Huma Shoaib

Significantly influenced by sufi ideologies, my work visually rests as serene and meditative in parallel to the disturbing questions of division and social hierarchy arising from them. Interchangeably, sufi teachings are generally identified as highly individualistic and harmonious practices while being on the contrary- Observing the sporadic existence of dervish from the rise of sufism centuries ago,having being taken a vow of selfless love and distancing from the norms of society, they were and until now are deemed as controversial figures. Their presence brings uneasiness in social settings and questions the elaborate ways of the tediously complicated belief system. Similar to the silent uneasiness I try to achieve through my practice.

Manifesting creatures like bees, birds and fish as symbols for their inter-religious references, geo-location and life cycle. Ornate and complex geometric drawings hailing from centuries of tradition of being adorned with natural pigments and organic materials, whilst I choose to treat them with fluorescent colors that are industrially made and artificial in nature implying towards the need of beliefs becoming more synthetic and fabricated rather than being the innate desire to be spiritual an...

BFA National College of Arts Lahore Pakistan

2024- Art as process at XVA gallery Dubai, UAE
2024- Fronde Sance at XVA gallery Dubai, UAE
2023- What the land knows the hearts remember, four person at ArtSoch Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan
2023- Neon Equilibrium Virtual NFTs Morrow Collective
2022- Made in Tashkeel 22, Tashkeel Dubai, UAE
2021- Into the revolution, at Foundry downtown
Dubai. curated by Morrow collective
2021- Solistice at XVA gallery, Dubai UAE
2021- Made in Tashkeel 2021, at Tashkeel
Dubai, UAE
2021- Genesis online NFT show curated
by Morrow collective UAE
2021- Silent Confabulations, solo show at XVA
gallery Dubai UAE
2021- The world is too much with is at Alliance
Francaise Dubai UAE
2021- The world is too much with is part1 at
Beit funn Dubai sustainable city, Dubai
UAE
2020- Wolf tone at XVA gallery Dubai UAE
2019- Made in Tashkeel 2019 at Tashkeel
Dubai,UAE
2018- Made-in Tashkeel 2018 At Tashkeel
Dubai, UAE
2013- the bear show at XVA gallery Dubai UAE