Shakeel Siddiqui

Born in 1951 in Karachi (Pakistan)
Lives and works in Karachi (Pakistan)

Shakeel Siddiqui received his Diploma in Fine Art Painting from the Central Institute of Arts and Crafts, Karachi in 1975. He also studied at the Art Students’ League in New York from 1970 to 1972. At the the beginning of his career, he focused on figurative work and portraits in oil on canvas. Later, he moved on to still-life, also in oil on canvas. Since 1979, he has concentrated on super realism, also known as hyper realism. He taught at the Central Institute of Arts and Crafts, Karachi from 1986 to 1989 and at the Dubai International Art Centre from 1992 to 2004. He has had solo exhibitions of his work in Pakistan, the UAE, the UK, Canada and The Netherlands, and participated in numerous group exhibitions around the globe. 

Of his work for KB17, Shakeel Siddiqui writes: “I am submitting one painting. The subject is a noticeboard. I have tried to capture the third effect of a noticeboard which everyone of us has experienced. I went through almost all the details including the lettering on the papers. Almost all the papers are white and overlapping each other (white on white) but they are still easily differentiated.”