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Anwar Jalal Shemza |
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Anwar Jalal was born in Simla, India in 1928, he received his BFA from the Mayo School of Art (now National College of Arts) in Lahore, before enrolling at the Slade School of Art, London (1956). While living in London he showed alongside F.N. Souza and Avinash Chandra at Victor Musgrave’s Gallery One, and had solo shows at both Gallery One (1960) and the influential New Visions Centre (1958).
His work has been exhibited widely, including at the 6th Triennial of World Art, New Delhi, 1956; 5th Exhibition of International Prints, Moderna Galerija, Ljubiana, 1963; Graphische Sammlung, Vienna, 1963; Treasures from the Commonwealth, Royal Academy of Arts, London 1965; 6th International Print Biennial, Tokyo, 1968; 1st British International Drawing Biennial, Teeside Art Gallery, 1973 (where he was a Major Prize recipient); The Other Story, Hayward Gallery, London 1989-90; Printmakers of Pakistan, Bradford City Art Gallery & Museum, 1997-98; Typo, Ikon, Birmingham, 1999-2000; and Pakistan Another Vision, Centre of Contemporary Art, Glasgow; Huddersfield Art Gallery; Brunei Gallery, London 2000. Selected solo shows include Pakistan National Council of the Arts, Karachi, Rawalpindi, Lahore1960-2; Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art, Durham, 1963; Commonwealth Institute, Edinburgh, 1969; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1972; Indus Gallery, Karachi,1985; Manchester Metropolitan University, 1992 and the Birmingham City Museum, 1997-8. Shemza died in Stafford, UK, in 1985.
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