Resume & Bio

WHO IS ASHEER AKRAM?

Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma USA in 1984, Asheer Akram is an emerging artist based out of Kansas City, Missouri. He completed his BFA in sculpture at the Kansas City Art Institute in 2007. He has recently been producing public sculpture that brings about questions of social-cultural evolution and development in regards to the globalization of developing countries. Asheer has moved beyond commentary of his own cultural background in attempts to address these issues in a wider context. In his recent work he has been creating a hybrid of traditional Islamic art with aspects of American culture and fine art to create a finalized object. Asheer is interested in the movement of the fine arts in respect to defining cultural significance. He picks obscure or overlooked aspects that help make up the fabric of a culture and repurposes and reappropriates that aspect in order to bring them into another light and to help them to be recognized and respected for their real cultural significance.

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011 The Late Show, Transformations, Kansas City, Missouri
2010 Modern Art Museum of Armenia, Moving A Mountain, Yerevan, Armenia
2009 Avila University, A Summer @ 1828, Kansas City, Missouri
2009 The Late Show, Ink and Ore, Kansas City, Missouri
2008 Leedy Volkous Art Center, @ The Buie Blood, Sweat, Tears and Trade, Kansas City, Missouri
2006 Sardine Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
2004 Huyka Gallery, Warning, Kansas City, Missouri

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010 Gyumri International Biennale, Gyumri, Armenia
2009 Epstein Gallery, Urban Suburban, art auction, Overland Park, Kansas
2008 Pi Gallery, Square Foot Show, Kansas City, Missouri
2008 Moberg Gallery, Sculpture 2, Des Moines, Iowa
2008 Third Eye Productions, The Charlotte Street Reclaim, Kansas City, Missouri
2008 Epstein Gallery, Urban Suburban, art auction, Overland Park, Kansas
2008 The Late Show, Naughty Elves, Kansas City, Missouri
2007 The Late Show, Group Show, Kansas City, Missouri
2006 A.D. Jacobsen Building, Group Sculpture Exhibition, Kansas City, Missouri

COMPETITIONS & AWARDS

2011 Belger art center residency program, Kansas City, Missouri
2011 The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, public mobile commission, collaboration with Peregrine Honig
2010 Lighton International Artist Exchange Grant-for research in Pakistan, Kansas City, Missouri
2010 Art and Cultural Studies Laboratory Residency, Yerevan, Armenia
2010 Modern Art Museum of Armenia, Public Sculpture Purchase, Yerevan, Armenia
2010 Multiple Awards for Documentary Film “Moving a Mountain”
2009 Art in the R competition, Public steel sculpture, Roland Park, Kansas
2009 Jan 8th, Kansas City Star, Ink and Ore, show review by Theresa Bermbnister
2009 Avila University, public sculpture commission, Kansas City, Missouri
2009 Commission sculptural/architectural steel, Extra Virgin, Kansas City, Missouri
2008 Oct 26th, Kansas City Star, American artist inspired by Aga Khan collection of Islamic Art,
2007 Art in the R competition, Public Ceramic Sculpture, Roeland Park, Kansas
2006 Jan Pyle, Two Cast Bronze Panels, Liberty, Missouri
2006 Don Anderson, Public Ceramic Sculpture, Kansas City, Missouri

EDUCATION

2007 Bachelors Fine Art, Kansas City Art Institute; Kansas City, Missouri
2007 Internship with Jim Leedy at the Leedy Volkous Art Center, Kansas City, Missouri
2007-2008 Apprenticeship to Jesse Small, Kansas City, Missouri