Sheherezade Alam (1947/1948 – 19 May 2022) was a Pakistani
ceramist
Ceramic art is art made from ceramic materials, including clay. It may take forms including artistic pottery, including tableware, tiles, figurines and other sculpture. As one of the plastic arts, ceramic art is one of the visual arts. Whil ...
.
Education and family
Alam was born in
Pakistan to
Mahmoud Alam
Mahmoud Alam (born in British India) is a former tennis player from Pakistan, who represented the country in the Davis Cup and also played at Wimbledon.
Wimbledon
He is the first Pakistani to reach the second round in 1948 at Wimbledon during t ...
, a Pakistani former
tennis player and his wife, Surayya, in
Lahore.
She had two brothers, Asad and Shaban. Brought up in Lahore, she completed her FA from its
Kinnaird College.
She went on to obtain her
Bachelor of Fine Arts
A Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) is a standard undergraduate degree for students for pursuing a professional education in the visual, fine or performing arts. It is also called Bachelor of Visual Arts (BVA) in some cases.
Background
The Bachelor ...
(BFA) in Design with a distinction in ceramics from Lahore's
National College of Arts (NCA), where she studied under the country's first ceramist,
Salahuddin Mian. She later became an artist-in-residence at
Yale University. She taught at the NCA, as well as at
Bilkent University (
Ankara, Turkey).
Personal life
In 1971, she married
Zahoor ul Akhlaq
Zahoor ul Akhlaq (4 February 1941 – 18 January 1999) was a pioneering artist from Pakistan. He is known for his approach to painting, sculpture, design and architecture, as well as his teaching at the NCA ( National College of Arts) in ...
(1941–1999), a painter, and the couple had two daughters, Jahanara (1974–1999) and Nurjahan (b. 1979). Zahoor and Jahanara were murdered in their home in
Lahore in 1999 by a visiting acquaintance, Shahzad Butt, a roti merchant of the city. The killer could give no reason for having turned his gun on them.
Career
Shows
Group
* 1980: Sultan Art Gallery,
Kuwait
* 1983: Group Show,
British Council,
Islamabad
* 1983: Group Show, Rohtas Gallery, Islamabad
* 1988: Joint exhibition,
Yale University,
New Haven, USA
* 1995 to 1999: Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition (yearly)
* 2009: Group Show, Vogue Art Gallery, Islamabad.
Group exhibition opens at Vogue Art Gallery
Daily Times 21 November 2009. 26 October 2010.
Solo
* 1990: Chawkandi Arts, Karachi
* 1993: Ish Gallery, Ankara, Turkey
* 1994: Bismillah, Arcadia Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
* 1996: Clay Continuum, Gardiner Art Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
* 2004: Offering Bowls, Arcadia Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
* 2005: Laali, Ceramic Installation, Private Residence, Lahore
* 2006: Laali, The garden of Imran Mir, Karachi
References
1940s births
2022 deaths
Date of birth unknown
Pakistani ceramists
Pakistani potters
Kinnaird College for Women University alumni
National College of Arts alumni
Artists from Lahore
Women potters
Pakistani women ceramists
20th-century ceramists
20th-century Pakistani artists
21st-century ceramists
21st-century Pakistani artists
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