Altamash Urooj's Biography
Altamash Urooj is a Pakistani Venezuelan award winning art photographer. Born in 1984, he grew up in Karachi and moved to Dubai in 2004 to pursue his bachelors in fine arts. A graduate from the American University in Dubai with a BFA in photography, he divides his time between his art and commercial photography.
Altamash has exhibited works in prestigious spaces like The Empty Quarter, Art Space, Ayyam Gallery and Meem Gallery. His work has also travelled to the University of Arizona in Tuscon and the School of Visual Art gallery in New York as part of the Basically Human collective.
Altamash is one of the winners of the Shiekha Manal s Young Artists Award 2009 and of the Meem Gallery student exhibition 2008. He is a prominent artist in the Basically Human collective. Altamash is a founding member of the A106 collective and works with photography, video art, performance art, installation work and stop motion photography.
Credits/Awards/Background Information
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Exhibitions
Art Dubai Sheikha Manal Young Artist Award Winners Stand, March 16th to 20th 2010
Sense Of Sight Ductac, Mall of the Emirates community and Theatre centre, Dubai Feb 10 2010
Shiekha Manals young artist award exhibition Dubai Ladies club, 7th November 2009
Basically Human II The Empty Quarter, DIFC , Dubai, 15th September-4th October 2009
Basically human II SVA Gallery, Manhattan, NY 8th July -20th July 2009
Silent conversations Tashkeel, 12th March -30th March 2009
Do Not Feed The Artists 18th Jan - 4th Feb 2009
Rituals Of Dinner at the Ayyam Gallery Graduating students exhibition 1st Dec-6th Dec 08
Meem Gallery Exhibition Student competition, Winner June-Sept 2008
Cliche Exhibition at Traffic Gallery June 2008
Timecards exhibition May 2008
Art for Rent Mall of the Emirates community and Theatre centre, Dubai Dec 2007
Basically Human, Dubai. Art Space Gallery, The Fairmont Hotel May 2007
Gulf Art Fair Bastakiya exhibit March 2007
Basically Human, Tuscon, Arizona University of Arizona Dec 2006
?Bulb Fiction Video Art exhibition Mall of the Emirates community and Theatre centre, Dubai Nov 2006
Media and Marketing exhibition, Trade Centre, Dubai 2006
Sheep Are Welcome, The SoHo Gallery, Dubai. Fall 2005