Naiza Khan-A Pakistani Artist.

Naiza Khan was born in Bahawalpur, in the Punjabi region of Pakistan in 1968. From 1986-87, she studied at the Wimbledon School of Art, in the U.K., then went on to receive her Bachelor of Fine Arts in printmaking and painting from the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at the University of Oxford. In the last decade she has shown work in group exhibitions like Art Dubai, the Pulse Art Fair, in Miami, the Cairo Biennial, the inaugural exhibition at the National Art Gallery, in Islamabad, at the National Gallery of Modern Art, in Mumbai, and in Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2016), the Colombo Art Biennale (2016) and the Shanghai Biennale (2012), as well as in exhibitions, such as Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan, Asia Society, New York, USA (2009); Art Decoding Violence, XV Biennale Donna, Ferrara, Italy (2012); Desperately Seeking Paradise, Art Dubai, UAE (2008); Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain (2010); and the Cairo Biennale, Cairo, Egypt (2010) Berlin. She lives and works in Karachi, Pakistan.Christie's, Mumbai.

This artist has been selected for residencies at Gasworks, London, UK, and at the Rybon Art Center, Tehran, Iran. As a founding member and long-time coordinator of the Vasl Artists’ Collective in Karachi, Naiza Khan has worked to promote art in the city, and participated in a series of innovative art projects in partnership with other workshops in the region, such as the Khoj International Artists’ Association, New Delhi, India; the Britto Arts Trust, Dhaka, Bangladesh; the Sutra Art Foundation, Kathmandu, Nepal; and the Theertha International Artists Collective, Colombo, Sri Lanka. In addition, she has organized three exhibitions of Pakistani contemporary art, including The Rising Tide: New Directions in Art from Pakistan, 1990–2010 at the Mohatta Palace Museum, Karachi.

In 2013, Naiza Khan had her first major retrospective at an American institution: Karachi Elegies at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. The same year, she received the Prince Claus Award presented by the Dutch Prince Claus Fund in recognition of her exceptional work and initiatives in the fields of art and culture.

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