Huma Mulji works across media, largely with sculptural installation, photography and collage. Drawing on the city and its collective memory, within a backdrop of economic globalization, state power and fragmented histories, she activates the dysfunctional, the sorrowful, the futile and the funny. The sculptures stand as inconvenient witnesses to time and place, critically exploring material & form in her deliberately awkward works. Mulji has an abiding interest in examining the specificity of place, amplifying a perpetual discomfort and skepticism from the perspective of both observer and participant.
Mulji’s participation in recent exhibitions includes Aftermath, KitForm, Bristol (2024); Proposals for a Memorial to Partition, 12 Gates, Philadelphia (2023); Your Tongue in My Mouth (solo), Mirror, Plymouth, (2022); Can you Hear my Voice? Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, (2021); Skyfall, (solo) Karachi, Pakistan (2020); The Centre of Gravity, Bristol, UK, (2020); In the Open and in Stealth MACBA, Barcelona, Spain (2018); Witness, Karachi Biennale (2017); welcome to what we took from is the state, Queens Museum, New York, USA (2017); A country of Last Things, Koel Gallery, Karachi, (2016); The Great Game, Irani Pavilion, Venice Biennale, (2015); and Burning Down the House, 10th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea, (2014).
Mulji has been awarded the DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Visual Arts fellowship for 2024-25. She currently lives in Bristol, UK and teaches at the University of the West of England, Bristol.