Sehr Jalil

Sehr Jalil is a contemporary visual artist, researcher, writer, and educationist. Jalil is from Lahore, Pakistan and is currently based in London and pursuing her PhD in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths University of London since September 2021. Her PhD research is titled: Intergenerational Archival encounters (the challenge of the banal, leisurely, and everyday, South Asia WW2 1940s to now). Jalil works with ideas and issues of memory, archive, intergenerational relationships, race, class, and post-colonial subjectivities. Her practice-research looks at histories that are considered lost and/or nuances of memory. It hopes to jolt through an archival lens, the truism or pseudo classifications of post colonial or tunnel-visioned time and place. She is a Lecturer, at the Department of Cultural Studies, National College of Arts, Lahore (currently on leave). As a public art practitioner, she is a member of the Awami Art Collective from Lahore (since its inception in 2015). Jalil has been teaching art, in practice and theory since 2010 and played a key role in the Cultural Studies department at the National College of Arts, Lahore, since 2015. Jalil’s recent projects/research include, ‘And so they Laughed’ Video Essay presented at the Tate...

PhD Scholar, Goldsmiths University of London, Department of Visual Cultures. September 2021 onwards.

MA (Hons) Visual Arts. National College of Arts, Lahore. February 2013 – Dec 2014
BFA, Bachelors in Fine Arts. National College of Arts, Lahore. Year: 2006 Major: Painting. Achievement: Awarded Honors