About
In my art practice I situate the work within historical contexts. Culling from personal history, then from wider social, political and cultural contexts. Utilizing the history of subjects and mediums I work with, appropriating images from mass media, from systems of knowledge production: I am questioning both what is included and excluded. What is archived and what remains ephemeral. Translation becomes a tool to dissect divisive rhetoric and a site for discursive intervention.
Amina Shah
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AMINA SHAH
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2018 Vernissage, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
You Were Here, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 Evolving Office: An Arte Útil Project, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Portraits In Ceramics, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Presentation of Collaborative Project at Escuela de Arte Útil, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2016 Lucky Dragons: User Agreement. Performance Participant, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Open Studio Show, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015 Painting and Drawing Exhibition, Lahore, Pakistan
Installation at the National Sculpture Exhibition, Pakistan National Council for the Arts, Alhambra Art Gallery,
FILM SCREENINGS
2018 MFA Film Festival, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2017 Cinegram, 3 Minute Loop, 16mm, Silent, Installation.
Animation Film Screening, New Nothing Cinema, San Francisco, CA
Paralellisms, Digitized 16mm Film Hybrid, Super Moon Spectacles, Artists Television Access, San Francisco, CA
PROJECTS
2017 Escuela de Arte Útil, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
EDUCATION
Masters of Fine Arts, Studio Art, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Bachelor of Fine Arts, National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan