Education
2015 Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, UK (MFA Painting)
2012 National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan (BFA Miniature Painting)
Solo Exhibitions
2022 The Life of an Image, Khaas Gallery, Islamabad, Pakistan
2018 the soul breathes differently, Satrang Art Gallery, Islamabad, Pakistan
2016 a cage as elusive as a shadow, Sanat Initiative, Karachi, Pakistan
Exhibitions
2024 Legacies of Crossings, Shahnaz Gallery, London, UK
2024 At Daybreak, Ignition Art Project, Coningsby Gallery, London, UK
2024 Triptykon, LungA School, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
2024 Losing, Looping, Forgetting, List í ljósi, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
2023 Pas-E-Aaina, Dominion Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan
2023 Ecological Study, ArtNext Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan
2022 The Unwritten, Satrang Gallery, Islamabad, Pakistan
2022 Tutti Frutti Kahaniyan, Canvas Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
2022 A Decade, Satrang Art Gallery, Islamabad, Pakistan
2021 Spinning and Unspinning, The Art of the Storyteller, O Art Space, Lahore, Pakistan
2021 Transforming Narratives, The Positive Power of Artistic Collaborations by CollaborArtists, Birmingham, UK
2021 The Architecture of Being II, AAN Gandhara Art Space, Karachi, Pakistan
2020 Pretty Art for Pretty People, Curated by Champa, Sanat Initiative, Karachi, Pakistan
2019 Indus Water Machines by Pak Khawateen Painting Club, Lahore Biennale, Lahore, Pakistan
2019 Crosscut: Consumerism & Ethics, Gurmani House, Lahore
2018 From the Hills to the Sea, AAN Gandhara Art Space, Karachi
2018 National Exhibition, Alhamra Art Gallery, Lahore
2018 within|without, Asia House, London, UK
2018 Oaks Editions Lithography Studio, Riverside Gallery, London, UK
2018 Art for Artist, Qutub Rind and Contemporaries, O Art Space, Lahore, Pakistan
2018 Solitude, Koel Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
2018 Future Debris, Zahoor Ul Akhlaq Gallery, National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan
2017 You're Killing the Mountain, Exhibition and book launch of Artists' Book, Murree Museum Artist Residency, Faiz
International Festival, Alhamra Arts Council, Lahore, Pakistan
2017 Embodied Experience, Taseer Art Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan
2017 Of Other Spaces, 8-F Gulberg 2, Lahore, Pakistan
2017 Water, Murree Museum, Murree, Pakistan
2017 Crossing Borders, Siddhartha Art Gallery, Kathmandu, Nepal
2017 Fine Print, Etching and Aquatint, IVS Gallery, Indus School of Art and Architecture, Karachi, Pakistan
2016 Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours 204th Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK
2015 The London Group 82nd Open Exhibition 2015, The Cello Factory, London, UK
2015 Hix Award Exhibition 2015, CNB Gallery, London, UK
2015 MA/MFA Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK
2015 Material Matters, A Goodenough College Exhibition, Goodenough College, London, UK
2014 Slade Interim Show, Slade Research Centre, London, UK
2012 Day After Tomorrow, Alhamra Art Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan
2010 Sanjh, Art Exhibition to Raise Funds for Flood Affectees, September 4th- 10th 2010, Alhamra Art Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan
2010 New-s Item, Alhamra Art Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan
2008 Culture and Democracy: The Exhibition, Zahoor Ul Akhlaq Gallery, National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan
2008 Fresh Cream, Alhamra Art Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan
2008 Transformation, an Exhibition of Students Artworks, Zahoor Ul Akhlaq Gallery, National College of Arts, Lahore,
Pakistan
Residencies and International Visits
2024 LungA School, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
2022 Visitor by Invitation of Mondriaan Fonds, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2017 Printmaking Workshop, Return to Basics 2017, VASL Residency, Indus School of Art and
Architecture, Karachi, Pakistan
2017 The Water Book, Murree Museum Artists’ Residency, Pakistan
Curatorial Projects
2023 The Unforgotten Moon: Liberating Art from Guantánamo Bay, IVS Gallery, Indus Valley School of Art and
Architecture, Karachi, Pakistan
2020 Unmaking History, co-curator, Research and Publication Centre, Lahore, Pakistan
2018 River in an ocean, co-curator, 51-N Gurumangat Road, Gulberg 2, Lahore, Pakistan
2017 Of Other Spaces, 8-F Gulberg 2, Lahore, Pakistan
Panel Discussions
2022 Curatorial Methodologies, Staging the Contemporary: The Next Generation. An online
symposium organized by Ishara Art Foundation and India Art Fair.
2019 Curating in Pakistan. Panel discussion with Abdullah Qureshi, Laila Rahman, Natasha
Jozi and Saher Sohail. COMO Museum, Lahore, Pakistan.
Selected Publications and Articles
2023 Natasha Malik. The Unforgotten Moon: Liberating Art from Guantánamo Bay, NO-
2023 Feliz Solomon. 540 Days at CIA Black Sites. 18 Years at Guantanamo Without Charge.
Hundreds of Paintings, Now Out in The World. Wall Street Journal
2023 Sonia Ghezali, Shahzeb Wahlah. Pakistani artist asks US military to return the artwork
he painted in Guantanamo. France 24
2023 Naimat Khan. Former Pakistan Guantánamo Detainee Uses Art to Portray Anguish of Years
in Confinement. Arab News, Pakistan
Press
2023 Kate Wilson. Drawing and Painting: Materials and Techniques for Contemporary Artists,
Thames and Hudson
2022 Nayha Jahangir Khan. Art Review, Natasha Malik at Khaas Contemporary
Awards
2016 Special commendation, Dentons Art Prize, London, UK
2016 Shortlisted for Dentons Art Prize, London, UK
2015 Shakir Ali Award, National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan
2013 University College London Studentship for postgraduate work in the Department Slade School of Fine
Art, London, UK
2012 One of the 10 best works of the exhibition ‘Day After Tomorrow', Alhamra Art Gallery, Lahore Arts
Council, Lahore, Pakistan
2011 Principal’s Honour List, National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan
2010 Merit scholarship, National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan
2009 Merit scholarship, National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan