Madyha J. Leghari
Curriculum Vitae
madyha.leghari@gmail.com
www.madyhaleghari.com
EDUCATION
2016–2018 | MFA (Media Arts: Photography)
Massachusetts College of Art and Design (Cross-registered for 9 credits at Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
2009–2013 | BFA (Printmaking)
National College of Arts, Lahore
RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
2026 | Artistic Research Fellowship, The Folger Institute, Washington DC
2026 | Studio Resident, The Nicholson Project, Washington DC (upcoming)
2026 | Bresler Resident, VisArts, Rockville, MD (upcoming)
2025 | Digital Residency, The Nicholson Project, Washington DC
2022–2024 | Hamiltonian Artist Fellowship, Washington DC
2024 | Wherewithal Research Grantee, Washington DC
2024 | Fellow, Islam & Print, Baltimore
2021 | Vasl Fiction Writing Mentorship, Karachi
2021 | Mantiq of the Mantis Artist Residency, Lahore
2021 | Mansion Artist Residency, Lahore
2020 | Delta Research Placement, John Latham Archive at FlatTime House, London
2020 | Teaching Residency (selected), BRS China (MassArt)
2020 | Visiting Artist Residency, Siena Art Institute, Italy
2016 | Fulbright Scholarship
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2027 | Upcoming, VisArts, Rockville
2026 | Upcoming, The Nicholson Project, Washington DC
2025 | PANG, Hamiltonian Artists, Washington, DC
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 (Upcoming)
Phillips Juried Invitational, The Phillips Collection, Washington DC (cur. Tie Jojima & Tsedaye Makonnen)
TBD group exhibition, Whitewall Gallery, Lahore
2025
Water in the Gas, The Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC (cur. Anisa Olufemi)
Hits Different: 5 Under 35, Brentwood Arts Exchange, Brentwood (cur. Emily Fussner)
Still Life, Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington
Carte Blanche, Adah Rose Gallery, Rockville
Porous, Kaleido Kontemporary, Lahore (cur. June Collective)
Mehr als Worte, Goethe Institut, Washington, DC (cur. Adah Rose & Teddy Rodgers)
Garden of Times, Articulate Studios, Lahore (cur. Sehrish Mustafa)
Deconstructed and Reestablished, Blackrock Gallery, Germantown, USA
2024
Heirloom, Gallery CA, Baltimore (cur. Safiyah Cheatam & Dan Flounders)
Scorched Petals to Pages, The Nicholson Project, Washington, DC (cur. Thomas James)
2023–2019
of known fabliaux, Lahore (cur. The Roadside and June Collective) 2023
new.now:23, Hamiltonian Artist, Washington DC (cur. Anisa Olufemi) 2023
Speaking in Tongues, Jamshed Memorial, Karachi Biennale 22 (cur. Faisal Anwar) 2022
Yeah, I’m doing great, MassArt x SoWa, Boston. 2021
EART: A manifesto of possibilities, in collaboration with Rashid Rana, Manchester International Festival ( cur. Alnoor Mitha) 2021
Spinning and Unspinning: The Art of The Storyteller, O Art Space, Lahore (cur. Laila Rahman) 2021
Fragaments, Satrang Art Gallery, Islamabad (cur. Zahra Khan) 2021
Left a Mark, Satrang Art Gallery, Islamabad (cur. Zahra Khan) 2021
Mansion Artist Residency Exhibition, Lahore (cur. Nausheen Saeed) 2021
Streaming Silences, Popup by The Roadside, Lahore (cur. Ali Arshad) 2020
Islamabad Art Festival, National Art Gallery, Islamabad (cur. Risham Syed) 2019
From the Hills to the Sea, AAN Gandhara Art Space, Karachi (cur. Saba Khan) 2019
SCREENINGS & FILM FESTIVALS
2023
StableArts Film Festival, Washington DC, USA.
Images Festival, Toronto, Canada.
2022
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, Scotland, UK.
Esto Es Para Esto, Monterrey, Mexico.
XVIII Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground, Berlin, Germany.
2021
Istanbul Experimental Film Festival, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey.
On Commons - Video and Experimental Film Event, Sea Foundation, Tilburg, Netherlands
Mimesis Documentary Festival, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
17th Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, Greece
33rd Girona Film Festival, Girona, Catalonia
Antimatter [Media Art], Victoria BC, Canada
Hive International Short Film Days, Berlin, Germany
9th International Video Poetry Festival, Athens, Greece
Divvy Film Festival, Pakistan National Council of Arts, Islamabad, Pakistan
SPHERE → WORLD CINEMA CARNIVAL, Kolkata, India
International Kanks Video Festival, Moscow Russia
OASFF, Minsk, Belarus
Kino pleme / Live Soundtrack, Belgrade, Serbia
El FESTIVAL de Sci-Fi, Terror y Fantasía, Bogotá, Colombia
Kinam Festival Internacional De Cine Differente, Mexico City, Mexico
Cine@Art Festival, Ancient Corinth, Greece
Patmos Cinema Festival, Patmos, Greece
Maracay International Film and Video Festival, Maracay, Venezuela
2020
Maldito Festival de Videopoesia, Albacete, Spain
Nottingham Arts Mela, Nottingham UK
South Asian Film Festival, Bennington College, USA
ÍCARO Festival Internacional de Cine en Centroamérica, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Helios Sun Poetry Film Festival, Mexico City, Mexico
Florence Film Awards, Honorable Mention, Florence, Italy
AltFF Alternative Film Festival, Best Cast Award, Toronto, Ontario
Deep Cut Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
FlickFair, August 2020, Official Selection, USA
Blacksphere Festival 2020, Finalist, Praha, Czech Republic
INVITED TALKS
2025
Artist Talk at The Kreeger Museum, Washington DC
Artist Talk in conversation with Landon Newton, Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington DC
2024
Research Presentation, Wherewithal Grants, Washington DC
Artist Talk, The Nicholson Project, Washington DC
2023–2019
2023 Artist Talk at Hamiltonian Artists, Washington DC
2022 Artist talk, Karachi Biennale
2022 Artist talk, Beaconhouse National University, Lahore
2022 Artist talk, National College of Arts, Lahore.
2021 Teaching Projects in Art and Design, ConversationsTP, Pakistan
2021 Afterword, Sphere World Cinema Carnival, Kolkata
2020 Contemporary Pakistani Short Film: Experimentations and Innovations, PictureGhar, LUMS, Lahore
2020 Plasma - Artist Talk, Helios Sun Poetry Film Festival, Mexico City
2020 Starters Live, lecture on night and its cultural history, Siena Art Institute
2020 Artist Talk at the Siena Art Institute
2019 Para-sites and Para-fictions, National History Museum, Lahore
2019 Exit Strategy, National Art Gallery, Islamabad
2019 Death of the Discipline, convened, presented and moderated, Beaconhouse National University, Lahore
SELECTED PRESS
The Artist’s Artist by Rashid Rana | Artforum
In the galleries by Mark Jenkins | The Washington Post
Form and Meaning in Modern and Contemporary Pakistani Art by Iftikhar Dadi | The Wire, India
Garden as a Potent Symbol by Quddus Mirza | The News on Sunday
Marketing Art by Quddus Mirza | The News on Sunday
Hamiltonian Artists Announces new fellows and fellowship manager for 2022-2024 | East City Art
Visionary Women by Shaheer Masud | The News International
Artistic ideas and modern technology in hybrid hues by Shazia Hasan | Dawn Newspaper
The Art We Live and Breathe: Karachi Biennale ‘22 and the case for spatial escapism by Shaheer Masud | Mag the Weekly
Choice of Weapon by Rhea Storr | Alchemy Film and Arts
The Enigma of Silence by Quddus Mirza | The News on Sunday
An Estimation of Silence by Sarah Zahid | Nigaah Art
Spotlight Artist – Madyha Leghari by Shameen Arshad | The Missing Slate
No Man’s Land by Dua Abbas | ArtNow Pakistan
The Mansion Connection by Quddus Mirza | The News on Sunday
Unmaking Histories by Saulat Ajmal | The Aleph Review
Unmaking History by Ambereen Siddiqui | The Friday Times
Spinning and Unspinning: The Art of the Storyteller’ by Nayha Jehangir Khan | Youlin Magazine
Left a Mark by Haroon Shuaib | ArtNow Pakistan
Exit Strategy at IAF 2019: A Nest of Non-Conformity by Rabeya Jalil | ArtNow Pakistan
From the Hills to the Sea by Uzma Nawaz | Nigaah Art
What Belongs to You | Nigaah Art
Participation Issues by Veera Rustomji | ArtNow Pakistan
Who Does Art Belong To? by Nimra Khan | Dawn Newspaper
Featured in ‘For Art’s Sake’ | GT Magazine
Till Human Voices Wake Us | Nigaah Art
The hills are alive by Sumbal Iftikhar | The Friday Times
Vasl Art, Online Newsletter, Jan - May 2014 # 28
The Murree Museum Artists’ Residency | HELLO! Pakistan
In a Room I Trap the Absence of a Room by Dua Abbas | ArtNow Pakistan