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Ammar lives and works in Lahore.  He graduated with a distinction in MA in Art and Design Studies ,2018 and Bachelors of Visual Arts , 2015 fromBeaconhouse National University, Lahore,Pakistan..Currently , he is teaching there too, alongside with his independent practice as multi-disciplinary artist.

Ammar has exhibited his works both Natinally and Internationally. His significant exhibitions include; The New Wight Biennial, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA, The Image Show in Tanzania, traveling exhibition ‘Make Being Radical’, China, Singapore and Holland. Recently, he exhibited a two person show ‘The Singer Not the Song’ curated by Prof. Salima Hashmi. He has also been shortlisted for
Rijksakademie van beeldendekunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands and Visiting Artist fellowship at Harvard University, USA in 2019.He is a recipient for ADA awards 2020-21 for his video based Artwork.

Faiz, in his work addresses the adaptation of human behavior to the changing roles of the viewer and the viewed. He observes mundane lives of ordinary people from the socially marginalized groups in his immediate surroundings and in the process he records the evolution of their concept of personal and public spaces. To that effect, his work hinges upon the sociocultural anthropological approach, which compares and correlates people, and their surroundings and how they make sense of it as narratives. His research process entails visualizing such narratives through time-based medium such as a camera, juxtaposing environs and personally significant objects.

He further investigates the origins and evolution and to digitally archive local/folk games  which are almost absent from public memory. These games were chosen as a mode of investigation and interest in the fact that these games have indefinite/ undefined, shifting origins since they have been transmitted orally.