LALA RUKH
Lala Rukh studied art at Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan (MFA) and University of Chicago, USA (MFA). She taught for 30 years at Punjab University, Department of Fine Art and the National College of Arts where she set up the MA(Hons) Visual Art Program in the year 2000. After retiring from teaching, Lala Rukh devoted her time in her studio in Lahore and to activism. She was amongst the foremost feminist activist artists of South Asia.
Her recent shows include LISTE - Art Fair Basel 2017, Basel, Switzerland / sagar, Grey Noise, Dubai, UAE; For an Image, Faster Than Light - Curated by Bose Krishnamachari, Yinchuan Biennial, Yinchuan, China; but even if I cannot see the sun, Grey Noise, Dubai, UAE; The past, the present, the possible - Curated by Eungie Joo, Sharjah Biennial 12, Sharjah, UAE; Drawings, Koel Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan in collaboration with Grey Noise.
Lala Rukh currently showed a newly commissioned work at Documenta 14 in Athens, Greece and a collection of historic works in Kassel, Germany.
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