Born in 1979, Shahdadpur a small town in Sindh, Irfan Gul Dahri holds a Masters in Visual Art from National College of Arts and was awarded with Charles Wallace Visiting Artist Fellowship 2013/14 to study in Prince’s School of Traditional Arts, London. He participated in Vasl residency, Karachi in 2007, was selected for 8thNeerja Modi International Art Camp 2012 in Jaipur, Climate Change and Art – A Practitioners’ Retreat, art residency in Swat in 2016 and Art for Climate Change art residency in Naran in 2018. As a resident artist at Studio RM from 2008 to 2013, Dahri remained an active member in different community projects regarding student counseling and training through lectures, seminars, discussions and formal art classes. Irfan received the national award for painting ‘Arjumand Painting award’ in 2017 as well as Chughtai Award and Principal’s Honors Award in 2003 for academic excellence in B. Design from National College of Arts where he has been teaching as permanent faculty since 2006. Dahri has been exhibiting his work in Pakistan, Dubai, Singapore, England, America and India. Irfan works as an independent curator as well as with O Art Space as gallery curator since 2016. He lives and works in Lahore, Pakistan.