Bio 
Abdullah Qureshi is an artist, educator, and cultural producer. His artistic and research interests examine personal histories and traumatic pasts through painting, interrogating ways that queerness and resistance manifest within Muslim contexts. Qureshi’s work has been exhibited internationally, and he has held numerous positions at cultural and educational institutions including British Council and the National College of Arts, Lahore. In 2017, Qureshi received the Art and International Cooperation fellowship at Zurich University of the Arts and is currently a Doctoral Candidate at Aalto University in Finland and Research Fellow at the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research, Boston.
Artist Statement | The Perfect Gentleman | Sagar Theatre on Queen's Road
His recent body of works comprises of portraits of friends painted live in the studio as a way of investigating complex renditions of masculinity, intimacy, and vulnerability. Each studio encounter would involve the sharing of private stories relating to first loves, sexual encounters, or heartbreaks. Taken together then, these paintings become an archive of a particular time and space through which to understand formations of a queer culture in urban Pakistan
