Biography

Born in Tanzania to Pakistani parents, Chowdhary moved to England in 1970.¶ She has a Masters degree from the Royal College of Art and has been shortlisted for the Jerwood Prize in Ceramics, the Annual Freelands Foundation Award, the Juda Foundation Award, the Paul Hamlyn Award and has completed artists residencies at Camden Arts Centre, Victoria and Albert Museum London, IASPIS Stockholm and Mahler& Lewitt Italy.¶ Chowdhary lives and works in London.

Essays, Interviews and Articles

Pluriverse. Bloomberg Connects interview 2024
Pluriverse. Priyesh Mistry 2024
Disjunctions. Kevin Jones. 2023
Disobedient Objects. Jennifer Higgie. 2023
Erratics MIMA. Studio International Hettie Judah. 2022
Erratics. Art Monthly. Emelia Terracciano. 2022
The Works of Lubna Chowdhary by Diksha Gupta, AD India. 2021
Erratics Review. Eazel Magazine. Grace Storey. 2021
Lubna Chowdhary and David Batchelor. Artists in Conversation 2021
Talk Art Pod Cast 2021
Free Thinking. Art and Ideas. BBC Radio 3
Peer Gallery, Erratics 2021
Subversive Deposits. Daniel F Herrmann. 2021
Friday Dispatch. Erratics. Ilaria Puri Purini 2021
Reinvention of Form. Frieze. Allie Biswas 2021
Grey Area. Hugh Raffles 2021
Transitioning Images. Veeranganakumari Solanki 2021
Code Switch. The Hindu 2021
Ocula Essay. Stephanie Bailey 2021
Wallpaper 2021
Code Switch. Murtaza Vali 2021
74 Podcast Interview. Shwetal A Patel 2020
Dr Cleo Roberts Talk. JC Live 2020
Le Quotidien de l'Art. Natalie Guiot 2019
Towards New Cannons. Tania Harrod Essay 2019
Financial Times 2019
Nancy Durrant (The Times) Essay 2018
India Today 2018
Contemporary Arts Society 2018
The Hindu 2017
Metropolis Disegno Daily 2017
V&A. Ralph Day 2017
V&A II. Ralph Day 2017
Through the Aperture. Iftikar Dadi. Domus India 2017
Wallpaper 2014
Its Nice That 2013

Awards

1990  The Sir Eduardo Paolozzi Travel Award
1992  Crafts Council Grant
1996  London Arts Board Award
1998  British Council Exhibitions Grant
1999  London Institute Research Award
2012  Arts Council England Award
2021 Arts Council England Award
2021 Nominated Freelands Foundation Award
2022 Nominated Juda Foundation Award
2022 Nominated Paul Hamlyn Award

Solo Exhibitions

1993  NeoGeo – Commonwealth Institute, London
1994  Metropolis – City Art Gallery, Leicester
1995  The Pearoom – Lincoln
1996  Clara Scremini Gallery – Paris
1998  Oldham Art Gallery – Lancashire
1998  Foyer, Angel Row Gallery – Nottingham
1998  Udstillingsted for Ny Keramic – Copenhagen
1999  Millais Gallery – Southampton
2003  Phillips Gallery – Walton on Thames
2019 Certain Times – Art Basel, Hong Kong
2021 Code Switch – Jhaveri Contemporary Mumbai
2021 Erratics – Peer Gallery London
2022 Erratics – MIMA Middlesborough
2023 Disjunctions – Gallery Isabelle, Dubai
2024 Pluriverse – Graves Gallery, Sheffield Museums

Selected Group Exhibitions

2001  Jerwood Ceramics Prize – London
2002 Acknowledged Sources – Hastings Museum
2003  Open – Triangle Gallery, London
2004 Import Export – British Council Touring Exhibition
2005  Import Export – Victoria & Albert Museum
2004  Obsession with Detail – Foundation Bernadaud, Limoges
2011  Collect – Saatchi Gallery, London
2104 Selected by – Limoncello Gallery
2017 Windows – Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai
2017 Metropolis – Victoria & Albert Museum
2017 Mind Forged – Frestonian Gallery London
2018 India Art Fair – New Delhi
2018 Speech Acts – Manchester City Art Gallery
2018 Freize Art Fair with Allied Editions
2018 What's Essential – Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai
2018 Kochi Biennale, Kochi, India
2019 India Art Fair – New Delhi
2019 Auf dem Weg zum Motiv – Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Berlin
2019 Towards New Canons – ICA Milan
2020 Green Art Gallery – Dubai
2020 Crafting Geometry – Sothebys New York
2020 Frieze Art Fair – New York
2020 Some Mysterious Process – Art Gallery NSW Sydney
2021 Freize Art Fair – New York
2021 Rhythm and Geometry – Sainsbury's Centre for the Visual Arts
2021 Frieze Art Fair – London
2021 The Dream of the Museum – M+ Hong Kong
2022 Pop South Asia – Sharjah Art Foundation. UAE
2022 Pop South Asia – Kiran Nader Museum of Art. New Delhi
2022 Strange Clay – Hayward Gallery. London
2022 Juda Foundation Award – Annely Juda Fine Art. London
2023 Abstract Colour – Marlborough Gallery, London
2023 A Tall Order – Touchstones Rochdale
2023 Interflow – Pilar Corrias Gallery, London
2023 Beyond the Page, Milton Keynes Gallery
2023 Abu Dhabi Art, with Gallery Isabelle
2024 First Foot Forward – Hampi Art Labs India
2024 Drawing Room Biennale - London

Selected Public Collections

Arts Council England Collection
Government Art Collection. UK
MIMA Middlesborough
M+ , Hong Kong
Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Fiorucci Foundation, Italy
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai
Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai
Sheffield Museums
University of Warwick Arts Collection
Cartwright Hall, Bradford
Leicester City Museum
Mead Gallery, Warwick
Abingdon Museum, Oxfordshire
Poole Museum, Dorset
Kiran Nadar Museum, New Delhi
Oldham Museum and Art Gallery
Touchstones, Rochdale

Publications

2023 Beyond The Page. Edited by Anthony Spira and Fay Blanchard
2022 Strange Clay. Ceramics in Contemporary Art. Hayward Gallery
2021 Rhythm and Geometry. Constructivist Art in Britain Since 1951
2019 50 Years of Art Basel. JRPI Editions. ISBN:978-3-03764-555-0
2018 Lubna Chowdhary. V&A Residency ISBN 978-1-78926-684-9
2009 Home Grown -The Cultivation of a Neighbourhood, Oliver Bennet
2009 Contemporary Ceramics. Emmanuel Cooper, Thames and Hudson
2008 Breaking the Mould - New Approaches to Ceramics. Black Dog Publishing
2002 Urban Futures. Critical Commentaries on Shaping Cities, Malcom Miles, Routledge
2001 Beyond Frontiers. Amal Ghosh and Juginder Lamba

Film

2021 Erratics. Alberto Balazs
2017 Metropolis at the V&A
1995 The Art. BBC Documentary
1992 Take 15. Bandung File. Channel 4

Residencies

1994 Camden Arts Centre. London
2017 Victoria and Albert Museum
2020 IASPIS Stockholm Sweden
2023 Mahler & LeWitt Studios Spoleto Umbria Italy