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Dean BNU-MDSVAD, Rashid Rana to
be Awarded Sitara-e-Imtiaz
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RASHIDRANA
TORECEIVE

SITARA-E-IMTIAZ

"Thereisnobetterfeelingthanbeing
recognizedbyyourownpeople"
-RashidRana

Rashid Rana, Dean – Mariam Dawood School

of Visual Arts & Design (MDSVAD) at
Beaconhouse National University (BNU) is to be
conferred with the Sitara-e-Imtiaz award,
announced on Saturday, 14th August, 2021.

“There is no better feeling than being

recognized by your own people” – says Rashid
Rana.

Widely considered to be one of the leading

artists of his generation in South Asia today,
Rashid Rana emerged as the maker of an
entirely new kind of art from Pakistan, at the
start of this century. Notable for his ideas,
imagery, and pictorial strategies, Rashid Rana
has exhibited extensively at various galleries
and museums globally. His works are in various
public and private collections including the
British Museum London, Metropolitan Museum
New York, Fukuoka Museum of Art, Japan and
Saatchi Collection, London. He is the recipient
of the prestigious Game-Changer Asia Art
Award and was awarded International Artist of
the Year by SAVAC Canada in 2003.

Primarily known for his art practice, Rashid

Rana occupies multiple simultaneous profiles.
He mediates between artist, curator and an
academic with a common thread of an unfixed
The Beaconhouse Group

and non-prescriptive view of geography and

identity. He is a founding faculty member and
currently the Dean of the Mariam Dawood
School of Visual Arts and Design at BNU,
Lahore.

Selected Exhibitions and Other Unique

Achievements
He has exhibited extensively at various galleries
and museums globally.
- He is the first living artist to have had a
“survey solo exhibition” at the Muse Guimet
Paris. In 2015, his work was included in a
landmark exhibition titled "The Treasures of the
World" from British Museum, which was held at
the National Museum of Singapore and along
with Rashid Rana’s work had 239 objects from
the entire Human history.
- His survey exhibition at the Mohatta Palace
Museum, Karachi is the largest ever exhibition
by a single artist to have been held in Pakistan.
- His work has been shown at international
venues such as Singapore Art Museum,
Singapore; Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong;
Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK; Fotomuseum
Winterthur, Switzerland; Whitechapel Gallery,
London, UK; Saatchi Gallery, London, UK;
Lower Belvedere, Vienna, Austria; the Asia
Society, New York, USA; Kemper Art Museum,
St Louis, USA; National Fine Arts Museum,
Taichung, Tiwan; House of World Cultures,
Berlin, Germany; Institute of the Modern Art,
Brisbane, Australia; Gallery of Modern Art,
Australia; Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester
UK; Asia House, London, UK; Royal Academy,
London, UK; 5th Asia Pacific Triennale,
Queensland Gallery of Art, Australia; 3rd
Fukuoka Triennale, Fukuoka Museum of Art,
Japan, Venice Biennale 2015, Venice, Italy. 1st
Singapore Biennale, Singapore; 1st Kiev
International Biennale: ARSENALE, Kiev,
Ukraine.
- In 2008, one of his works was auctioned at
Sotheby’s New York for 623,000 USD which is
the highest ever price paid for a work of art by
any Pakistan artist, until year 2020.

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