My practice is concerned with themes of embodiment, fragmentation, displacement, migration, post-colonialism and memory, often presenting the physical diasporic body as an evolving archive that transmits experience with cultural and political meaning. My work unravels across spaces and narratives to reveal new meanings and draw out personal histories. Working with narration, words, sound and images, I deploy fiction, non-fiction, archival material, storytelling and personal memories in works that manifests as sculpture, moving image, installation, sound and photography.
I grew up in Birmingham, I studied in Birmingham, Brighton and London. I am a part-time associate lecturer at Camberwell College of Arts on the BA Fine Art Drawing programme.
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Education
2020 MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College of Art, London
1996 MA Graphic Design, Royal College of Art, London
1993 BA Graphic Design, University of Brighton
Solo Exhibitions
2023. Articles of Home, Reid Gallery, GSA Exhibitions, Glasgow (solo)
2021 Inside the Country of the Skin, Stryx, Birmingham (solo)
Group Exhibitions
2022 Not to be a Singular Being, Chisenhale Art Place Studio, London
2022 Indernet Festival, Cologne, Germany
2022 Articles of Home, Luva Gallery, London
2022 The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2022 Image Behaviour, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London
2022 New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, London
2021 New Contemporaries, Firstsite, Colchester
2021 Groundings, Goldsmiths CCA, London
2021 Longshore Drifting, Safehouse 1, London
2020 London Grads, Saatchi Gallery, London
2020 Incarnations, Montez Press Radio, New York
2020 Indernet Festival, Cologne, Germany
2019 Members show, Eastside projects, Birmingham
2019 Ways of Belonging, Hippodrome Theatre, Birmingham
2019 Interim Exhibition, Goldsmiths, London
2019 Sight for Sore Eyes, Gossamer Fog, London
2018 Schwamerei, Ort Gallery, Birmingham
2018 Chromophobia, Sloe Gallery, Manchester
2017 Occupied exhibition, Stryx Gallery, Birmingham
2017 MA Fine Art show, Birmingham School of art
2015 Visual Think Tank, Amsterdam
2015 Sunday Salon, Amsterdam
Coming up;
Gerald Moore Gallery
Residency & Awards
2022 Selected for Image Behaviour experiments in artists’ moving image production award, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)
2022 Selected for The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery Open
2022 New Contemporaries Digital Fellowships - (short-listed)
2021 Selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021
2021 VR Artist Residency, Stryx Gallery, Birmingham
2020 Almacantar Studio Award at Bow Arts, London
2020 ACME Studio Award, London, (short-listed)
2020 Artquest Adaption Award, London, (short-listed)
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I grew up in Birmingham, I studied in Birmingham, Brighton and London. I am a part-time associate lecturer at Camberwell College of Arts on the BA Fine Art Drawing programme.

Education
2020 MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College of Art, London
1996 MA Graphic Design, Royal College of Art, London
1993 BA Graphic Design, University of Brighton
Solo Exhibitions
2023. Articles of Home, Reid Gallery, GSA Exhibitions, Glasgow (solo)
2021 Inside the Country of the Skin, Stryx, Birmingham (solo)
Group Exhibitions
2022 Not to be a Singular Being, Chisenhale Art Place Studio, London
2022 Indernet Festival, Cologne, Germany
2022 Articles of Home, Luva Gallery, London
2022 The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2022 Image Behaviour, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London
2022 New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, London
2021 New Contemporaries, Firstsite, Colchester
2021 Groundings, Goldsmiths CCA, London
2021 Longshore Drifting, Safehouse 1, London
2020 London Grads, Saatchi Gallery, London
2020 Incarnations, Montez Press Radio, New York
2020 Indernet Festival, Cologne, Germany
2019 Members show, Eastside projects, Birmingham
2019 Ways of Belonging, Hippodrome Theatre, Birmingham
2019 Interim Exhibition, Goldsmiths, London
2019 Sight for Sore Eyes, Gossamer Fog, London
2018 Schwamerei, Ort Gallery, Birmingham
2018 Chromophobia, Sloe Gallery, Manchester
2017 Occupied exhibition, Stryx Gallery, Birmingham
2017 MA Fine Art show, Birmingham School of art
2015 Visual Think Tank, Amsterdam
2015 Sunday Salon, Amsterdam
Coming up;
Gerald Moore Gallery
Residency & Awards
2022 Selected for Image Behaviour experiments in artists’ moving image production award, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)
2022 Selected for The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery Open
2022 New Contemporaries Digital Fellowships - (short-listed)
2021 Selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021
2021 VR Artist Residency, Stryx Gallery, Birmingham
2020 Almacantar Studio Award at Bow Arts, London
2020 ACME Studio Award, London, (short-listed)
2020 Artquest Adaption Award, London, (short-listed)

Contact: asufishaq@gmail.com
︎asuf_ishaq ︎Asuf Ishaq
Links to exhibitions and interviews
Goldsmiths CCA
https://goldsmithscca.art/event/film-programme-regroundings/
Goldsmiths CCA conversation
https://goldsmithscca.art/regroundings
New Contemporaries digital platform artist page
https://bnc2021.newcontemporaries.org.uk/artists/asuf-ishaq
New Contemporaries website artist page
https://www.newcontemporaries.org.uk/2021/artists/asuf-ishaq-
ICA artist page
https://www.ica.art/films/image-behaviour-2022/articles-of-home
Image Behaviour page
https://ica.art/films/image-behaviour-2022
Whitechapel Gallery https://thelondonopen.org/artist/asuf-ishaq/
https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/the-london-open-2022-artists/