(b. 1971, Pakistan)


Education

MFA, California State University, Fullerton, California

BFA, Indus Valley School Art & Architecture, Karachi, Pakistan

Digital Design Course, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California


Awards and Honors

49th International Art Show, Digital Art Prize, Brownsville Museum of Fine Art,TX

Lorenzo IL Magnifico Award, XIII Florence Biennale:International Award for New Media/Digital Art in Contemporary Art, Fortezza da Basso, Florence Italy

6th Louisiana National Biennial Award: Possible Impossible Worlds. LATECH School of Art and Design, Louisiana

Michael Tomassoni Artist Accessibility Award, Smithsonian Affiliation: Annmarie Sculpture Garden and

Arts Center, Solomons, Maryland

Shortlisted, Alpine Fellowship Visual Art Prize 

Finalist Photography Competition, Dek Unu Magazine, Florida

Phi Kappa Phi, Invitational Member, National Honor Society, USA

Artist's Passion for Art and Culture Recognized. CSUF News

Winner of International Understanding Award, California State University, Fullerton, California

Winner of William G. Pollock Award, California State University, Fullerton, California

Winner of Alberta Lambert Award, California State University, Fullerton, California

Graduate Scholarship Award, California State University, Fullerton, California

Winner of the Prospects for Change Award, California State University, Fullerton, California

Book Scholarship, California State University, Fullerton

Jury Panelist

Impact Project Grant, California Arts Council Grants, California

Ontario Arts Council Artists Grants, Toronto, Canada


Solo Show and Artist Talk

2022 Art San Diego 22: Contemporary Art and Design Fair/ Redwood Art, Solo Booth;

San Diego Convention Center, CA

2010 The Synergy of Space, Degree Solo, Leo Freedman Gallery, California State University Fullerton, CA

2009 Refracted Memoirs Solo Show, Artist Talk. Deborah Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA


Selected Exhibitions

2024 My Intimate Partner; Curator: Smadar Samson; Curator: Katie Dolgov, Oceanside Museum of Art, San Diego, CA

2024 49th International Art Show, Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, TX. Juror: Alison De Lima Greene, curator at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

2024 37th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper; (Juror: Graham C. Boettcher:Birmingham Museum of Art), Grand Gallery, Shearman Fine Arts Annex, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA

2023-24 National Contemporary Portraiture Show, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX

2023 Spectrum Gestalt, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2023 Chaffey Museum of Art in collaboration w/Ontario Airport Art Exhibit Terminal 4, California 

2022 Beyond the Decorative. Curator Adam Sobolick.Great Park Art Gallery, CA

2022  Art San Diego 22; Contemporary Art and Design Fair/ Redwood Art, Solo Booth Platform; 

San Diego Convention Center, CA

2022 FAM’s Mini Masterpieces. Exhibition and Art Auction. Freeport Art Museum, IL

2022 Future Places, Juror: Dr. Julie Wosk. 7th Annual Juried Exhibition, Lobby Gallery, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA

2022 Evenings of the Brain, Leo Freeman Gallery, California State University Fullerton

Curator: The Nguyen, California State University, CA

2022 Watery Wonders. Photography, Juror: Michele McCormick, Sacramento Fine Arts Center, 

Carmichael, CA 

2022  21st Japan International Art Exchange / The USA Exhibition. Curator: Julienne Johnson, The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan 

2022 World Art Day Untitled Virtual Show. UNESCO, IAA/USA-International Association of Art, USA

2022  Adorned: Inspired by Fabric and Fashion. Smithsonian Affiliation: Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Arts Center, Solomons, Maryland. Juror: Scott Andresen, LSU College of Art +Design. Baton Rouge, LA

2022  Drama: Story-Telling in Art. The Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, California. Curator: Ziying Duan from Orange County Museum of Art, California

2022 6th Louisiana Biennial: Possible Impossible Worlds. National Juried Exhibition. The School of Design Art Gallery, Louisiana Tech University of Design. Juror: Rebecca Hart, Independent Curator and Department Head at Detroit Institute of Arts, Curator and Department Head of the Denver Art Museum 

2021 Eternal Feminine/Eternal Change: Concepts of Femininity in Contemporary Art and Design. 

XIII Florence Biennale, Fortezza da Basso, Florence,Italy

2021 Viridian's 31st Annual Juried Competition. Juror: Susan Harris, Contemporary Art Critic, The Brooklyn Rail, ARTnews, Art in America. New York, NY

2021 Contemporary Venice, The Secret Garden, Chiesa dell’Abbazia della Misericordia, Misericordia Archives

Cannaregio, Venice, Italy

2021 Reflection, Launch LA, The Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles. Juror: Sunook 

Park from ANDLAB and Terrell Tilford, Curator of Contemporary and Modern Art, Los Angeles, California

2021 Borders: Future Landscapes. The Room Contemporary. Italian-German Cultural Association. Venice International Art Fair, Venice, Italy

2021 SMFA Art Show. School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts. 

Jurors: Katie Block: Director,Curatorial Committee DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln. Atsu Gunther, Atsu Gunther Design and Craig Tevolitz at Platemark Design. Hadley Powell at Powell Fine Art Advisory and Former Researcher of Prints at Christie’s. 

2021 Anthropocene Epiphany: Art and Climate Change. Orange County Center for Contemporary Art.  Juror, Erika Hirugami, Executive Director of Art Historians of Southern California, California 

2016 Featured Cover Art. Orange Coast Review, Book Signing and Art Show. Orange Coast College. Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Costa Mesa, California

2015 Photic Reflections. Leo Freedman Gallery. Curator: The Nguyen, Prof. PrintmakingCalifornia State University, Fullerton, California

2014 You Shall be Judged. Leo Freedman Gallery.  Curator: The Nguyen, Prof. Printmaking, California State University, Fullerton, California

2011 Art Of Our Century. Kimball Art Center. Juror: Erin Linder, Director of Exhibitions at the UVU Woodbury 

Art Museum, UT

2011  Big Draw Little Draw. Abecedarian Gallery.  Denver, Colorado. Juror: Dr. Gwen Chanzitat at Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

2011 Cathartic Art: Remembering September 11th. West Baton Rouge Museum, Port Allen, Louisiana. Curator:  Lauren Davis

2011 48th Annual Juried Competition. Masur Museum of Art,  Monroe, LA

2010 Contemporary Art Center, Lines of Confrontation: Calligraphic artwork w/ Saira Wasim. Curator: Justine Ludwig, Cincinnati, OH

2010  Off the Wall. Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, California

2010  Made in California. Brea Art Gallery, Brea, California. Curator Grace Kook-Anderson from Laguna Art Museum, California


Selected Exhibition Catalogues

Exhibition Catalogue, 21st Japan International Art Exchange / The USA Exhibition,The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan, 2022

Exhibition Catalogue, Eternal Feminine/Eternal Change: Concepts of Femininity in Contemporary Art and 

Design, XIII Florence Biennale, Italy 2021


Selected Press/Reviews/Books

Thames & Hudson Art Reference, History & Theory,“Gateways to Drawing 2nd Edition”, Stephen C. P. Gardner. 

Brackett, Donald. (Ed.). (2022, May 26). Otherworldly: The haunting icons of Fatima Jamil 

https://www.criticsatlarge.ca/2022/05/otherworldly-haunting-icons-of-fatima.html

Walker, Sylvia. (Ed.). (2022,June 14). Artist Spotlight. Fatima Jamil. CAI. Contemporary Art Issue.

Kortrijk, Belgium https://www.contemporaryartissue.com/fatima-jamil/

Mallinson, Constance. (n.d.) Beyond the Decorative Exhibition. Essay: Constance Mallinson 


Collections

Permanent collection, University of Wyoming Art Museum, USA

Permanent collection, UMMA, University of Michigan Museum of Art,USA

Japan International Art and Cultural Exchange Chairman; Katsu Shimmin,Japan