{"id":126,"date":"2014-10-30T21:56:54","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T13:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andriandesign.com\/weilingdemo\/?page_id=126"},"modified":"2026-03-28T11:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T03:47:16","slug":"amin-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/artists\/amin-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Amin Gulgee &#8211; Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-186x8u-6e402f1948bcc2727d3d4dd7ff72ea4c\">\n.avia-section.av-186x8u-6e402f1948bcc2727d3d4dd7ff72ea4c{\nbackground-color:#f2f2f2;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-186x8u-6e402f1948bcc2727d3d4dd7ff72ea4c main_color avia-section-small avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_section  avia-builder-el-first  avia-bg-style-scroll  container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-126'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><h1 style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 30px; font-family: Open sans;\">Amin Gulgee<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/main><!-- close content main element --><\/div><\/div><div id='artists-title'  class='avia-section av-xb1zq-36adc36c5dc93fa00b2676f87bdef5e7 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_section  avia-builder-el-last  avia-bg-style-scroll  container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-126'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div class='flex_column av-p4htq-92fb43cdf8030008547d2d2807ac5866 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-3  el_before_av_hr  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div '   ><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><h3 class=\"p1\" style=\"font-family: 'eb garamond'; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Amin Gulgee \u2013 Overview\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/artists\/amin-overview\/\">overview<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a class=\"selected\" title=\"Amin Gulgee \u2013 Biography\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Amin-Gulgee-CV-updated.pdf\">biography (CV)<\/a> |&nbsp;<a title=\"Amin Gulgee \u2013 Exhibitions\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/artists\/amin-exhibition-4\/\">exhibitions<\/a>&nbsp;| <a title=\"Amin Gulgee \u2013 Publications\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/artists\/amin-publications\/\">Publications<\/a> | <a title=\"Amin Gulgee \u2013 Press and News\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/artists\/amin-press-and-news\/\">press and news<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-hpmkm-8a80926a6831ca2b2bb8b5b9d9d4253a\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-hpmkm-8a80926a6831ca2b2bb8b5b9d9d4253a{\nheight:30px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-hpmkm-8a80926a6831ca2b2bb8b5b9d9d4253a hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_textblock  '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Amin Gulgee (B.1965)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Amin Gulgee is a sculptor, curator and performance artist from Pakistan. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">His works possess a spirituality that transcend religion, exploring spiritual territories and narrative traditions, with their intersections bridging sculpture, installation and performance. An aesthetic patron of Sufism &#8211; a unique manifestation of the spiritual side of Islam &#8211; his works mirror his individual struggle to perceive himself and to substantiate his essence through an immediate and pure union of the soul with the Divine. The elemental forms and simple scripts in his work, he believes, will help crystallize this connection. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In his curatorial strategy he explores the tension between gender, time, and human connections. He has curated or co-curated many large-scale non-commercial exhibitions in his eponymous gallery and was chief curator of the first Karachi Biennale in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In the last decade he has staged over a dozen performance works in Karachi, Lahore, Dubai and Nagoya, as well as the Royal Albert Hall in London and has exhibited his sculptures and installations extensively across the USA, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">His most recent solo exhibition, \u2018<em>7<\/em>\u2019, debuted at the Wei-Ling Contemporary in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 2018, and later travelled to the Galleria d\u2019Arte Moderna in Milan, Italy, followed by the Museum of Contemporary Art Rome (MARCO) in Rome, Italy. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Amin Gulgee has received numerous awards, including the President\u2019s Pride of Performance in 2005. In 2012, he was named one of the Pakistan Power 100. He has also been hailed as one of Pakistan\u2019s most important sculptors on the Metropolitan Museum of Art\u2019s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amin Gulgee overview&nbsp;|&nbsp;biography (CV) |&nbsp;exhibitions&nbsp;| Publications | press and news Amin Gulgee (B.1965) Amin Gulgee is a sculptor, curator and performance artist from Pakistan. His works possess a spirituality that transcend religion, exploring spiritual territories and narrative traditions, with their intersections bridging sculpture, installation and performance. 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