BIO

Iftikhar Dadi & Elizabeth Dadi have collaborated in their art practice for over twenty years. One focus of their work is on questions of memory, borders, and identity in contemporary globalization. Another trajectory engages with the productive and creative capacities of urban informalities in the Global South. They draw from diverse archival, art historical, and media references, and work across a variety of mediums.

Selected exhibitions include:

Home and the World, Museum Van Loon, Amsterdam (2024); Sharjah Biennial 15, UAE (2023); Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Wales (2023); Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi (2023); The Other Kabul: Remains of the Garden, Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland (2022); Total Landscaping, Warehouse 421, Abu Dhabi (2021); Homelands: Art from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. Kettle's Yard, Cambridge University (2019-20); 13th Havana Biennial (2019); Lahore Biennale 01 (2018); Office of Contemporary Art Norway, Oslo (2017); Dhaka Art Summit (2016); Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai (2015 & 2018); John Hartell Gallery, Cornell University (2005, 2015, 2018); Border Cultures: Part One (homes, land), Art Gallery of Windsor, Canada (2013); Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan (2012); Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (2010); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2010); Queens Museum of Art, New York (2005); DETOX at Kunstnernes Hus-Oslo (2005) & Moderna Museet-Stockholm (2005); Street Level Photoworks Gallery, Glasgow (2003); Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (2003); Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool (2002); Let’s Entertain at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2000), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2000), Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (2001), Miami Art Museum (2001); First Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Japan (2000); The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial, Brisbane, Australia (1999); Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial, Fukuoka, Japan (1999); 24th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil (1998).

Iftikhar Dadi is the John H. Burris Professor in History of Art at Cornell University. He is the author of Lahore Cinema: Between Realism and Fable (2022), Modernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia (2010) and has edited The Lahore Biennale Reader 01 (2022) and Anwar Jalal Shemza (2015). He has co-edited Lahore Biennale Reader 02 (2024); Art and Architecture of Migration and Discrimination: Turkey, Pakistan, and their European Diasporas (2023); Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space (2012); and Unpacking Europe: Towards a Critical Reading (2001). He has been a recipient of grants from the Andy Warhol Foundation and the Getty Foundation. He received his PhD from Cornell University.

Elizabeth Dadi is a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI).

Iftikhar Dadi's faculty page at Cornell: https://arthistory.cornell.edu/iftikhar-dadi

Writings: academia.edu