We are pleased to present new paintings, drawings and light installations by Anila Quayyum Agha, the acclaimed Pakistani-American artist known for her immersive, illuminated, suspended cubes.
Agha's work has been the subject of eight solo museum shows since A dozen more shows are slated. For this exhibition, she reimagines ornamental patterns from history in metal, resin and paper using traditional and contemporary techniques of craft. The work, which ranges from monumental laser-cut steel sculptures to intimate hand-embroidered drawings, pays homage to artists and craftspeople who historically have gone unrecognized and unnamed despite the importance of their artistic output. This is Agha's first solo exhibition at Sundaram Tagore New York.
EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS
The show’s centerpiece is an immersive large-scale light installation commissioned by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Texas in A Beautiful Despair is part of Agha’s award-winning cube series, which has garnered critical recognition and drawn crowds in museums and public spaces around the world
Anila Quayyum Agha
Anila Quayyum Agha was born in Lahore, Pakistan. She received a BFA from the National College of Arts, Lahore, and an MFA from University of North Texas. Agha resides in Indianapolis, IN, and Augusta, GA. In , Agha was appointed the Morris Eminent Scholar in Art at Augusta University in Georgia. Agha's work has been exhibited in numerous museums, including Kew: Royal Botanical Gardens, London, UK; Museum of Oriental Art, Turin, Italy; The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA; and National Sculpture Museum, Valladolid, Spain. Agha was included in the Venice Biennale collateral event, She Persists. Her major awards include the Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship (), ArtPrize (Juried and Public Vote Grand Prize, ), a Research Scholar Award from Indiana University, the Cincinnati Art Museum Schiele Prize (), and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant (). In she was awarded the Smithsonian Fellowship in the Arts. Her work has been collected by institutions and private collectors nationally and internationally.
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Painters & Sculptors Grant,
Starting with familiar Islamic motifs that
Anila Quayyum Agha (b. , Lahore, Pakistan) is a Pakistani-American artist who works in a cross-disciplinary fashion with mixed media. She explores global politics, cultural multiplicity, mass media, and social and gender roles. As a result, her artwork is a conceptually challenging mixture of thought, artistic action and social experience. Since her work has been featured in thirteen solo museum exhibitions. Her work was most recently on view in the group exhibition Reorientations: Europe and the Islamic Arts, to the Present at Kunsthaus Zurich. She currently has two sculptural works on view through September 17, , at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew in the U.K.
Agha is internationally recognized for her large-scale cube installations that use light and pattern to immerse viewers in shared experiences and inclusive spaces. The patterns Agha laser cuts into the lacquered-steel cubes are a reinterpretation of floral and geometric motifs found in Islamic art and architecture in Asia and Africa. Suspended and lit from within, the cubes cast elaborate floor-to-ceiling shadows that transform t
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