Basharat Ali Syed (b. 1996, Kashmir) is a New York-based artist whose practice moves across sculpture, installation, drawing, video and printmaking. He employs varied machine systems, and diverse imaging technologies within an interdisciplinary framework to examine volatile narratives surrounding disinheritance, delineation of borders, and bonds of mysticism. His practice systematically explores the antecedents of political and spiritual dissonance through a transnational lens. Tension is crafted between traditional fabrics and new media fabrications of cultural objects in his installations, contrasting old languages with new ones. Ali was awarded the NARS 2024 Season II Fellowship and is a MFA candidate at Hunter College. His work has been featured in several group exhibitions.
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Education
2019 - 2023 BFA Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York (with honors)
2024 - 2027 MFA Studio Art (New Genres), Hunter College, New York
Exhibitions
2025 Wasp Song, Medium Difficulty, Brooklyn, NY
2025 Little a, Hunter College, Curated by Talia Shiroma, New York
2025 Tracing… … …, The Blanc x Li Tang Community, New York
2025 Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair, Powerhouse, New York
2025 “Pyramid Schemes”, Hunter MFA Gallery, New York
2024 “Lost in Translation: Diary unwritten”, Flowing Space x IronVelvet, New York
2024 “Moral Injury”, Flush Gallery x Hercules Art Studio Program, New York
2024 “Site 003: Grass Stains”, Site, New York
2024 “Growing”, NARS Foundation, New York
2024 “A Window at A Space”, Aspace Gallery, New York
2023 “New Artifacts”, SVA Flatiron Gallery, New York
2023 “Hanging by a thread”, SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York
Residencies
2024 NARS International Artist Residency: Season II, April - June
Grants & Awards
2025 Esther Fish Perry Endowed Scholarship, Hunter College
2024 Fellowship, NARS Foundation
2023 Thesis Award, BFA Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts
2022 BFA Fine Arts Department Grant, School of Visual Arts
2021 BFA Fine Arts Department Grant, School of Visual Arts
2020 BFA Fine Arts Department Grant, School of Visual Arts
2019 Silas H. Rhodes Scholarship, School of Visual Arts