MARIAM EQBAL b. 1977, Lahore, Pakistan SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Art and Music, Kentucky College of Art and Design, Whitney Hall, Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, Louisville, KY, 2019
Frame and Frequency: Fantastic Bodies, group show curated by Frank McCauley, Visual Arts Center, Rockville, MD, 2019
Written in Light: Mediations on the Moving Image, group exhibition, Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, 2019
Art Lab, Wilbur Laboratory, Mountain Lake Biological Station, University of Virginia, Pembroke, VA, 2018
The Silos, Artists Collective, group show, Manchester, Richmond, VA, 2018
Art Lab, Lewis Hall, Mountain Lake Biological Station, University of Virginia, Pembroke, VA, 2017
Homeward Bound, Taubman Museum of Art, group exhibition curated by Bradley Sumrall, Roanoke, VA, 2017
The Silos, Artist Collective, group show, Manchester, Richmond, VA, 2017
Amplifications and Measures, solo exhibition, Neil Britton Gallery, Virginia Wesleyan College, Norfolk, VA, 2016
Recursion, Artprize, Grand Rapids Downtown Market, Grand Rapids, MI, 2015
The New Unconscious, group exhibition, SciArt Center of New York, NY, 2015
InLight, group exhibition, 1708 Gallery, Monroe Park, Richmond, VA, 2014
RVA Art Festival, Historic Greater Richmond Transit Company Depot, Richmond, VA, 2013
Field Works, Rice River Center, Research Institute, Virginia Commonwealth University, Charles City, VA, 2013
The Humankind, The Cluster Project, Online Web Series, 2013
Underlying Conditions, site-specific installation, Carriage House, Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA, 2013
InLight, 1708 Gallery, Canal Walk, Richmond, VA, 2013
Centers, group show, 423 Gallery, Richmond, VA, 2012
Recursion, installation in collaboration with sound artist, John Dombroski, FAB Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 2012
First Hour, group exhibition, Art 6, Richmond, VA, 2012
Black Desk, group exhibition, FAB Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 2011
The SOLA Project, solo exhibition, ISHQ Fine Arts Gallery, Richmond, VA, 2010
Street Stories Project, solo exhibition, Metro Art Space, Richmond, VA, 2009
Broken City Series, solo exhibition, Metro Art Space, Richmond, VA, 2009
Spades Play, The Fire House Theatre, Richmond, VA, 2008
The Street Stories Project, solo exhibition, Firehouse Theatre, Richmond, VA, 2008
The Street Stories Project, Greater Richmond Transit Company Buses, Richmond, VA, 2007
Print Show, group show, FAB Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 2006
FESTIVALS | SCREENINGS
Festival All' Improvviso, Dance & Movement on Screen, Bologna, Italy, 2019
Lewis Laboratory, Mountain Lake Biological Station, University of Virginia, Pembroke, VA, 2018
The International Video Dance Festival of Burgundy, Burgundy, France, 2017
The Fine Arts Film Festival, Institute of Contemporary Art, Venice, CA, 2017
The Big Muddy, Department of Cinema and Photography, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale IL, 2017
Frame and Frequency, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Bogota, Columbia, 2017
Frame and Frequency, Visual Arts Center, Baltimore, MD, 2017
Dance Cinematic, Electric Cinema, FLATPACK Film Festival, Birmingham, UK, 2016
Hull Independent Cinema, Hull, UK, 2016
Richmond International Film Festival, Richmond, VA, 2016
Layers #4 Fads and Freud, Dutch Art Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2016
Richmond International Film Festival, Richmond, VA, 2016
New Media Film Festival, Los Angeles, VA, 2016
Leeds 29th International Film Festival, Leeds, UK, 2015
Animation Day in Cannes, Quebec Canada, 2015
Yorkshire Dance, Everyman Cinema, Trinity Leeds, UK, 2015
Antimatter [Media Art], Victoria, BC, 2015
The Indie Gathering International Film Festival, Cleveland, OH, 2015
The Moonrise Film Festival, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2015
Richmond International Film Festival, Richmond, VA, 2015
All Media International Film Festival, Sacramento, CA, 2015
The Accolades Global Film Competition, La Jolla, CA, 2015
Manchester Film Festival, Official Selection, Experimental Film, Manchester UK, 2015
Access Code Short Film Festival, Bangalore, Karnataka, India, 2015
Extremely Shorts Film Festival, Houston, TX, 2015
ANIMAZE – Montreal International Animation Film Festival, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2015
Twelve Gates Video Art Festival, Drexel University, Westphal College of Media Arts and Design, Philadelphia, PA, 2015
We Have Never Been Modern, International Experimental Film and Video Exhibition, Dope Chapel, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 2014
Richmond Radicals Film Screening, Association of Moving Image Archivists, Richmond, VA, 2013
Conference on the Image, Chicago Art Department Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2013
Film and Video Series, Studio Two Three, Richmond, VA, 2012
BIBLIOGRAPHY | ARTICLES | REVIEWS
Anna MacDonald, Acts of Holding: Dance, Time, and Loss, The Bloomsbury Companion to Dance Studies, The Manchester Metropolotian University, 2019
Keith Waits, Music and Risks, 2019
Bill Doolittle, Abrams and Artists Add Sights and Sounds for Louisville Orchestra, 2019
Marty Rosen, Art and Music, ‘adventurous’ combo for Abrams + LO, Leo Weekly, 2019
Mariam Eqbal Opens New Avenues to Animation, Whitman Wire, 2018
Nicki Stein, The Silos Artist Collective, Whurk Magazine, 2018
The Gravity of the Situation, Culture Works, 2017
Art in Motion, Virginia Wesleyan University, 2016
International Journal of Screendance Studies, Field Perceptions, Ohio State University, 2016
The Case for Global Films: Leeds Film Festival Short Film Winners, 2015
Hamish MacPherson, “What are Screendance Competitions Even for? Response to the 2015 Leeds International
Film Festival Screendance Competition”, The International Journal for Screendance, 2015
Shiftwork: Unspooled, Leeds International Film Festival, 2015
“Art in Motion”, Amplifications and Measures, Neil Britton, 2015
Guy Madden, “The Review”, TIFF.40, Issue 09, November 22, 2015
“Glitch”, Please Hold Magazine, Issue 4, September 2015
“VideoFocus”, Stigmartpress, Art Press Biennial Edition, Stigmart 10, April 17, 2015
Paul Bond, “The Cluster Project: Artists against cluster bombing of civilians”, World Socialist Web Site, July 20, 2013
“Underlying Conditions”, VCU Scholar Compass, May 2013.
Karin Kapsidelis, “Muslims in Richmond strive to show true face of Islam”, Richmond Times Dispatch, September 7, 2011
Karin Kapsidelis, “Artist creates project to denounce terrorism”, Richmond Times Dispatch, January 8, 2010
“Zero Hour” with Tim Bowring, (interview) WRIR Radio, Richmond, VA, 2010
Article, “Written on Cloth”, Style Weekly, January 14, 2009
Bob Paris, “As if Human”, Surfing the Spectacle, 2008
Press Release: 1708 Gallery, Art for All, The Examiner online, 2008
Michael Paul Williams, “VCU students’ moving exhibit tells stories of homeless” (feature), Richmond Times Dispatch, April 15, 2007
GRANTS | RESIDENCIES | AWARDS
Art Lab, Mountain Lake Biological Station, University of Virginia, Pembroke, VA, 2018
Art Lab, Mountain Lake Biological Station, University of Virginia, Pembroke, VA, 2017
Best Film, International Screendance Competition, Leeds International Film Festival, Leeds, UK, 2015
Adjunct Research Grant, School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 2015
Professional Fellowship, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 2015
Award of Merit, Accolades Global Film Competition, La Jolla, CA, 2015
Graduate Research Grant, School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 2013
Community Arts Residency, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA, 2010
Fellowship Grant, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA, 2010
Public Arts & Community Service Grant, Association of Physicians of Pakistani Descent of North America, Richmond, VA, 2008
Dean’s Award, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 2007
TEACHING APPOINTMENTS
Visiting Faculty, 2020
Beaconhouse National University, Mariam Dawood School of Visual Art and Design, Lahore, Pakistan
Graduate Program, Animation Studies, Global Classroom for Art and Design
Visiting Instructor, 2020
The Lyceum, Karachi Pakistan
Cambridge International, Advanced Level Studies, Digital New Media
Part-time Faculty, 2014 – 2019
University of Richmond, Department of Art and Art History
Video, Animation, Drawing
Affiliate Graduate Faculty, 2013 – 2017
Virginia Commonwealth University, School of the Arts Advisor
Graduate Thesis Committee Member
Adjunct Faculty, 2007 – 2018
Virginia Commonwealth University, School of the Arts, Department of Art Foundation and Department of Kinetic Imaging
Professor of Animation, Video, Time Studio
Adjunct Faculty, 2009 – 2011
John Tyler Community College, School of Arts and Humanities Professor of Video and Animation
LECTURES | VISITING ARTIST
Visiting Artist / Lecture, 2021
Visiting Artist Colloquium, Graduate Studies University of Wisconsin, Madison, Art Department, Madison, WI
Visiting Artist Lecture, 2021
Department of Photography and Film Virginia Commonwealth University, School of the Arts, Richmond, VA
Visiting Artist / Lecturer, 2021
Virginia Tech, School of Visual Arts, Department of Creative Technologies, Blacksburg, VA
Guest Artist, 2019
Kentucky College of Art and Design / Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, Louisville, KY
Visiting Artist, Educator, 2019
College, Art Department, Walla Walla, WA
Guest Artist Lecturer, 2016
Wesleyan College, School of Visual Arts, Norfolk, VA
Guest Artist and Panelist, 2015
Drexel University, College of Media Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
EDUCATION
MFA – Kinetic Imaging, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 2014
BFA – Communication Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 2007