Fazal Rizvi - Biography
b. 1987, Karachi, Pakistan / Lives and works in Pakistan
Fazal Rizvi is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Karachi. His inquiry rests somewhere between the personal, the social and the political. Having spent a few years thinking about the materiality and immateriality of the sea and its borders, Rizvi also keeps returning to the personal and familial as a place of trigger and has been contemplating on the ideas of memory, forgetting and monument making. Rizvi has also been working on his long term engagement and research in reference to the glacial and mountainous terrain in the north of Pakistan since 2020, where he lives partly through the year.
Rizvi graduated from the National College of Arts, Lahore in 2010. He has been an artist in residence at the Arcus Studios, Japan in 2011, and was the recipient of the Charles Wallace Pakistan Trust award for Gasworks Studios Residency, London in 2014, Pro Helvetia New Delhi studio residency in Zurich, 2020. He was a resident artist at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Netherlands for the year 2020-21, and at Cite des Arts Paris, with Institute Francaise in 2023.