SANA KHAN | THE WORK
STATEMENT
Sana Khan is a Contemporary Fine Art Photographer whose work compasses rudimentary human emotions and experiences through the stages of life.
She finds that her art is a tool of communicating her narratives of life, its apprehensions and splendor. In other words it is a representation of the world as she sees it.
All her sets are created with meticulous effort to reproduce her interpretations and notions in a more tangible form. Days, even months have been spent relentlessly searching morgues and butcher shops for cadavers for some of her early series. She prefers developing a controlled environment for her work, for this reason in her more recent series she has used painted backdrops and constructed sculptures using ghungroos.
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EDUCATION
BA (Hons) Photographic Arts: University of Westminster, London
Fine Arts: Beaconhouse National University, Pakistan
EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibition:
2009, AL-Hamra National Art Gallery, Lahore Pakistan
Group Exhibitions:
2012, Noorderlicht Photography Festival, Netherlands
2012, Degree Exhibition, Old Truman Brewery, London
2012, Collaborative Photography Exhibition, University of Westminster, London
2012, ‘ISHshow’ International Student House Art Exhibition and Prize, London
2010, SANJH Art Exhibition For Relief of Flood Affectees, Al-Hamra Art Gallery, Pakistan
2010, Dawn Photo Travelogue Exhibition, Karachi Expo Centre, Pakistan
2009, Patrons of Oh My God I can Buy Arts, Grey Noise Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan
2009, Through Other’s Eyes, Contemporary Art From South Asia, Herbert Gallery & Museum, Coventry, UK
2008, Noise Festival, Manchester, UK
2008, Rohtas Uncovered, Nairang Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan
Permanent Collection:
2009, AL-Hamra Lahore Art Council, Pakistan
COMMISSIONS
2009, Portrait for Artist Rashid Rana, Lahore Pakistan
PUBLICATIONS
2012, The Witness in Contradictory Times, ‘Guerrilla’ Canadian Photography Journal, Dr.Maureen Korp
2009, Danka: Featured Artist
2009, In Search of Freedom, The Nation, Tayyaba Kanwal
2009, Real And Surreal, Weekly Cutting Edge Magazine, Mian Naeem
2008, Cover Photo & Fotoshop Documenting Past Grandeur, Bibi Gul
2008, Rohtas and its Many Tales, Friday Times, Sarah Cheema
2008, Sana Khan ‘Speaking Through the lens’, Weekly Cutting Edge Magazine, Mian Naeem