Rites Adrift , 2023-Ongoing
Omer Wasim (b. 1988, Karachi, Pakistan) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA. Wasim received a B.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Sculpture with a concentration in Video and Film Arts and an M.A. in Critical Studies from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. He teaches at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture and serves on the Editorial Board of Hybrid.
Omer Wasim’s solo exhibition, As the Light Turns, took place at Koel Gallery in Karachi, Pakistan in 2018. Select group exhibitions include Imagining Elsewhere, Rajiv Menon Contemporary, Los Angeles, USA (2026); Seismic Movements, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh (2020); India Art Fair, Shrine Empire, New Delhi, India (2020); The Quantum City: Territory, Space, Place, International Public Art Festival, Karachi Port Trust, Karachi, Pakistan (2019); A Time for Farewells, Shrine Empire, New Delhi, India (2019); Is it Possible to Live Outside of Language?, IVS Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan (2019); A Time for Farewells, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Pennsylvania, USA (2019); Karachi Biennale, Karachi, Pakistan (2019); From the HIlls to the Sea, Gandhara Art Space, Karachi, Pakistan (2018); Karachi kaManzarnama, t2f, Karachi, Pakistan (2018); Karachi Biennale (KB17), Karachi, Pakistan (2017); We Ate the Birds, Koel Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan (2017); About time, National Academy of Performing Arts, Karachi, Pakistan (2016); The 70’s: Pakistan’s Radioactive Decade, AminGulgee Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan (2016); and In My Own Corner, Satrang Art Gallery, Islamabad, Pakistan (2016).