Ali Kazim was born in Pakistan, in 1979. Currently he lives and works in Lahore, Pakistan.He received his BFA in painting from the National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan in 2002 and an MFA in painting from the Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK, in 2011. His work exhibited widely in solo and group shows internationally.
He has received a number of awards and artist residencies including; artist in residence at Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; inaugural Karachi Biennale jury prize; Finalists for the Catlin Prize, UK; The Art House Residency, Wakefield, UK; The Land Securities Studio Award, London, UK; Melvill Nettleship Prize for Figure Composition, UCL, London; Art OMI artist residency, New York, USA; Young Painter Award, Lahore Arts Council, Pakistan; ROSL Travel Scholarship: Residency at Hospital Field, Scotland, UK; Vasl Residency (Triangle Arts Trust), Karachi, Pakistan; International Artist Camp, George Kyet Foundation, Sri Lanka.
His work is in the collection of the Tate, UK; British Museum UK; Victoria and Albert Museum UK; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Metropolitan Museum NYC; Asia Pacific Museum, USA; Rose Art museum, USA; Queensland Art Gallery Australia; Qatar Museums, Qatar; Sharjah foundation, UAE; Burger Collection Hong Kong; Creative Cities Collection, Beijing; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India; Devi Art Foundation, Delhi, India; Samdani Foundation, Dhaka; Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation, Dhaka; Kemal Lazar Foundation, Tunisia, Islamabad Airport, Pakistan.
