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HONORS STUDIO AND DISPLAY

1960-61 Vice President, Student Welfare Society, Sialkot. Farooqi Art Studio/ Dervishgah
1962-65 General Secrectary, WPYM, Sialkot. M8, Siddiq Trade Center, Main Gulberg, Lahore, Pakistan.

1965-67 President “Shaheen” of WPYM, Lahore. Contact: +92 306 401 6514
1967-68 Assistant Secretary General WPYM, Lahore. email: sfarooqiart@yahoo.com,

1972 Joint Secretary, Punjab Art Society, Lahore. farooqiart@gmail.com
1982-83 Member, Art Committee, Lahore Art Council, Lahore.
1983 Member, Calligraphist Association of Tehran, Iran. Mrs. Najam House

1984-85 Chairman, Art Committee, Academy for Disabled, Lahore Pakistan. 132-A, Street 109, Sector G-11/3, Islamabad, Pakistan.
1986-87 Member, Executive Committee, Artists Association of Punjab. Contact: +92 302 854 1105

1990 Member, Art Committee Lahore Art. Council.
1990 Vice President Calligraphist Guild of Pakistan, Lahore. Umer Farooq Farooqi
1993 Pattern, Society for the Advancement of Mentally Retarded (SAMR), Lahore. Contact: +92 300 503 6836

1998 Secretary General, Pakistan Calligraphic Artist Guild.
1998 Chairman, Family Support Program, Pakistan.

JOBS EXPERIENCE

1965-75 Graphic Artist, IER, Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan.
1971-72 Audio Visual Aids Officer, NIPA, Lahore, Pakistan.

1975-80 Audio Visual Aids Officer, Pakistan Administrative Staff College, Lahore.
1980-82 Audio Visual Aids and Publications Officer, Civil Services Academy, Lahore,
Pakistan.
1982-90 Advisor for Vocational Training, Fountain House, Lahore, Pakistan.

1991-99 Project Director, Family Support Program for Special Children, Istanbul.
2001-04 Faculty Member of Ajman University of Science and Technology, Interior Design
Department (UAE).

2005 Established a Studio, as Dervish Gah/ Farooqi Art Studio in Siddiq Trade Center,
Lahore, Pakistan.

STATEMENT OF ARTIST

My paintings are formed out of my impressions, observations and my emotional experiences, I
see reality as an endless process of conflicts and decisions, therefore the totality of experience
can never be resolved in a definite way. The texture of life is like the surface of a block of
clay; it is shaped and molded by the circumstances of daily conflicts, personal and collective
catastrophes and individual questioning. My work lives on this quest until it becomes a rite of
realizations, a struggle for the possibility to order the sensation of consciousness.

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