Bibliography
Selected solo exhibition catalogues
2014
Amna Malik, Anwar Jalal Shemza, Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai
2010
Rachel Garfield, Perspectives 2, Green Cardamom, London
2009
Iftikhar Dadi, Perspectives 1, Green Cardamom, London
2006
Miriam Habib, Anwar Jalal Shemza, National College of Arts, Lahore and Pakistan National College of Arts, Rawalpindi
1997
Reyahn King, Anwar Shemza, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham
1985
Peter Burnhill and Mary Shemza, Shemza: Roots, Indus Gallery, Karachi and Alhamra Art Centre, Lahore
1966
Jock Kinneir, A J Shemza, Commonwealth Institute, London
1963
Anwar Jalal Shemza, A J Shemza: Drawings and Paintings 1957–1963, Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, Durham
1960
W G Archer, Shemza: Paintings, Gallery One, London
G M Butcher, Shemza: Paintings, Drawings & Etchings, Pakistan National Council of the Arts, Lahore
1959
Andrew Forge, Drawings and Paintings, A J Shemza, New Vision Centre, London
1956
Anna Molka Ahmed, Paintings by Anwar Jalal Shemza, University of the Punjab, Lahore
Selected group exhibition catalogues
2014
Jessica Morgan (ed), The 10th Gwangju Biennale: Burning Down the House, Damiani, Bologna
Camilla H Chaudhary and Paula Sengupta (ed), Trajectories: 19th–21st Century Printmaking from India and Pakistan, Sharjah Museum of Art, Sharjah
2012
Lizzie Carey-Thomas (ed), Migrations: Journeys into British Art, Tate Publishing, London
2011
Anita Dawood (ed), Drawn from Life, Green Cardamom, London
2000
Timothy Wilcox, Pakistan: Another Vision, 50 Years of Painting in Pakistan, Asia House and the Islamic World, London
1999
Ralph Siwa, An Exhibition of Mixed Media Work by Anwar Shemza and Mary Shemza, Chigwell School, Chigwell
1989
Rasheed Araeen, The Other Story: Afro-Asian Artists in Post-War Britain, Hayward Publishing, London
1987
Maurice Barnes, Anwar and Mary Shemza, Playhouse Gallery, Canberra
1969
Anwar Jalal Shemza, A J Shemza and R Silvester, Paintings, Prints, Enamels and Reliefs, Commonwealth Institute, Edinburgh
1966
Lionel Lambourne, Leicester University Arts Festival, University of Leicester, Leicester
1965
Kenneth Coutts-Smith, Second Commonwealth Biennial of Abstract Art, Commonwealth Institute, London
1955
Hamid Jalal, Moyene, Imam, Shemza: Lahore Art Circle, United States Information Center, Murree
1954
Jalal Ud Din Ahmed, A J Shemza, S. Safdar: An Exhibition of Paintings Under the Auspices of the United States Exhibition Center, Lahore Arts Circle, Lahore
Selected anthologies
2014
Eddie Chambers, Black Artists in British Art, I B Tauris, London
Katharine Stout, Contemporary Drawing: From the 1960s to Now, Tate Publishing, London
2012
Susan Sinclair, Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World, Brill, London
2010
Barbara Schmitz (ed), Lahore: Paintings, Murals, and Calligraphy, Marg Publications, National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai
2008
Khursheed Kamal Aziz, The Coffee House of Lahore: A Memoir 1942–57, Sang-e-Meel Publications, Lahore
2006
Shafi Aqil, Char jadid musavvir: Ahmad Parvez, Sayyid Ali Imam, Anwar Jalal Shemza, Qutub Shaikh, Academy Bazyafat, Karachi
Nasreen Ali and S Sayyid (ed), A Postcolonial People: South Asians in Britain, Hurst, London
2002
Ian Grosvenor (ed), Making Connections: Birmingham Black International History, Black Pasts Birmingham Futures Group, Birmingham
1996
Ijaz Ul Hassan, Painting in Pakistan, Ferozsons, Lahore
1994
Annemarie Schimmel, The Mystery of Numbers, Oxford University Press, Oxford
1992
Marcella Nesom Sirhandi, Contemporary Painting in Pakistan, Ferozsons, Lahore
1987
Zulfiqar Tabish, Mah-i Nau: chalis salah makhzan 2, Idarah-i Matbuat-i Pakistan, Lahore
1974
Hilman von Halem, Calligraphy in Modern Art, Goethe-Institut, Karachi
Selected articles and reviews
2016
Jumabhoy, Zehra,, 'Anwar Jalal Shemza', Art Forum, March Edition.
Salwat, Ali, 'REVIEW:Art on the margins:Anwar Jalal Shemza,' Dawn Newspaper, January.
2015
Shemza, Aphra, 'Aphra Shemza on the life and work of Anwar Shemza', Tate Etc. Autumn Edition.
2009
Salwat Ali, ‘Revisiting Shemza’, Dawn, 25 October Ananya Jahanara Kabir, ‘Hieroglyphs and Broken Links: Remediated Script and Partition Effects
in Pakistan’, Cultural and Social History 6, no.4, pp.485–506
2008
Rasheed Araeen, ‘Modernity, Art History and the Crisis of Art Today’, Third Text, vol.22, 2 March, pp.128–30
2006
Stuart Hall, ‘Black Diaspora Artists in Britain: Three “Moments” in Post-War History’, History Workshop Journal, vol.61, no.1, pp.15–16
Ijaz Ul Hassan, ‘The Way it Was: Cutty Patang’, Daily Times, 15 March
1998
John Holt and Laura Turney, ‘Anwar Jalal Shemza: A Search for the Significant’, Third Text, no.42, spring, pp.104–08
1989
Mary Shemza, ‘Anwar Jalal Shemza: A Search for Cultural Identity’, Third Text, no.8/9, autumn– winter, pp.65–78
1986
S Amjad Ali, ‘Forty Years of Art in Pakistan’, Arts & the Islamic World, vol.4, no.2, pp.50–59
1985
Sairah Irshad, ‘Roots: An Artist Comes Home’, The Herald, November
Ajaz Anwar, ‘Red-tape Laurels for Shemza’, Pakistan Times, 1 November
Syed Amjad Ali, ‘Searching for One’s Roots’, Dawn, 18 October
Kaleem Omar, ‘A Moveable Feast’, The Star, 17 October
Ijaz Ul Hassan, ‘Elements of Nostalgia’, The Star, 18 April
Miriam Habib, ‘Anwar Jalal Shemza: A Profile’, The Muslim, 8 February
1961
G M Butcher, ‘Shemza: Years in London’, Contemporary Arts in Pakistan 2, no.2, summer
John Terry, ‘Art Gallery for Rawalpindi’, Contemporary Arts in Pakistan 2, no.3, autumn
1960
W E Johnson, ‘Shemza’s Art’, The Times, 28 April
R M Douglas, ‘Pakistani Artists Working in London’, Contemporary Arts in Pakistan 1, no.3/4, March–April, p.2
1958
Dennis Duerdan, ‘Contrasts: Woodstock Gallery’, Art News and Reviews 10, no.22, 22 November
Fiction by the artist
Novels and plays published in Urdu under the name of Anwar Jalal
1958
Zamin Aasman, Idara-i Nau, Lahore
1957
Sotay Jagtay, Book Land, Lahore
1956
Akela Aadmi, Malik Sons, Lahore
1955
Zard Patta, Maktaba-i Jadeed, Lahore
1954
Qissa Kahani, Urdu Markaz, Lahore
1953
Jinias, Anarkali Kitab Ghar, Lahore
Selected solo exhibition catalogues
2014
Amna Malik, Anwar Jalal Shemza, Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai
2010
Rachel Garfield, Perspectives 2, Green Cardamom, London
2009
Iftikhar Dadi, Perspectives 1, Green Cardamom, London
2006
Miriam Habib, Anwar Jalal Shemza, National College of Arts, Lahore and Pakistan National College of Arts, Rawalpindi
1997
Reyahn King, Anwar Shemza, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham
1985
Peter Burnhill and Mary Shemza, Shemza: Roots, Indus Gallery, Karachi and Alhamra Art Centre, Lahore
1966
Jock Kinneir, A J Shemza, Commonwealth Institute, London
1963
Anwar Jalal Shemza, A J Shemza: Drawings and Paintings 1957–1963, Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, Durham
1960
W G Archer, Shemza: Paintings, Gallery One, London
G M Butcher, Shemza: Paintings, Drawings & Etchings, Pakistan National Council of the Arts, Lahore
1959
Andrew Forge, Drawings and Paintings, A J Shemza, New Vision Centre, London
1956
Anna Molka Ahmed, Paintings by Anwar Jalal Shemza, University of the Punjab, Lahore
Selected group exhibition catalogues
2014
Jessica Morgan (ed), The 10th Gwangju Biennale: Burning Down the House, Damiani, Bologna
Camilla H Chaudhary and Paula Sengupta (ed), Trajectories: 19th–21st Century Printmaking from India and Pakistan, Sharjah Museum of Art, Sharjah
2012
Lizzie Carey-Thomas (ed), Migrations: Journeys into British Art, Tate Publishing, London
2011
Anita Dawood (ed), Drawn from Life, Green Cardamom, London
2000
Timothy Wilcox, Pakistan: Another Vision, 50 Years of Painting in Pakistan, Asia House and the Islamic World, London
1999
Ralph Siwa, An Exhibition of Mixed Media Work by Anwar Shemza and Mary Shemza, Chigwell School, Chigwell
1989
Rasheed Araeen, The Other Story: Afro-Asian Artists in Post-War Britain, Hayward Publishing, London
1987
Maurice Barnes, Anwar and Mary Shemza, Playhouse Gallery, Canberra
1969
Anwar Jalal Shemza, A J Shemza and R Silvester, Paintings, Prints, Enamels and Reliefs, Commonwealth Institute, Edinburgh
1966
Lionel Lambourne, Leicester University Arts Festival, University of Leicester, Leicester
1965
Kenneth Coutts-Smith, Second Commonwealth Biennial of Abstract Art, Commonwealth Institute, London
1955
Hamid Jalal, Moyene, Imam, Shemza: Lahore Art Circle, United States Information Center, Murree
1954
Jalal Ud Din Ahmed, A J Shemza, S. Safdar: An Exhibition of Paintings Under the Auspices of the United States Exhibition Center, Lahore Arts Circle, Lahore
Selected anthologies
2014
Eddie Chambers, Black Artists in British Art, I B Tauris, London
Katharine Stout, Contemporary Drawing: From the 1960s to Now, Tate Publishing, London
2012
Susan Sinclair, Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World, Brill, London
2010
Barbara Schmitz (ed), Lahore: Paintings, Murals, and Calligraphy, Marg Publications, National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai
2008
Khursheed Kamal Aziz, The Coffee House of Lahore: A Memoir 1942–57, Sang-e-Meel Publications, Lahore
2006
Shafi Aqil, Char jadid musavvir: Ahmad Parvez, Sayyid Ali Imam, Anwar Jalal Shemza, Qutub Shaikh, Academy Bazyafat, Karachi
Nasreen Ali and S Sayyid (ed), A Postcolonial People: South Asians in Britain, Hurst, London
2002
Ian Grosvenor (ed), Making Connections: Birmingham Black International History, Black Pasts Birmingham Futures Group, Birmingham
1996
Ijaz Ul Hassan, Painting in Pakistan, Ferozsons, Lahore
1994
Annemarie Schimmel, The Mystery of Numbers, Oxford University Press, Oxford
1992
Marcella Nesom Sirhandi, Contemporary Painting in Pakistan, Ferozsons, Lahore
1987
Zulfiqar Tabish, Mah-i Nau: chalis salah makhzan 2, Idarah-i Matbuat-i Pakistan, Lahore
1974
Hilman von Halem, Calligraphy in Modern Art, Goethe-Institut, Karachi
Selected articles and reviews
2016
Jumabhoy, Zehra,, 'Anwar Jalal Shemza', Art Forum, March Edition.
Salwat, Ali, 'REVIEW:Art on the margins:Anwar Jalal Shemza,' Dawn Newspaper, January.
2015
Shemza, Aphra, 'Aphra Shemza on the life and work of Anwar Shemza', Tate Etc. Autumn Edition.
2009
Salwat Ali, ‘Revisiting Shemza’, Dawn, 25 October Ananya Jahanara Kabir, ‘Hieroglyphs and Broken Links: Remediated Script and Partition Effects
in Pakistan’, Cultural and Social History 6, no.4, pp.485–506
2008
Rasheed Araeen, ‘Modernity, Art History and the Crisis of Art Today’, Third Text, vol.22, 2 March, pp.128–30
2006
Stuart Hall, ‘Black Diaspora Artists in Britain: Three “Moments” in Post-War History’, History Workshop Journal, vol.61, no.1, pp.15–16
Ijaz Ul Hassan, ‘The Way it Was: Cutty Patang’, Daily Times, 15 March
1998
John Holt and Laura Turney, ‘Anwar Jalal Shemza: A Search for the Significant’, Third Text, no.42, spring, pp.104–08
1989
Mary Shemza, ‘Anwar Jalal Shemza: A Search for Cultural Identity’, Third Text, no.8/9, autumn– winter, pp.65–78
1986
S Amjad Ali, ‘Forty Years of Art in Pakistan’, Arts & the Islamic World, vol.4, no.2, pp.50–59
1985
Sairah Irshad, ‘Roots: An Artist Comes Home’, The Herald, November
Ajaz Anwar, ‘Red-tape Laurels for Shemza’, Pakistan Times, 1 November
Syed Amjad Ali, ‘Searching for One’s Roots’, Dawn, 18 October
Kaleem Omar, ‘A Moveable Feast’, The Star, 17 October
Ijaz Ul Hassan, ‘Elements of Nostalgia’, The Star, 18 April
Miriam Habib, ‘Anwar Jalal Shemza: A Profile’, The Muslim, 8 February
1961
G M Butcher, ‘Shemza: Years in London’, Contemporary Arts in Pakistan 2, no.2, summer
John Terry, ‘Art Gallery for Rawalpindi’, Contemporary Arts in Pakistan 2, no.3, autumn
1960
W E Johnson, ‘Shemza’s Art’, The Times, 28 April
R M Douglas, ‘Pakistani Artists Working in London’, Contemporary Arts in Pakistan 1, no.3/4, March–April, p.2
1958
Dennis Duerdan, ‘Contrasts: Woodstock Gallery’, Art News and Reviews 10, no.22, 22 November
Fiction by the artist
Novels and plays published in Urdu under the name of Anwar Jalal
1958
Zamin Aasman, Idara-i Nau, Lahore
1957
Sotay Jagtay, Book Land, Lahore
1956
Akela Aadmi, Malik Sons, Lahore
1955
Zard Patta, Maktaba-i Jadeed, Lahore
1954
Qissa Kahani, Urdu Markaz, Lahore
1953
Jinias, Anarkali Kitab Ghar, Lahore