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- Asim Butt was born on March 26, 1978 in Karachi, Pakistan. He was an actor, known for Dealt (1999). He died on January 15, 2010 in Karachi, Pakistan.
- He began a Ph.D. in History at University of California, Davis (UC Davis) in California, United States of America, but left the course after two years, when he participated in a group show mounted at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery in March 2002 with Rigo '02 and LYRIC.
- He started painting at an early age, but at his parents' insistence, went to college, where he studied Social Sciences from the Lahore University of Management Sciences.
- He was a member of the Stuckism International art movement and founder of The Karachi Stuckists.
- Asim Butt was a Pakistani painter and sculptor, with an interest in graffiti and printmaking.
- He spoke out against the imposition of emergency regulations in November 2007 by starting an "art protest" movement-spray-stencilling graffiti of an "eject" symbol of a red triangle over a red rectangle, an image which has now become widespread in Karachi. He was caught on two occasions and claimed it was school art project work. He says that people's dignity has been overtaken by the predominant social and economic power of the military.
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