Sohail Zuberi

Born in 1970 in Karachi (Pakistan)
Lives and works in Karachi (Pakistan)

Sohail Zuberi is a graphic designer, photographer and visual artist based in Karachi. He graduated from the Karachi School of Art in 1992. Along with his independent practice, Zuberi has been associated with academia for the past sixteen years. He was the head of the Communication Design department at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture 2012-2015, and has taught design, fine art and photography at the University of Karachi and the Textile Institute of Pakistan. Zuberi is also a former trustee of Vasl Artists’ Collective. Currently, he is a core team member of Numaish-Karachi, an interdisciplinary art collective, and serves on the board of Pakistan Chowk Cultural Centre, Karachi.

Sohail Zuberi writes of his installation for KB17: “Across decades, Karachi has undergone (and continually endures) a radical and mostly unplanned modification into a megalopolis. The desultory expansion leaves limited to no opportunities and amenities to accommodate its surging inhabitants, who in the face of which consequentially adapt to the domestic constraints and exploit the everyday dynamics to their advantage. By investigating the contextually extracted concept of 'adapters' and ‘exploiters’2, I amplify narratives on Karachi's ceaselessly revised physiognomy, and extrapolate the parallels between the human and animal species that are settled in — and are manoeuvring  — this urban sprawl.”