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IMRAN MUDASSAR

Imran Mudassar

Photo: courtesy Imran Mudassar

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Imran Mudassar (b. 1982, Gujranwala, Pakistan) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice navigates the porous boundaries between printmaking, miniature‑informed ornamentation, installation and site‑responsive work. Trained in Lahore, Mudassar completed an FA diploma at Government College University (2000–2002) and earned a BFA with distinction and a specialization in printmaking from the National College of Arts (NCA) in 2008, where he was awarded the Award of Excellence by Alhamra Art Gallery. That formal grounding in disciplined technique and process remains central to his work: a careful, iterative logic underpins pieces that shift comfortably between the intimate scale of the print and the immersive scale of installation. Mudassar’s early formation in print and miniature techniques is evident in his meticulous handling of line, pattern and surface. He often translates the labor‑intensive registers of miniature practice—precision, repetition and ornament—into contemporary visual strategies, reworking traditional motifs and processes into expanded, public encounters. This translation is not merely decorative; Mudassar uses the languages of repair, layering and surface to probe questions of memory, craft transmission and the politics of display. Works that begin as quietly exacting prints may reappear as wall installations or site‑specific interventions, where accumulated marks, cutouts and paper reliefs reconfigure the viewer’s relationship to scale and sequence. Collaboration and exchange are recurrent elements in his practice. Mudassar has worked alongside leading Pakistani contemporaries—including Aisha Khalid and Imran Qureshi—contributing to miniature workshops and collaborative installation projects that foreground shared techniques and collective pedagogy. His experience extends beyond the gallery: he has applied his visual sensibility to set and production design for fashion and film, bringing a refined compositional logic to commercial and performative contexts while preserving an artist’s rigor. Mudassar’s work has been shown across South Asia and internationally. Notable presentations include Resemble Reassemble at the Devi Art Foundation in New Delhi and participation in Art Hong Kong (2010). He completed a residency with the Visual Arts Collective as part of the Khoj International Artists’ Residency in Bangalore—an experience that amplified his engagement with dialogic, site-responsive modes of making. His practice is represented internationally by Green Cardamom Gallery (London), and his work is held in important public and private collections, including the British Museum—an institutional recognition that underscores the cross‑cultural and museum‑worthy dimensions of his output. Formally rigorous yet open to experiment, Mudassar positions repetition and process as both method and subject. The careful, handmade quality of his prints—frequently reworked through collage, cutwork and relief—invites prolonged looking, while his installations insist on the body’s movement through space. In doing so he creates a loop between intimacy and exposure: the careful gestures of studio labor resurface as collective encounters that reframe ornament as inquiry rather than mere adornment. As a member of a generation of South Asian artists negotiating craft histories and contemporary display strategies, Imran Mudassar occupies a distinct position. His practice insists that technique carries meaning—that the procedures of making are themselves vehicles of thought. Whether on paper, in room‑scale installation, or as part of collaborative workshops, Mudassar’s work continually tests how modest, patient gestures can accumulate into expansive, public poetics.

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