Sheherezade Alam (19 June 1948 – 19 May 2022) was a Pakistani-Canadian ceramist.Acclaimed ceramist Sheherezade Alam passes away, tribune.com.pk. Accessed 28 July 2022.
Early life and education Alam was born in 1948 in Lahore, Pakistan to Mahmoud Alam, a Pakistani former tennis player and his wife, Surayya. She had two brothers, Asad and Shaban. Brought up in Lahore, she completed her FA from its Kinnaird College. She went on to obtain her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Design with a distinction in ceramics from Lahore's National College of Arts (NCA), where she studied under the country's first ceramist, Salahuddin Mian. She later became an artist-in-residence at Yale University. She taught at the NCA, as well as at Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey).
Personal life In 1971, she married Zahoor ul Akhlaq (1941–1999), a painter, and the couple had two daughters, Jahanara (1974–1999) and Nurjahan (b. 1979). Zahoor and Jahanara were murdered in their home in Lahore in 1999 by a visiting acquaintance, Shahzad Butt, a roti merchant of the city. The killer was awarded death sentence by a court and the sentence was upheld by the Lahore High Court. An appeal is pending in the Supreme Court.Circumstances of murders of Zahoor ul Akhlaq and his daughter, Jahanara, dawn.com. Accessed 28 July 2022.
Career Shows
Group 1980: Sultan Art Gallery, Kuwait 1983: Group Show, British Council, Islamabad 1983: Group Show, Rohtas Gallery, Islamabad 1988: Joint exhibition, Yale University, New Haven, USA 1995 to 1999: Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition (yearly) 2009: Group Show, Vogue Art Gallery, Islamabad.Group exhibition opens at Vogue Art Gallery Daily Times 21 November 2009. 26 October 2010.
Solo 1990: Chawkandi Arts, Karachi 1993: Ish Gallery, Ankara, Turkey 1994: Bismillah, Arcadia Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 1996: Clay Continuum, Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2004: Offering Bowls, Arcadia Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2005: Laali, Ceramic Installation, Private Residence, Lahore 2006: Laali, The garden of Imran Mir, Karachi
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