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Ambreen Butt is a Boston

Boston

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based Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

i American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

artist.
Trained in miniature painting

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

at the National College of Arts Lahore, Butt has lived and worked in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

since the mid-1990s. Her work stems from the traditions of Persian and India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n miniature painting

Miniature painting

Miniature painting may refer to:* Miniature * Persian miniature* Ottoman miniature* Portrait miniature* Painting miniature figures used in wargaming or role-playing games...

with a western modernist abstraction and engagement with contemporary themes.

Art

Butt's paintings are rooted in her bi-cultural identity and retain the intricate, decorative patterning that characterizes Persian

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

and India

India

n miniature painting

Miniature painting

Miniature painting may refer to:* Miniature * Persian miniature* Ottoman miniature* Portrait miniature* Painting miniature figures used in wargaming or role-playing games...

. She has updated the medium's painstaking technique with new materials, such as PET film

PET film (biaxially oriented)

BoPET is a polyester film made from stretched polyethylene terephthalate and is used for its high tensile strength, chemical and dimensional stability, transparency, reflectivity, gas and aroma barrier properties and electrical insulation.A variety of companies manufacture boPET and other...

, thread

Thread (yarn)

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and collage

Collage

A collage is a work of formal art, primarily in the visual arts, made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole....

. Her work discards the traditionally patronizing representation of women in the genre of miniature painting

Miniature painting

Miniature painting may refer to:* Miniature * Persian miniature* Ottoman miniature* Portrait miniature* Painting miniature figures used in wargaming or role-playing games...

and re-defines the female identity through the gaze of a female artist. The protagonists in her work are modern day heroines celebrated for their courage in face of horrendous conditions.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2010

Dirty Pretty and other stories, Jeffe-Friede Gallery at Hopkins center for the arts, Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...

, Hanover, NH

2008

Dirty Pretty, Anna Kustera Gallery, New York, NY

Ambreen Butt: Prints

Printmaking

Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. Printmaking normally covers only the process of creating prints with an element of originality, rather than just being a photographic reproduction of a painting. Except in the case of monotyping, the process is capable...

, Carroll and Sons Inc. Boston, MA

2007

Cirque Du Monde, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA

I need a hero, Site Specific Installation

Installation art

Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between...

, Robert Hull Fleming Museum

Robert Hull Fleming Museum

The Robert Hull Fleming Museum is a museum of art and anthropology located at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont. The museum's collection includes some 25,000 objects from a wide variety of times and places....

, University of Vermont

University of Vermont

The University of Vermont comprises seven undergraduate schools, an honors college, a graduate college, and a college of medicine. The Honors College does not offer its own degrees; students in the Honors College concurrently enroll in one of the university's seven undergraduate colleges or...

, Burlington, VT

2006

Maud Morgan prize: Ambreen butt, Museum of Fine Arts

Museum of Fine Arts

The Museum of Fine Arts may refer to:* Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, United States** Museum of Fine Arts , which is near the museum* Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, United States...

, Boston, MA

2005

I Need a Hero, Kustera Tilton Gallery, New York, NY

Demons, Roberts & Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2003

What is past, or passing, or to come, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA

I must utter what comes to my lips, Worcester Art Museum

Worcester Art Museum

The Worcester Art Museum, also known by its acronym WAM, houses over 35,000 works of art dating from antiquity to the present day, representing cultures from all over the world. The WAM opened in 1898 in Worcester, Massachusetts, and is the second largest art museum in New England...

; Worcester, MA

2002

Drawings by Ambreen Butt - Stephen L. Barstow Artist In Residence, University Art Gallery - Central Michigan University

Central Michigan University

Central Michigan University is a public research university located in Mount Pleasant in the U.S. state of Michigan...

; Mount Pleasant, MI

2001

Ambreen Butt: Home and the World, Bernard Toale Gallery; Boston, MA

1999

Artist is an Allure of the closed; Invitational Site Specific Installation

Installation art

, Institute of Contemporary Art

Institute of Contemporary Art

The Institute of Contemporary Art is an art museum and exhibition space located in Boston, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The museum was founded in 1936 with a mission to exhibit contemporary art.-Mission:...

; Boston, MA

Bed of my own making; Bernard Toale Gallery; Boston, MA

1997

Ambreen Butt: New Paintings, Bernard Toale Gallery; Boston, MA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010

Have I ever opposed you? New art from India

India

and Pakistan

Pakistan

, Faye Fleming and Partner, Geneva

Geneva

Geneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...

, Switzerland

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

2009

In Stitches Lelia Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery, New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

, NY. Curated by Beth Rudin De Woody.

Out of Bounds: Art from the Collection of Driek and Michael Zirinsky. Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA.

Pretty Tough: Contemporary Story telling, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is located in Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA. The Aldrich has no permanent collection. It is one of the United States's leading contemporary art galleries and special exhibition spaces . The museum is an international leader in museum education .The Aldrich was...

, Curated by Monica Ramirez Montagut. Ridgefield, CT.

Bazgasht- Traditional methods and modern practice: Revival of miniature painting

Miniature painting

Miniature painting may refer to:* Miniature * Persian miniature* Ottoman miniature* Portrait miniature* Painting miniature figures used in wargaming or role-playing games...

from the sub continent: Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, ON

2008

Portrait of a Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

Distant Shores: Cultural Exchange in Contemporary Art

Contemporary art

Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced...

, Curated by Deborah Disston. Mclninch Art Gallery, Southern New Hampshire University

Southern New Hampshire University

Southern New Hampshire University, also known as SNHU, is a private university in Manchester and Hooksett, New Hampshire. The university is accredited by the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, and also has numerous specialized...

, Manchester, NH

Master Prints; Curated by Peter Wayne Lewis, Sunshine International Museum, Beijing, China

2007

Global Feminism

Global feminism

Global Feminism is a feminist theory closely aligned with postcolonial theory and postcolonial feminism. It concerns itself primarily with the forward movement of women's rights on a global scale...

; Davis Museum and Cultural center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

Global Feminism

Global feminism

Global Feminism is a feminist theory closely aligned with postcolonial theory and postcolonial feminism. It concerns itself primarily with the forward movement of women's rights on a global scale...

Remix; Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum

The Brooklyn Museum is an encyclopedia art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At 560,000 square feet, the museum holds New York City's second largest art collection with roughly 1.5 million works....

, Brooklyn, NY

Global Feminism

Global feminism

Global Feminism is a feminist theory closely aligned with postcolonial theory and postcolonial feminism. It concerns itself primarily with the forward movement of women's rights on a global scale...

; Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for feminist art, Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum

. New York, NY

Home Coming; Pakistan National Art Gallery, Islamabad

Islamabad

Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan and the tenth largest city in the country. Located within the Islamabad Capital Territory , the population of the city has grown from 100,000 in 1951 to 1.7 million in 2011...

, Pakistan

Pakistan

2006

Banquet; Feast for the Senses, curated by Chip Tom, Asia Pacific Museum, Pasadena, CA

Holy Land: Diaspora and the Desert; Heard museum, Phoenix, AZ

Threads of Memory, curated by Margaret Mathews Berenson, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY

2005

Time’s Arrow: Twelve Random Thoughts on Beauty, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn

Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...

, NY

The Observed and Envisioned; Davis Museum and cultural center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

2004

Visualizing Diaspora: Constructing Self, Gallery Artists Studio Projects, Brookline, MA

I Want to Take you Higher; McKenzie Fie Arts, New York

New York

, NY

For the Birds, Artspace, New Haven, CT

Playing with a loaded gun, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel

Kassel

Kassel is a town located on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Kassel Regierungsbezirk and the Kreis of the same name and has approximately 195,000 inhabitants.- History :...

, Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

Masala Diversity & Democracy in South Asian Art

Art

Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....

, William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut

University of Connecticut

The admission rate to the University of Connecticut is about 50% and has been steadily decreasing, with about 28,000 prospective students applying for admission to the freshman class in recent years. Approximately 40,000 prospective students tour the main campus in Storrs annually...

2003

Playing with a loaded gun, Apex Art, New York

New York

, NY

Contemporary Miniatures: India

India

/Pakistan

Pakistan

, The Fine Art Resource, Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

, Germany

Germany

2002

Get in Line, George Adams Gallery, New York

New York

, NY

Artists in Residence, McColl center for visual Art, Charlotte, NC

Painting

Painting

in Boston

Boston

: From 1950-2000, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park; Lincoln, MA

India

India

: Contemporary Responses, The Art Complex Museum; Duxbury, MA

2001

HOME

Home

A home is a place of residence or refuge. When it refers to a building, it is usually a place in which an individual or a family can rest and store personal property. Most modern-day households contain sanitary facilities and a means of preparing food. Animals have their own homes as well, either...

? Crosscurrents in Contemporary South Asian/American Art

American Art

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, The Brush Art Gallery; Lowell, MA

Home

Home

and the World

World

World is a common name for the whole of human civilization, specifically human experience, history, or the human condition in general, worldwide, i.e. anywhere on Earth....

, India

India

Center for Art

Art

Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....

and Culture

Culture

Culture is a term that has many different inter-related meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions...

; New York

New York

, NY

2000

Material Revelations: Variations on COLLAGE, Fuller Museum of Art; Brockton, MA

Palimpsest

Palimpsest

A palimpsest is a manuscript page from a scroll or book from which the text has been scraped off and which can be used again. The word "palimpsest" comes through Latin palimpsēstus from Ancient Greek παλίμψηστος originally compounded from πάλιν and ψάω literally meaning “scraped...

, Fuller Museum of Art; Brockton, MA

The Figure

Figure

Figure may refer to:*A shape, drawing, or representation*Figure, wood appearance*Musical figure, distinguished from musical motif*Shaping a mirror on a reflective telescope*Noise figure, in telecommunication*Dance figure, an elementary dance pattern...

: Another Side of Modernism

Modernism

Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement, its set of cultural tendencies and array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society...

from 1950 to the Present, New house Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center; Staten Island, NY

2000 Annual Exhibition, DeCordova Museum & Sculpture Park; Lincoln, MA

Awards / Fellowships / Residencies

2010

Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College

; Artist in Residence, Hanover, NH

2009

Distinguished achievement as an artist, Massachusetts College of Art

Massachusetts College of Art

Massachusetts College of Art and Design is a publicly-funded college of visual and applied art, founded in 1873. It is one of the oldest art schools, the only publicly-funded free-standing art school in the United States, and was the first art college in the United States to grant an artistic degree...

Alumni Association, Boston, MA

Artadia Boston

Boston

, fund for Art and Dialogue, New York, NY.

2006

Maud Morgan Prize, Museum of Fine Arts

Museum of Fine Arts

, Boston, MA

Joan Mitchell Foundation; New York, NY

2002

Central Michigan State University; Stephen L. Barstow Artist in Residence; Mt. Pleasant, MI

McColl Center for Visual Arts; Artist in Residence; Charlotte, NC

2001

Canada Council for the Arts; Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

1999

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum or Fenway Court, as the museum was known during Isabella Stewart Gardner's lifetime, is a museum in the Fenway-Kenmore neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, located within walking distance of the Museum of Fine Arts and near the Back Bay Fens...

; Boston, MA; Artist in Residence

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; james and Audrey Foster Prize; Boston, MA

1998

Saint Botolph Club Foundation Grant for Painters; Boston, MA

1997

ART/ OMI; Artist in Residence; New York, NY

Edward Albee Foundation; Artist in Residence; New York, NY

Joan Mitchell Foundation award for Painters; New York, NY

1996

P.E.O International Peace Scholarship; Des Moines, IA

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