Hyderabad

Rasheed AraeenWW-1962-136568

1962·Brush and black and red opaque watercolors and pastel on tan wove paper·63.8 × 75.3 cm (25 1/8 × 29 11/16 in.)

Catalogue

Year: 1962
Medium: Brush and black and red opaque watercolors and pastel on tan wove paper
Dimensions: 63.8 × 75.3 cm (25 1/8 × 29 11/16 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Rasheed Araeen

Artist

Rasheed Araeen

Painting

Rasheed Araeen is a Pakistani artist, theorist, and cultural activist born in 1935 whose practice spans sculpture, painting, and installation, with a sustained focus on geometric abstraction and its potential for social and political intervention. His work engages modernism not as a formal inheritance but as a contested terrain, interrogating the exclusion of non-Western artists from canonical narratives. A founding editor of Third Text, Araeen has been instrumental in reshaping discourse around postcolonial aesthetics and the politics of representation in contemporary art. His sculptures and paintings often employ modular systems and mathematical structures to examine ideas of order, equality, and cultural agency.

Karachi, Pakistan

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