Mohsin Shafi is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Lahore - Pakistan. In last one decade, He has showcased his work at all prominent galleries in Pakistan, as well has exhibited at various art fairs, galleries and alternative spaces around the globe. He was awarded for a Studio Residency at 1646 Experimental Art Space in Den Haag, The Netherlands in 2021. Previously shafi has attended residency awarded by Pro Helvetia at ‘Atelier Mondial’ in Basel, Switzerland and ‘The Growlery’ in Sanfrancisco, United States both in 2019. He was an artist in residence at the Rondo Studios in Graz, Austria in 2012 and was part of the Vasl Artist residency in 2010 in Karachi - Pakistan.
Selected exhibitions include: ‘The end of Nature’ at Aicon Gallery, New York – U.S. 2019 ; Solo ‘The Swiss Honeymoan’ at Atelier Mondial, Basel - Switzerland in 2019; ‘Take it like a..” at Twelve Gates Arts – Philadelphia - USA in February 2019; Solo ‘Under the Stars we dance like bohemians’ at Canvas Gallery, Karachi - Pakistan, 2018; “Ship is mine” at In-spire Galerie, Dublin - Ireland in 2018 ; ‘Sweeping back the sea’ at Aicon Gallery - NewYork - U.S. in 2018 ; ; ‘The Third Muslim’, at Somarts cultural center, San Francisco – USA in 2018 ; You Selfish Dreamer’ at Rossi & Rossi, London - UK in 2017; ‘Open Field’ at The National Art Gallery, Islamabad – Pakistan in 2016 & 2017,’ ‘The 70’s Pakistan’s Radioactive Decade’ at Amin Gulgee Gallery, Karachi – Pakistan in 2016 among many others.
His work has been sowcased in ‘Forms of Devotion’ - a travelling exhibition at China Art Museum - Shanghai , from November 2015 - February 2016 and at The Museum of Sacred Art, Radhadesh - Belgium in June 2015. His work has been exhibited during Lahore Biennale (2018) in a major exhibition ‘I, too, am part of this history’ at Fakir Khana Museum, Lahore and in ‘River in an ocean’ at an industrial site in Lahore with a collective, ‘The Creative Process Projects’: both collateral event of LBF01, Lahore – Pakistan. He was also part of first Karachi Biennale in Pakistan in 2017. His work has been part of Delhi Contemporary Art week in 2018 and India Art Fair, Delhi – India in 2015 and in 2016; The Fruit Independent Art Book Fair, Italy in 2018; The Tokyo Artbook Fair, Japan in 2017; The Twelve Gates Contemporary Video Art Festival by Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia - USA in 2016 among other fairs and festivals.
Shafi holds a Master's Degree in visual arts and Bachelors in visual communication both from The National College of Arts, Lahore - Pakistan. He served his alma mater from 2012-2017 as adjunct faculty member at masters in visual arts department as well as in visual communication deparement before he was exiled for his outspoken writings and activism in early 2018.