Bio – Umer BUTT

Umer Butt (Dubai)
Umer Butt received his undergraduate degree in Fine Art with honors from National College
of Arts, Lahore in 2001 before pursuing his post graduate degree in Fine Art at Chelsea
College of Art and Design, London from 2003 – 04. Upon his return to Lahore in 2005, he
became adjunct faculty in the M.A Visual Art department at National College of Arts, Lahore,
where he taught until December 2007. In 2008 he founded Grey Noise in Lahore, which has
been nurturing conceptual artists from South Asia and beyond. The gallery relocated in 2012 to Dubai, where he now lives and works.

Umer Butt’s participation in FIELD MEETING is supported by Alserkal Avenue