Book Chapters
Essay on Noorafshan Mirza and Brad Butler, and Jamie George’s residencies at Vasl Artists’ Collective in Pakistan: “By putting “factual fictions” to work, the artists discussed here have responded to their temporary place of production by making visible their own dislocation, by directly responding to questions of power, and by acknowledging that any “response” that they produce would in any case be appropriative, culturally problematic, and insufficient. The place of fiction in the resulting projects “traps” this insufficiency and makes it visible.” Full essay here.
Exhibition Catalogs
– “The Letter is Enough, After All: Muzzumil Ruheel,” TARQ Gallery, Mumbai, December 2018: “To coin a paradoxical term, Muzzumil Ruheel is a maker of “fictional formalisms.” Full essay here.
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– “Indian Art from Pakistan: Partition and the Royal Academy’s Indian Art Exhibition, 1947,” Representing Partition: India and Pakistan, Wolfson College Cambridge, October 2017: Essay on the Royal Academy’s 1947 exhibition of Indian art. Full essay here.
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– Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic: 1945-1965, Haus der Kunst, Munich. Short artwork profiles for guidebook, October, 2016. (Profile of M.F. Husain’s Man, 1951, here. Other profiles also on the Postwar archival site.)
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– “Adeel uz Zafar: The Antagonist,” Aicon Gallery, New York, November 2015.
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– “Mourning and Survival in the work of Maria Theodoraki,” DESTE Art Prize at the Museum of – Cycladic Art, Athens, August 2013.
Catalog essay on Theodoraki’s commission for the Deste prize.
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– “Keira Green, In Our Ivory Tower,” for Inland and The Conch: A Forum for Critical Discussion at South London Gallery, October 2012.
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– “Maria Theodoraki: The Line,” catalogue essay “3” Palagas Gallery, London, June 2012.
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– “Symphony of a Missing Room: Lundahl & Seitl,” (transl. German), Salzburg Festival, May 2011.
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– “Red Dust,” The Anachronistic Album, photo-space, London, August 2010.
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– “Silver Bullet,” Waseem Ahmed: Silver Bullet, Laurent Delaye Gallery, London, January 2010.
Magazine Articles
– “In Good Company? Retrospectives and Global Art History,” ArtNow Pakistan, December 2017.
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– “Contemporaries in the Corridors, Some Preliminary Thoughts,” ArtNow Pakistan, April 2017.
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– “Aditya Pande: Profile,” ArtAsiaPacific, November/December 2016: “Inhabiting complex, imaginary spaces behind the window-like frames of Pande’s art, it seems that these animate figures might blink and turn round to face us, extending an invitation to join them in their world.” Full essay here.
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– “Roundtable: Global Exhibitions, with Vivian Crockett, Julia Pelta Feldman, Jonathan Patkowski, and Rachel Wetzler,” Shift, 9, 2016.
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– “Ian Giles: Kill Your Darlings,” Common Room, New York, September 2016. Also published on This is Tomorrow, September 2016.
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– “Lights, Camera, Smile!,” ArtNow Pakistan, March 2014.
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– “Basir Mahmood: Profile,” Kaleidoscope Magazine, September 2013.
Full list here.
Exhibition and Book Reviews
– “Cauleen Smith: Mutualities,” The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Art Monthly, no 435, April 2020.
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– “Theatre of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991-2011,” MoMA PS1, New York, Art Monthly, no. 433, February 2020.
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– “Shy Radicals,” (book review), Apricota, issue 2, Spring 2019.
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– “(Be)hold: Group Show,” Gandhara Gallery, Karachi, ArtNow Pakistan, November 2018.
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– “Adeela Suleman: What May Lie Ahead,” Canvas Gallery, Karachi, ArtNow Pakistan, October 2018.
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– “Scenes for a New Heritage: Contemporary Art from the Collection,” MoMA, New York, ArtNow Pakistan, March 2016.
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– “‘Anwar Jalal Shemza’ and ‘The Eye Still Seeks’,” (book review), ArtAsiaPacific, January 2016: “As other writers in this volume explain, after receiving his degree Shemza’s first priority was to return to Pakistan and to the fraternal fold that, five decades later, The Eye Still Seeks so potently describes.” Full review here.
Full list here.
Gemma Sharpe 