Shiblee Muneer

Visual Practitioner-Art Educationist
Shiblee Muneer was born in Jhang, in a family of artists, where miniature painting was practiced for centuries. The family legend has it that his ancestors followed the first Mughal Emperor Babur from Afghanistan to Persia then India, as part of his team of painters and calligraphers.
Members of his family remained at Delhi Court until the early 19thcentury. However, with the decline of Mughal power and art patronage, they moved to Patiala transferring the traditional Mughal painterly technique to the Sikh-ruled court.
Muneer’s great, great, grandfather, Ustad Allah Ditta founded the princely painting gharana at Patiala where the so-called ‘Pahari’ style of miniature painting developed under his guidance. Ustad Allah Ditta’s grandson, and Muneer’s grandfather, Ustad Haji Mohammad Sharif (1889-1978) was a well-known painter in the Indian subcontinent and his fame was also international, through the UK’s India Society. He was based at Patiala and traveled to other regions on request of his employer, Maharajah Bhupinder Singh (1891-1938). Several years after the death of Maharaja, Ustad Haji Sharif was requested for a teaching appointment at the Mayo School of the Arts, now National College of A...

Bachelor in Visual Arts Beacon House National University. (2011)
Three years diploma in Traditional art and design from Naqsh School of Arts Lahore. (2003-2006)

Selected Exhibitions

2024 A solo show “Tales from the Herem” at Pakistan Art forum Lahore, Pakistan.
2024 “National calligraphy exhibition ” at Shakir Ali Museum Lahore, Pakistan.
2024 Group exhibition “Haroof Gah” at Muse art gallery Lahore, Pakistan.
2024 Group exhibition “Conversations” at O Art space Lahore, Pakistan.
2024 Group exhibition “Artspeak” at MainFrame gallery Karachi, Pakistan.
2024 Calligraphy group exhibition“Wird” at Main frame gallery Karachi , Pakistan.
2024 Group exhibition “Noor” at gallery 21 Islamabad, Pakistan.
2024 Group show “Lazurite” at Art escape gallery Islamabad, Pakistan
2023 A solo show “Identity crises” at Koel gallery Karachi, Pakistan.
2023 Group exhibition “it is written” (likha hua hea) at Numaish Gah, Lahore Pakistan.
2023 Group show-auction “Transcending traditions” by Artsoch gallery at USA.
2023 2person show at Redmoon art incubator in Brussels Belgium.
2023 Group exhibition “Kun Faya Kun”at Ijaz art gallery Lahore, Pakistan.
2023 Group exhibition “To Connect” (Rabta) at O Art Space Lahore.
2022 Group presentation at Abu Dhabi Art Fair represented by Salwa Zeidan gallery Abu Dhabi.
2022 Transcending traditions a group show-auction by Artsoch contemporary at USA.
2022 Art for h...