AMMARA JABBAR
ABOUT AMMARA JABBAR
Ammara Jabbar is a multi-disciplinary artist and writer based in Karachi, Pakistan. She graduated from the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture in 2015. Since then, Jabbar has displayed her work in several group exhibitions nationally
and internationally. In 2016, Jabbar was selected for the Gasworks Residency in London, United Kingdom. She was also awarded the Imran Mir Emerging Art Prize in 2018, and shortlisted for the Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize in 2020. In 2018, she worked with a group of artists for a project titled “Stories Around Jahangir Restaurant” which aimed to archive the history of Iranian Restaurant in Karachi. Jabbar was also a Visiting Artist Fellow at the Mittal Institute, Harvard University
from (2020-2021). She was a recipient of the Prince Claus Seed Award in 2021. Jabbar also works under the alias Prickled Pears.
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Education
Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Bachelors in Fine Arts, 2015
Residencies/Fellowships:
TOLET; Taaza Tareen 8, VASL, Karachi, Pakistan, 2016
Gasworks Winter Residency, London, United Kingdom, October'16 – December'16
Recorded Time, Residency at Koel Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan, 2017
Manifest, Museum Of Scroll, September 2020
Visiting Artist Fellow at the Mittal Institute, Harvard University, 2020-2021
Art House Holland, Liederdorp, Netherlands, 2022
CSAV, Artist Research Lab, Fondazionne Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy 2023
Group Exhibitions:
Carte Blanche, FOMMA (DHA Art Centre) Karachi, Pakistan 2016
Pehli Manzil, Karachi, Pakistan, 2016
WITNESS Inaugural Karachi Biennial 2017
Stories Around Jahangir Restaurant (An artistic response to the closure of Iranian Restaurants in Karachi,Pakistan) February'17 – December’18
Double Tap, Museum Of Scroll, Digital Group ShowMay, 2020
Pretty Art for Pretty People, Group Show, Sanat Initiative, November 2020
For The Wicked and the Valiant, O Art Space 2020
Mixhibition, Curated Plate, Sol House, 2021
MICROCOSM, AAN Art Space & Museum, 2021
New Age Art, curated by Champa & Other Intellectuals, 2021
The Smog Show| Zahoor-ul-Ikhlaq Gallery, NCA, Lahore, Pakistan, 2021
WHO IS AN ARTIST, VM Art Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan, 2022
Tutti Fruity Kahaniyan, Curated by Ammara Jabbar and Rabia Ali, Canvas Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan, 2022
My Glory Days, Dominion Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan, 2022
BUY OR BURN, Noesunagaleria, Netherlands, 2022
Red Curtain, Sanat Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan, 2022
Why Artists Do Strange Things, Full Circle Gallery, 2022
Virtual Museum, Lahore Biennial Foundation, 2022
JAGA HAI, Amin Gulgee Gallery, 2022
It's Time To Wake Up, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, 2023
Solo Exhibitions:
Systems Of a Liaison, Solo Exhibition at VASL, Curated by Aziz Sohail, Sept 2019
GOOD TIME, Solo Exhibition at Cinema.73, Curated by Noor B. Ahmed, October 20201
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Prizes/Grants:
Imran Mir Emerging Artist Prize, 2018
Shortlisted for Ashurst Emerging Art Prize, 2020
Prince Claus Seed Award, 2021
Other:
Adjunct Faculty at The Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, 2022-present
Freelance writer at The Karachi Collective
Author of Short Story “Cola & Milk-Cake”, 2020
Invited as a speaker at the What Design Can Do Festival in Amsterdam, 2022
Published poem in Post Script Magazine, entitled May
Works under the pseudonym Prickled Pears(Collaborations with DUNIA, Inclusivitee, Black Magic PK)
