Mohsin Shafi is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Lahore – Pakistan. In the last decade, He has showcased his work at all prominent galleries in Pakistan, as well as exhibited at various art fairs, galleries, and alternative spaces around the globe. He was recently awarded for a Studio Residency at Atelier Mondial – Basel, Switzerland by Pro Helvetia earlier this year in 2019 from the South Asia region. He was an artist in residence at the Rondo Studios in Graz, Austria in 2012 and was part of the Vasl Artist residency in 2010 in Karachi – Pakistan.

Selected exhibitions include: ‘The end of Nature’ at Aicon Gallery, New York – U.S. 2019; Solo ‘The Swiss Honeymoon’ at Atelier Mondial, Basel – Switzerland in 2019;  ‘Take it like a..” at Twelve Gates Arts – Philadelphia – the USA in February 2019; Solo ‘Under the Stars, we dance like bohemians’ at Canvas Gallery, Karachi – Pakistan, 2018; “Ship is mine” at In-spire Galerie, Dublin – Ireland in 2018; ‘Sweeping back the sea’ at Aicon Gallery – NewYork – the U.S. in 2018; ‘The Third Muslim’, at Somarts cultural center, San Francisco – the USA in 2018; You Selfish Dreamer’ at Rossi & Rossi, London – the UK in 2017; ‘Open Field’ at The National Art Gallery, Islamabad – Pakistan in 2016 & 2017,’‘ The 70’s Pakistan’s Radioactive Decade’ at Amin Gulgee Gallery, Karachi – Pakistan in 2016 among many others.

His work has been showcased in ‘Forms of Devotion’ – a traveling exhibition at China Art Museum – Shanghai, from November 2015 – February 2016 and at The Museum of Sacred Art, Radhadesh – Belgium in June 2015. His work has been exhibited during Lahore Biennale (2018) in a major exhibition ‘I, too, am part of this history’ at Fakir Khana Museum, Lahore and in ‘River in an ocean’ at an industrial site in Lahore with a collective, ‘The Creative Process Projects’: both collateral event of LBF01, Lahore – Pakistan. He was also part of the first Karachi Biennale in Pakistan in 2017. His work has been part of Delhi Contemporary Art week in 2018 and India Art Fair, Delhi – India in 2015 and in 2016; The Fruit Independent Art Book Fair, Italy in 2018; The Tokyo Artbook Fair, Japan in 2017; The Twelve Gates Contemporary Video Art Festival by Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia – the USA in 2016 among other fairs and festivals.

Shafi holds a Master’s Degree in visual arts and Bachelors’s in visual communication both from The National College of Arts, Lahore – Pakistan. He served his alma mater from 2012-2017 before dedicating himself to a full-time practitioner.