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Contributor
Murtaza Vali

Murtaza Vali is a critic and curator based in New York and Sharjah.

Profiles
Artist as Ghostwriter: Sheida Soleimani’s Tableaux of Care

The photographer and wildlife rehabilitator explores migration, exile and healing in her show at the International Center of Photography, New York

BY Murtaza Vali |
Exhibition Reviews
Sohrab Hura’s Photographs Rest Between Testimony and Confession

The New Dehli-based artist’s survey at MoMA PS1, New York, interweaves the autobiographical and the sociopolitical to consider the state of his motherland

BY Murtaza Vali |
Reviews , US Reviews
With Paper, Zarina Opens a Window onto the Cosmos

The artist’s solo exhibition at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation is a serene and spiritual survey of her five-decade practice 

BY Murtaza Vali |
Reviews
Wael Shawky Takes on the ‘Dinosaur’ of US Imperialism in the Gulf

The artist’s fantastical sculptures and bas reliefs, on view at Lisson, New York, combine prehistoric creatures with oil barons and kings

BY Murtaza Vali |
Reviews
Hayv Kahraman

Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA

BY Murtaza Vali |