The Sadequain Foundation USA is a not-for-profit organization registered in California, USA in 2007. It is dedicated to discover, preserve, and promote the art of Sadequain.
The Foundation has executed exhaustive research to locate hundred’s of previously unaccounted and undocumented pieces of Sadequain’s artwork in places as far flung as Hong Kong, Singapore, India, Middle East, Austria, Switzerland, France, England, USA, Canada, and many other places.
The Foundation is poised to publish a 12 volume catalog of Sadequain’s work, comprising of over 1,000 pages of text and over 2,000 selective paintings, murals, drawings, and calligraphies.
It holds regular exhibitions of Sadequain’s works, and conducts seminars at museums and universities to raise awareness about his prodigious palette.
The Foundation supports research on Sadequain’s life and work, and provides authentication of his works supported by its history, analyses, and provenance.
Dr. Salman Ahmad is an electrical engineer by profession. He spent more than thirty years working on nuclear missile technology in senior executive positions at LTV Corporation and General Dynamics in the United States.
In 1999 he founded an electronics communications company, Santel Corporation, in Silicon Valley in the Bay Area, which developed high speed communication devices. He retired from his profession in 2007 to establish SADEQUAIN Foundation USA in San Diego, California. The Foundation’s goal is to discover, preserve, and promote the art and poetry of Sadequain.
Since 2007, the Foundation has held exhibitions of Sadequain’s artwork at Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto, Canada, San Diego Museum of Art in California, Pakistan Embassy in Washington DC, Pakistan’s Consulate in Toronto, Canada, at the annual convention of the Aligarh Muslim University Alumni Association in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, at the annual convention of the Association of Pakistani Physicians of North America (APPNA) in Washington DC, Australian High Commission in Islamabad, and many more venues.