Sheherezade Alam (1947/1948 – 19 May 2022) was a Pakistani ceramist.
Education and family
Alam was born in Pakistan to Mahmoud Alam, a Pakistani former tennis player and his wife, Surayya, in Lahore. She had two brothers, Asad and Shaban. Brought up in Lahore, she completed her FA from its Kinnaird College. She went on to obtain her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Design with a distinction in ceramics from Lahore's National College of Arts (NCA), where she studied under the country's first ceramist, Salahuddin Mian. She later became an artist-in-residence at Yale University. She taught at the NCA, as well as at Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey).
Personal life
In 1971, she married Zahoor ul Akhlaq (1941–1999), a painter, and the couple had two daughters, Jahanara (1974–1999) and Nurjahan (b. 1979). Zahoor and Jahanara were murdered in their home in Lahore in 1999 by a visiting acquaintance, Shahzad Butt, a roti merchant of the city. The killer could give no reason for having turned his gun on them.
Career
Shows
Group
1980: Sultan Art Gallery, Kuwait
1983: Group Show, British Council, Islamabad
1983: Group Show, Rohtas Gallery, Islamabad
1988: Joint exhibition, Yale University, New Haven, USA
1995 to 1999: Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition (yearly) 2009: Group Show, Vogue Art Gallery, Islamabad.
Solo
1990: Chawkandi Arts, Karachi
1993: Ish Gallery, Ankara, Turkey
1994: Bismillah, Arcadia Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1996: Clay Continuum, Gardiner Art Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2004: Offering Bowls, Arcadia Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2005: Laali, Ceramic Installation, Private Residence, Lahore 2006: Laali, The garden of Imran Mir, Karachi