaker representing Tentative Collective. Dhaka. Feb 5 2016. Cell Phone Cities. Artistic Interventions: Histories, Cartographies and Politics in Asia. International Institute for Asian Studies and Hong Kong Baptist University. Hong Kong. March 30-April 2, 2015 Low-res. Video Workshop. The Sarai Programme, CSDS. Delhi. Feb 21, 2015 A Pakhtun Memory. CityPossible Film Festival III. Asia Research Institute NUS. Singapore. Nov 6 2014 Mera Karachi Mobile Cinema: Projection, Perception. The First International Karachi Conference. 2013 Creative Leadership: Mera Karachi Mobile Cinema. National Museum, Karachi. 2014 Art Politics. . Humanities and Social Sciences Lectures, Karachi. 2013 Subjectivity and Belonging. Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi. 2013 Art in Public Space. Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi. 2013 Art and Activism: A Talk On Migration And Longing. The Second Floor (T2F), Karachi. 2011 Methodology: Video Art. Guest lecturer for Dr. Nausheen H. Anwar. IBA, Karachi. 2011 New work. Jinnah University College, Karachi. 2011. Recent Works On Migration And Belonging. Jinnah Medical College, Karachi. 2011 Meeting With Strangers. Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY. 2011

TEACHING

Habib University, Visiting Faculty. Communication Design 2 illustration module. Drawing. https://goo.gl/5mgYts. Spring 2016. SZABIST, Media Sciences department (Graduate level). Visiting Faculty. Specters of the Post Colonial City . https://goo.gl/Xjv2OR. Spring, 2015. Aga Khan University, Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty. Explorations in Contemporary Art and New Media. https://goo.gl/w7iPrD. Winter, 2014-2015.

3 Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture. Art Department. Adjunct Faculty. Art and Society. https://goo.gl/im1cHh. Fall, 2014 . Visual Studies Department. Adjunct Faculty. Art and Society. Fall, 2013 Creative Partnerships UK & VASL. Workshop leader at Kiran School. Lyari. Spring, 2014 SUNY Albany. Art Department. Instructor of Record. 3-dimensional Design. https://goo.gl/X8yeVu. 2010-11. Albany, NY SUNY Albany. Art Department. Studio Experiments. Teaching assistant. Spring, 2010 Grand Street Community Arts: Vacant Lots Project. Design teacher for inner city youth group. Albany, NY. 2009

Juror on the University of Karachi Fine Arts Thesis Shows 2012-15, SZABIST MS Media Studies thesis review, Cornell University Architecture Summer Program, Barnard College Architecture [inal reviews.

OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE

Founder. Tentative Collective. Karachi, Pakistan and Upstate NY. 2011-current Director, Producer. Sanctuary For Independent Media. Troy, NY. 2011-2012 Graphic Designer. Center For Jewish Studies. University At Albany. Albany, NY. 2010-2012 Architecture Designer. Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, NY. Kowloon Station Tower (ICC). Hong Kong. 2004-2008 Architecture Designer. Cannon Design. Boston, MA. 2003-2004 Research assistant Felecia Davis. Co-Lab. 'Project Row Houses' (Rick Lowe). Ithaca, NY. 2002-2003

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