- Biographic Note
Masood Alam Khan a.k.a. Masood A. Khan’s ancestors belong to south India of Tamel speaking. His paternal side belongs to Madras, Chittur, Kelar and maternal from Hyderabad Dakkan, Bangaloor. His father in his young age left his whole family in India and migrated alone to East Pakistan now Bangladesh.
Masood A. Khan was born in Kushtia, in __________. At the age of eleven he saw the fall of Dhaka. In the horrifying morning of the 18th day of war between India and Pakistan he saw the Indian army entering in Chittagong. His helpless family along with 100 other Urdu speaking family were waiting for a help in Agrabad Colony. Within a week time Indian army took them all to cantonment area as civilian prisoners of war.
- Artist Statement
The recent body of my artwork is the continuation of my past twenty-two appearances at various art galleries in Pakistan and abroad. At each appearance I adopted a new vocabulary to paint the essence of truth with lines and layers. As transparency is the quintessence of naked reality, which remains constant on my surfaces. With a blend of feelings, I express reality around through realism coupled with modernism. In the remote recesses of my subconscious lies an effort to create a spiritual climate that touches the heart. I feel a new liberty when the beauty of every form is clear, visible and not overlapping each other, creates a multidimensional view. I don’t need to distort the naturalistic forms as done in cubism or other school of thought in art.
I have externalized my outrage pat the hypocrisy-religious, social, economics-that cloaks and disguises our true intentions. In my works, a world emphasizing the simplicity and joy of spiritual, content versus the present, contemporary situation with all its perils, I have peeled off layer by layer, the fables that determine our lives. My work is search of new possibilities in realism.
- Artwork Review
In the remote recesses of his subconscious lies an effort to create a spiritual climate that touches the heart. He feels a new liberty when the beauty of every form is clear, visible and not overlapping, thereby creating a multidimensional view. He doesn’t need to distort the naturalistic forms as done in cubism or other isms of art. He has externalized his outrage at the hypocrisy, religious, social, economic that cloaks and disguises our true intentions. In his works, a world emphasizing the simplicity and joy of spiritual content versus the present contemporary situation with all its perils, he has peeled off layer by layer, the fables that determine our lives, ” the artist’s statement reads.
- Credentials
Solo Shows
2022 SANAT GALLERY KARACHI, Pakistan
2018 KOEL GALLERY KARACHI, Pakistan
2016 CANVAS GALLERY KARACHI, Pakistan
2014 ART CHOWK GALLERY KARACHI, Pakistan
2013 KOEL GALLERY KARACHI, Pakistan
2012 NOMAD GALLERY ISLAMABAD, Pakistan
2011 CANVAS ART GALLERY KARACH, Pakistan
2010 GALLERY 6, ISLAMABAD, Pakistan
2008 EJAZ ART GALLERY LAHORE, Pakistan
2007 CHAWKANDI ART GALLERY KARACHI, Pakistan
2006 INDESIGN LAHORE, Pakistan 2006 NOMAD GALLERY ISLAMABAD, Pakistan
2005 CROWEATER ART GALLERY LAHORE, Pakistan
2004 CANVAS GALLERY KARACHI, Pakistan 2004 NOMAD GALLERY ISLAMABAD, Pakistan
2003 CROWEATER ART GALLERY LAHORE, Pakistan 2003 NOMAD ART GALLERY ISLAMABAD, Pakistan
2002 NOMAD ART GALLERY ISLAMABAD, Pakistan 2001 ZANAINY ART GALLERY KARACHI, Pakistan
2000 THE ART GALLERY ISLAMABAD, Pakistan 1999 ZANAINY ART GALLERY, KARACHI, Pakistan
Group Exhibitions
2023 SANAT GALLERY KARACHI, Pakistan
2017 ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL GALLERY “II COLLEZIONISTA, GALLERY LA PIGNA ROME, Italy
2015 RESIDENCY DACIA GALLERY NEW-YORK, USA 2013 REPRESENTED PAKISTAN IN BEIJING, China
2012 LEADING MASTERS OF PAKISTANI PAINTERS, MUMBAI, INDIA
2011 SELECTED PARTICIPANT OF THE BIENNALE OF ITALY, Italy
2010 TWO MAN SHOW ART CHAWK KARACHI, Pakistan
2009 OLD AHD NEW MASTERS OF PAKISTAN, ARTSCENE, KARACHI, Pakistan
2008 ARTISTS OF PAKISTAN SHOW ORGANISED BY MOMART DUBAI, UAE
2007 EAST WEST EDUCATION CENTRE HONOLULU, Hawaii, USA
2007 LEADING ARTIST OF PAKISTAN SHOW ORGANISED BY EJAZ GALLERY IN SHARJAH,
2006 GROUP SHOW ORGANISED BY JI ART GALLERY, DUBAI, UAE
2000 MILLENNIUM SHOW, MALL GALLERY LONDON, UK
1993 DEVENPORT GALLERY AUCKLAND, New Zealand
1992 CLIFTON ART GALLERY KARACHI, Pakistan
1991 GOETEY INSTITUTE KARACHI, Pakistan
1990 VM ART GALLERY KARACHI, Pakistan
AWARDS
2021 HONOUR AWARD 7th GEOJE INT FESTIVAL ‘PEACE AGAIN’, South Korea
2011 1st PRIZE-THE EUROPEAN CONFEDERATION OF ART CRITICS AWARDED FOR WORKS ON PAPER – AN INTERNATIONAL BIENNALE IN CHIANCIANO, Italy
1992 3rd PRIZE FOR PAINTING COMPETITION ORGANISED BY ROTARY CLUB OF PAKISTAN AT ART COUNCIL KARACHI, Pakistan
WORKS IN THE COLLECTIONS OF
- STATE BANK OF PAKISTAN (AT GOVERNOR’S FLOOR) VIP LOUNGE JINNAH TERMINAL KARACHI, Pakistan
- STANDARD CHARTERED BANK KARACHI, Pakistan
- ASKARI BANK KARACHI, Pakistan
- ANGLO ITALIAN ACADEMY OF ART WINSON N’NEWTON LONDON, UK ARTIST
TALK/SLIDE SHOW &LECTURES
2021 RM NAEEM’S STUDIO, Lahore, Karachi, Pakistan
2020 ONLINE LECTURES KUSHTIA BANGLADESH, DHAKA UNIVERSITY, Bangladesh
2006 NOMAD ART GALLERY, Islamabad, Pakistan
2005 MAMA PARCY GIRLS SCHOOL KARACHI, Pakistan
2004 NATIONAL COLLEGE OF ART LAHORE, Pakistan
2004 PUNJAB UNIVERSITY LAHORE, Pakistan