Asif Mian

Bio: 00 born in jersey city, nj to pakistani immigrants. 

04 a gun to my head & held hostage in parents’ pharmacy in queens. 

06 first fistfight with a kid flying a kite. 

09 father is indicted for sexual assault. it was a hoax & charges dropped. 

11 fistfight at teaneck mosque. 

12 fresh raiders hat stolen off my head. 

14 fistfight with neighbor. 

16 wrestling captain. 

16 confront estranged father so he would leave the house. 

16 steal a car & bash 31 mailboxes on homecoming night. 

17 fistfight. 

17 shatter my wrist polevaulting. 

19 father mxrdered in terrel, texas. 

20 BA genetics & BA studio art from drew university. 

22 surrounded by 2 crackheads in LES: they think i have drugs. 

23 streetfight on 31st & park with a drug dealer whose drop-phone landed at our feet. 

25 begin meditating 

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Thesis Exhibition

L to R: Trauma Suit for RAF (40 x 30” x variable, SAE industrial wool felt, adhesive, acrylic polymer, 2018); Threat Value (9 x 7’, Hand knotted wool Afghan rug, machine woven polypropylene rug, 2018); Public Meeting Place (29 x 9 x 12’, Video Projection of More Human performance (18:07 TRT), Wood, gypsum, plaster, enamel, 2017)