{{Short description|Indian street artist and designer (1982–2024)}} {{About|Indian artist and designer|the British playwright and screenwriter|Hanif Kureishi}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}} {{Infobox artist | name = Hanif Kureshi | birth_date = {{birth date|1982|10|12|df=y}} | birth_place = Palitana, Gujarat, India | death_date = {{death date and age|2024|09|22|1982|10|12|df=y}} | death_place = Goa, India | known_for = Street typography<br />St+art India Foundation<br />Guerrilla Art & Design | notable_works = HandpaintedType<br />''Time Changes Everything'' | alma_mater = Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda | image = Hanif Kureshi 2023.png | image_size = 180px | caption = Kureshi in 2023 | alt = Half-length portrait of Kureshi speaking in front of a red building and some trees | style = Street art }}
'''Hanif Kureshi ''' (12 October 1982 – 22 September 2024), also known by the graffiti name ''Daku'', was an Indian artist, designer, and advertising professional. Kureshi was a pioneering figure in India's street art movement, helping to transform urban spaces into public canvases and bringing art out of the museums to the wider public in India.
Kureshi's early childhood experiences with hand-painted signage led to his lifelong interest in typography and street art, with his first apprenticeship with local painters creating hand-painted license plates. He studied art at Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, later pursuing a career in advertising. He started working as a graffiti artist in the late 2000s, moving on to large-scale street art and murals, often collaborating with artists from around the world.
After seeing the impact of modern digital design and printing replacing the local artists of his youth, he started the ''HandpaintedType'' project as an attempt to preserve typographic practices and styles unique to Indian street sign painters and provide them with an income stream. Kureshi went on to co-found the St+art India Foundation to help popularise street art throughout the country, with notable work produced in the Lodhi Art District in Delhi, the Sassoon Dock art project in Mumbai, and the Bangalore Metro.
== Early life == Kureshi was born on 12 October 1982<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Shaikh |first=Sadaf |date=24 September 2024 |title=Remembering Hanif Kureshi, the artist who breathed life into Mumbai's streets |url=https://www.vogue.in/content/remembering-hanif-kureshi-the-artist-who-breathed-life-into-mumbais-streets |access-date=25 September 2024 |website=Vogue India |language=en-IN |archive-date=24 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240924222411/https://www.vogue.in/content/remembering-hanif-kureshi-the-artist-who-breathed-life-into-mumbais-streets |url-status=live }}</ref> in Palitana, a town in the Bhavnagar district of Gujarat.<ref name="lm">{{Cite news |last=Ojha |first=Abhilasha |date=26 September 2024 |title=Hanif Kureshi - Bringing Art Out into the Open |url=https://www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/art-and-culture/hanif-kureshi-obituary-legacy-bringing-art-out-into-the-streets-daku-typography-11727320361957.html |access-date=30 September 2024 |archive-date=27 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240927115304/https://www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/art-and-culture/hanif-kureshi-obituary-legacy-bringing-art-out-into-the-streets-daku-typography-11727320361957.html |url-status=live }}</ref> He first began working with street painters during his school vacations.<ref name="hpt">Kureshi, Hanif (2019). [https://web.archive.org/web/20190831231536/https://handpaintedtype.com/#contact "Contribute"]. HandPaintedType.</ref> He apprenticed with local painters who specialised in hand-painted licence plates.<ref name="ted">Kureshi, Hanif (4 October 2019). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9mvZlv5-x8 "Reclaiming Streets, One Wall at a Time"]. TEDxIITHyderabad. Retrieved 14 November 2024.</ref> Encouraged by his father, he decided to become an artist himself,<ref name="hpt"/> graduating with a degree in arts from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |last=Drishya |date=24 September 2024 |title=A One-Man Revolution: The Artistic Legacy Of The Late Hanif Kureshi |url=https://homegrown.co.in/homegrown-creators/a-one-man-revolution-the-artistic-legacy-of-the-late-hanif-kureshi |access-date=26 September 2024 |website=Homegrown |language=en |archive-date=25 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240925014511/https://homegrown.co.in/homegrown-creators/a-one-man-revolution-the-artistic-legacy-of-the-late-hanif-kureshi |url-status=live }} *{{Cite web |date=2021-03-23 |title=Graffiti artist Daku's latest mural is a take on Chennai's water crisis |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art-and-culture/graffiti-artist-dakus-latest-mural-a-take-on-chennais-water-crisis-7241221/ |access-date=2024-09-28 |website=The Indian Express |language=en |archive-date=21 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220821081551/https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art-and-culture/graffiti-artist-dakus-latest-mural-a-take-on-chennais-water-crisis-7241221/ |url-status=live }} *{{Cite web |date=24 September 2024 |title=Hanif Kureshi's art created a bridge between the street and the people |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/editorials/hanif-kureshis-art-created-a-bridge-between-the-street-and-the-people-9584626/ |access-date=26 September 2024 |website=The Indian Express |language=en |archive-date=26 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240926140717/https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/editorials/hanif-kureshis-art-created-a-bridge-between-the-street-and-the-people-9584626/ |url-status=live }} *{{Cite web |title=Hanif Kureshi (1982–2024): A Trailblazer In The Indian Public Art Movement |url=https://www.designpataki.com/dp-cult/hanif-kureshi-1982-2024-a-trailblazer-in-the-indian-public-art-movement/ |access-date=26 September 2024 |website=Design Pataki |language=en |archive-date=26 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240926031434/https://www.designpataki.com/dp-cult/hanif-kureshi-1982-2024-a-trailblazer-in-the-indian-public-art-movement/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
== Career == Kureshi began his professional career in advertising, starting with the advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather in 2003 where he went on to become a senior art director.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Former adman and street art pioneer Hanif Kureshi passes away |url=https://www.afaqs.com/obituary/former-adman-and-street-art-pioneer-hanif-kureshi-passes-away-7091082 |access-date=25 September 2024 |website=www.afaqs.com |language=en |archive-date=25 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240925064700/https://www.afaqs.com/obituary/former-adman-and-street-art-pioneer-hanif-kureshi-passes-away-7091082 |url-status=live }}</ref> He later moved to the advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy in 2008 where he became a senior creative. That same year, he first began working as a graffiti artist on the streets<ref name="sk1">Khurana, Sanchita (4 October 2024). "Death of a Daku: How Hanif Kureshi radically altered the Indian street". ''Frontline''. {{ISSN|0970-1710}}.</ref> using the pseudonym ''Daku'' ({{Translation|Bandit}}).<ref name=":5" /> In 2011, while still at the agency,<ref name="ted"/> Kureshi started the ''HandpaintedType'' project<ref name=":4">{{Cite news |last=S |first=Gowri |date=25 September 2024 |title=Tribute {{!}} Remembering visionary artist Hanif Kureshi who took art to India's streets |url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/art/tribute-remembering-visionary-artist-hanif-kureshi-who-took-art-to-indias-streets/article68681498.ece |access-date=26 September 2024 |work=The Hindu |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}} *{{Cite web |title=HandpaintedType |url=https://theindexproject.org/award/nominees/1102 |access-date=26 September 2024 |website=theindexproject.org |language=en |archive-date=27 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240927080037/https://theindexproject.org/award/nominees/1102 |url-status=live }}</ref> as an attempt to preserve the typographic practices and styles of Indian street sign painters for future generations before they disappeared.{{refn|name=kureshi|group=note|[https://web.archive.org/web/20190831231536/https://handpaintedtype.com/#contribute Kureshi 2011]: "HandpaintedType is a project that is dedicated to preserving the typographic practice of street painters around India. These painters, with the advent of local DTP (Desktop Publishers) shops, are rapidly going out of business with many of them switching to the quicker, cheaper but uglier vinyls. Many painters have given up their practice altogether. The project involves documenting the typefaces of road side painters across India and digitizing it so that it serves as a resource for present and future generation...I felt that I should do something...before painters disappear from streets. I also thought it important to preserve this art form for future generations to understand and hopefully, appreciate."}}
''HandpaintedType'' documented the typefaces of at least 18 roadside painters in India, recording brief biographical data and producing at least two short documentary videos.<ref>Kureshi, Hanif (2011). [https://web.archive.org/web/20190831231536/https://handpaintedtype.com/ "Painters"]. ''HandpaintedType''. *Kureshi, Hanif (2011). [https://vimeo.com/42199150 "Painter Shabbu"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160917203302/https://vimeo.com/42199150 |date=17 September 2016 }}. ''Vimeo''. Retrieved 13 November 2024. *Kureshi, Hanif (2011). [https://vimeo.com/22240175 "Painter Kureshi"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240118063620/http://vimeo.com/22240175 |date=18 January 2024 }}. ''Vimeo''. Retrieved 13 November 2024.</ref> Kureshi released an initial free, digitised street font to the public based on the project, followed by a later commercial release,<ref name="rey">Reynolds, Dan (September 25, 2011). [https://ilovetypography.com/2011/09/25/atypi-2011-reykjavik/ "ATypI 2011 Reykjavík"]. ''I Love Typography''. Retrieved 13 November 2024.</ref> whose proceeds were intended to provide a source of revenue for the traditional sign painters being displaced by digital printing.<ref name="cnn">Haridasani, Alisha (18 February 2016). [https://www.cnn.com/style/article/street-art-india/index.html "How Delhi’s streets are being transformed one spray can at a time"]. CNN. Retrieved 14 November 2024.</ref> In 2011, Kureshi made several presentations to professional organisations about the data they collected, including one at the Typography Day conference in Ahmedabad followed by a larger, formal presentation at the 2011 ATypI typography conference in Reykjavík.<ref name="rey"/> Following his stint at Wieden+Kennedy, Kureshi left the advertising world to focus on street art and sign painting.<ref name="lm"/>
=== St+art India Foundation === In 2013, Kureshi co-founded the St+art India Foundation<ref>{{Cite web |title=St+art India Foundation |url=https://www.festivalsfromindia.com/organiser/start-india-foundation/ |access-date=2025-04-16 |website=Festivals From India |language=en-US}}</ref> along with Giulia Ambrogi, Thanish Thomas, Akshat Nauriyal, and investor Rajeev Bahl.<ref name="sk1"/> The foundation, whose name is a combination of "Street" and "Art" (pronounced "Start"),<ref name="ted"/> is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to promoting street art across India. The foundation worked on transforming neighbourhoods through large-scale murals and street art installations.<ref name="ie">{{Cite web |date=3 July 2022 |title=How artwork gave Lodhi Colony fresh lease of life |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/how-artwork-gave-lodhi-colony-fresh-lease-of-life-8005886/ |access-date=26 September 2024 |website=The Indian Express |language=en |archive-date=26 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240926031845/https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/how-artwork-gave-lodhi-colony-fresh-lease-of-life-8005886/ |url-status=live }}</ref> One of the foundation's notable projects was the Lodhi Art District in Delhi, one of India's first open-air public art districts, which features over 60 murals created by national and international artists.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=24 September 2024 |title=Painting on the wall: Street artist Hanif Kureshi remembered for making art democratic |url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/art/painting-on-the-wall-street-artist-hanif-kureshi-remembered-for-making-art-democratic/article68679276.ece |access-date=25 September 2024 |work=The Hindu |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X |archive-date=25 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240925013129/https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/art/painting-on-the-wall-street-artist-hanif-kureshi-remembered-for-making-art-democratic/article68679276.ece |url-status=live }}</ref> The foundation went on to start seven art districts across the country; four are currently still active: Lodhi, Mahim in Mumbai, Nochi in Chennai, and Ukkadam in Coimbatore.<ref name=":0"/>
=== Artistic contributions === Kureshi's art blended traditional Indian aesthetics with modern public art practices.<ref name=":0" /> His murals often incorporated elements of Indian culture, including typographic works that played with regional languages and local traditions. His large-scale public art pieces can be seen in various Indian cities, including murals at the Bangalore Metro, the Sassoon Dock art project and the Churchgate railway station in Mumbai, and in the streets of Panaji in Goa.<ref name=":3" /> Some of his works were noted as a commentary on the socio-economic situation in the country including increasing wealth inequality, urban apathy, and an emerging water crisis in the country's major cities.<ref name=":5"/> His early works included stencilled art with provocative messages, often involving political activism.<ref name="dna">{{Cite news |last=Nair|first=Roshni|title=Street art breathes a new life into Mumbai |url=https://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report-street-art-breathes-a-new-life-into-mumbai-2041757 |access-date=2024-09-28 |newspaper=DNA India |language=en |archive-date=16 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181216163449/https://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report-street-art-breathes-a-new-life-into-mumbai-2041757 |url-status=live }}</ref> He addressed topics like moral and cultural policing<ref name=":9">{{Cite news |date=2017-08-04 |last=Praveen|first=Priyanka|title=The dacoit of the art world |newspaper=Deccan Chronicle|url=http://www.deccanchronicle.com/lifestyle/books-and-art/111116/the-dacoit-of-the-art-world.html |access-date=2024-09-28 |archive-date=4 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170804134138/http://www.deccanchronicle.com/lifestyle/books-and-art/111116/the-dacoit-of-the-art-world.html |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> and urban issues involving garbage management.{{refn|name=khurana1|group=note|See Khurana, Sanchita (2024). [https://vernonpress.com/file/24985/f8bb0dd8d96b62f39e2d9cd6bdb2937f/1725538388.pdf "Cast(e)ing a Subversive 'Sensible': The Symbology of Cultural Resistance in Dalit Writing"]. In Tamanna Priya (Ed.) and Amrit Mishra (Ed.) ''Dalits and Dalit Lives in 21st Century India: Towards a New Politics''. Vernon Press. pp. 12-13. {{ISBN|9798881900366}}. {{OCLC|1455329869}}.}}
He collaborated with ''Crew 156'', their founding member JonOne, and other artists such as Bond and Zine.<ref name=":8">{{Cite news |last=Parakala |first=Vangmayi |date=6 May 2016 |title=On 15 May, this art will disappear |url=https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/H4VKicbDZlm32BrZZRCTzN/On-15-May-this-art-will-disappear.html |access-date=30 September 2024 |archive-date=3 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403023119/https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/H4VKicbDZlm32BrZZRCTzN/On-15-May-this-art-will-disappear.html |url-status=live }}</ref> His earlier street work was considered more cynical and pseudonymous with him often using stealth to render graffiti and other street messaging, an approach that he moved away from in the latter part of his career.<ref name=":8" /> This had some calling him the "Banksy of India" referring to the pseudonymous English graffiti artist Banksy.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2014-12-12 |title=India's 'Banksy' behind provocative graffiti |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-30447979 |access-date=2024-09-28 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB |archive-date=1 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230401120407/https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-30447979 |url-status=live }}</ref> In an interview with the BBC as Daku, he stated that he respected Banksy's work but did not find comparisons "flattering" as he felt his work was "separate" and had "a very Indian aesthetic".<ref>Dhar, Govind (27 February 2014). [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-26319164 "Indian street art festival gives a facelift to Delhi"]. BBC News. Retrieved 14 November 2024.</ref>
In some of his art, particularly his time series, Kureshi experiments with light and shadow.<ref name="sk1"/> In ''Time Changes Everything'' (2015–2016), a typographical work created under his ''Daku'' pseudonym in Lodhi Colony, New Delhi, Kureshi plays with the notions of light, shadows, and time, emphasising the ever-changing and short-lived quality of both human life and street art. In the outdoor installation, a series of more than 70 words appears in black on three, forward-facing wall partitions on a building painted white. There is no colour, and the words are not painted with ink.<ref name=":8"/> The design first appears visible at around 9:30{{nbsp}}a.m. when sunlight begins casting shadows through horizontal, parallel sheets of metal facing down.<ref name=":8"/> At that time, various words start appearing on the wall and become most vivid at noon time.<ref name=":8"/> The words describe "time, motion and change", ideas Kureshi returns to in his art. He used SketchUp 3D modelling software and Google Maps to help plan the piece, estimating the Sun's movement to get the shadows just right so that people passing by could read the words.<ref name="cnn2">Majumdar, Roshni (12 May 2016). [https://www.cnn.com/style/article/daku-india-street-art/index.html "Indian street artist Daku reveals graffiti powered by the sun"]. ''CNN''. Retrieved 15 November 2024. *DAKU (2015-12-25/2016-02-28). [https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/time-changes-everything/LwGILxM7-tWwVw ''Time Changes Everything'']. Lodhi Art District. Google Arts & Culture. Retrieved 14 November 2024.</ref> Due to the orientation of the wall, from 15 May to 15 August the wall appears completely blank.<ref name=":8"/>
===Commercial work=== In 2019, Kureshi was creative director of two art projects, a mural project illustrated by Dattaraj M. Naik, and an embroidery installation by Johnson Kshetrimayum, both for the first Uniqlo store in India, located at the Ambience Mall, Vasant Kunj in New Delhi.<ref>Lamba, Charu (28 November 2019) "Decoding Strategy for the Indian Market UNIQLO'S". ''IMAGES Business of Fashion''. Retrieved 14 November 2024.</ref>
==Later exhibitions and death== Kureshi's work was exhibited at international art events and venues, including the London Design Biennale, Venice Biennale, Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Triannale Design Museum in Milan.<ref name="aim">Sharma, Kamayani (January 2018). [https://www.artindiamag.com/wp-content/themes/art-india/archives-files/2017/Vol-21-Issue-4/index.html "In Full View"]. ''Art India Magazine ''21 (4). pp. 30-39. {{ISSN|0972-2947}}. *[https://www.artindiamag.com/wp-content/themes/art-india/archives-files/2017/Vol-21-Issue-4/index.html "Contributors"]. ''Art India Magazine ''21 (4). pp. 30-39. p. 20. {{ISSN|0972-2947}}. *[https://www.artindiamag.com/wp-content/themes/art-india/archives-files/2017/Vol-21-Issue-4/index.html "Where's our Banksy?"]. ''Art India Magazine ''21 (4). pp. 30-39. pp. 52-63. {{ISSN|0972-2947}}.</ref> In India, his work appeared at the India Art, Architecture and Design Biennale at the Red Fort in Delhi.<ref name="sin">{{cite news|last=Singh|first=Amrita|title=Remembering Hanif Kureshi, the artist credited with popularising street art in India|url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/10/30/remembering-hanif-kureshi-artist-credited-with-popularising-street-art-india|website=The Art Newspaper|access-date=11 November 2024|archive-date=12 November 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241112234818/https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/10/30/remembering-hanif-kureshi-artist-credited-with-popularising-street-art-india|url-status=live}}</ref> In June 2024, he held a solo exhibition at Wildstyle Gallery in Sweden;<ref name=":6">{{Cite web |date=23 September 2024 |title=Hanif Kureshi, who popularised street art in India's neighbourhoods, passes away at 41 |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art-and-culture/art-to-the-streets-artist-hanif-kureshi-passes-away-9583250/ |access-date=25 September 2024 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref> by that time, he had dealt with lung cancer for a year. He died with the disease in Goa on 22 September 2024 aged 41,<ref name=":0" /> leaving behind a wife Rutva and 5 year old son Bramha.<ref name=":5" />
==Selected works == {{columns-list|colwidth=23em| *''Fuck'' (2011)<ref name="man">Mandal, Soaham (2015). [http://etd.lib.jnu.ac.in/TH25468.pdf ''The Pictures on the Walls: Understanding and Defining Street Art Narratives of Delhi''] (MPhil thesis). Jawaharlal Nehru University.</ref> * ''Time Flies / Time Fades'', Kochi (2012)<ref name=":8" /> *''Stop Pretending'' (2013)<ref name="man"/> *''Stop Promising'' (2013)<ref name="man"/> *''Stop Raping'' (2013)<ref name="man"/> *''Stop Shopping'' (2013)<ref name="man"/> *''Stop Vandalism'' (2013)<ref name="man"/> *''Stop Honking'' (2013)<ref name="man"/> *''Mat Do'' (2013)<ref name="man"/> *''This is Not Street Art'' (2014)<ref name="man"/> *India Art Fair **''This is Commissioned Vandalism'' (2015)<ref name="sk1"/> *WIP: The Street Art Show<ref>[https://artsandculture.google.com/story/_gUBUs6wfsJhKw "#WIP: The Street Art Show"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240615085737/https://artsandculture.google.com/story/_gUBUs6wfsJhKw |date=15 June 2024 }}. Google Arts & Culture. Retrieved 15 November 2024.</ref> **''Breathe'' (2015-2016)<ref>DAKU (2015-12-20/2016-03-10). [https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/breathe/-wGhyr6p1HfGHw ''Breathe'']. Google Arts & Culture. Retrieved 15 November 2024.</ref> * Lodhi Colony, New Delhi<ref name="sw">{{Cite web |last=Mukerji |first=Soumya |title=All the world's a graffiti wall: Hanif Kureshi, saint and bandit of urban Indian street art |url=https://www.stirworld.com/inspire-people-all-the-world-s-a-graffiti-wall-hanif-kureshi-saint-and-bandit-of-urban-indian-street-art |website=Stir World |access-date=27 September 2024 |language=English |archive-date=27 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240927100112/https://www.stirworld.com/inspire-people-all-the-world-s-a-graffiti-wall-hanif-kureshi-saint-and-bandit-of-urban-indian-street-art |url-status=live }}</ref> **''Time Changes Everything'' (2015-2016)<ref name="cnn2"/> **''We Love Dilli'' (2015-2016)<ref>Visualek, Fred and Sowat; Kureshi, Hanif (2015-12-25/2016-02-28). [https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/we-love-delhi-fred-visualek-and-sowat-hanif-kureshi/owGQSTBUH3cKwQ?hl=en ''We Love Delhi''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240218142000/https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/we-love-delhi-fred-visualek-and-sowat-hanif-kureshi/owGQSTBUH3cKwQ?hl=en |date=18 February 2024 }}. Google Arts & Culture. Retrieved 15 November 2024.</ref> * Chakraview, London Design Biennale (2016)<ref>{{Cite web |date=7 September 2016 |title=Chakraview at London Design Biennale |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.in/content/inside-the-chakraview-indias-installation-at-the-london-design-biennale/ |others=Photographer: Vipul Sangoi |website=Architectural Digest India |access-date=27 September 2024 |language=en-IN |archive-date=5 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230605031117/https://www.architecturaldigest.in/content/inside-the-chakraview-indias-installation-at-the-london-design-biennale/ |url-status=live }}</ref> * Sassoon Dock Art Project, Mumbai **''The Idea of Smell'' (2017)<ref name="sw"/> * Swarovski Indian Mela, Austria<ref name="sw"/> **''Life is Beautiful'' (2017)<ref>[https://outsidesuburbia.com/travel/europe/austria/swarovski-crystal-worlds/ "An Indian Summer Festival at Swarovski Crystal Worlds in Austria"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240521164808/https://outsidesuburbia.com/travel/europe/austria/swarovski-crystal-worlds/ |date=21 May 2024 }}. ''Outside Suburbia''. Retrieved November 14, 2024.</ref> * Lodhi Colony, New Delhi<ref name="sw"/> **''This Must Be The Place'' (2019)<ref>Hill, Georgia; Kureshi, Hanif (2019). [https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/georgia-hill-hanif-kureshi-at-lodhi-art-district-georgia-hill-and-hanif-kureshi/nwFZVJs_DrwPag?hl=en ''This Must Be The Place''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240218141938/https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/georgia-hill-hanif-kureshi-at-lodhi-art-district-georgia-hill-and-hanif-kureshi/nwFZVJs_DrwPag?hl=en |date=18 February 2024 }}. Google Arts & Culture. Retrieved 14 November 2024.</ref> * Panjim, Goa<ref>Staugaitis, Larua (January 15, 2019). [https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/01/theory-of-time-by-daku/ "Sunlight Casts Shadows of Phrases Exploring Theories of Time in a Street Art Installation by DAKU"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240214194248/https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/01/theory-of-time-by-daku/ |date=14 February 2024 }}. ''Colossal''. 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== Further reading== * {{Cite news |date=24 September 2024 |title=RIP Hanif Kureshi: Legacy lives on through Delhi's vibrant street art at Lodhi Colony's Art District |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/htcity/htcity-delhi-junction/rip-hanif-kureshi-legacy-lives-on-through-delhis-vibrant-street-art-at-lodhi-colonys-art-district-101727162338913.html |work=Hindustan Times}} *{{Cite web |last=Vasanthan |first=Sobhika |date=14 December 2023 |title=How Indian Artist DAKU Turned The Red Fort Into A Transient Canvas of Light & Shadow |url=https://homegrown.co.in/homegrown-explore/how-indian-artist-daku-turned-the-red-fort-into-a-transient-canvas-of-light-shadow |access-date=26 September 2024 |website=Homegrown |language=en |archive-date=27 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240927052646/https://homegrown.co.in/homegrown-explore/how-indian-artist-daku-turned-the-red-fort-into-a-transient-canvas-of-light-shadow |url-status=live }} *{{Cite web |title=Artistic Visionary Hanif Kureshi Passes Away, Leaving Behind a Vibrant Legacy in Street Art. – Asia Art Council |url=https://asiaartcouncil.com/artistic-visionary-hanif-kureshi-passes-away-leaving-behind-a-vibrant-legacy-in-street-art/ |access-date=26 September 2024 |language=en-US}} *{{Cite web |date=5 October 2021 |title=Know More About Hanif Kureshi – IFP |url=https://ifp.world/creator/hanif-kureshi/ |access-date=27 September 2024 |language=en-US |archive-date=21 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240521214849/https://ifp.world/creator/hanif-kureshi/ |url-status=live }}
== External links == {{commonscat}} ;Videos * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcA72bZwZ9Y Hanif Kureshi: Reclaiming Public Spaces for Art and Social Change] (2023) * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH5zgcHgAR0 Sassoon Dock Art Project] (2018) {{Authority control|qid=Q130349511}}
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