Sadaf Naeem

Lives and works in Lahore, Pakistan. After completing BFA with honors in 2001 from National College of Arts Lahore, assisted teaching at Rm Naeem drawing Studio. Taught painting at Kinnaird College for women, Lahore.Lecturer at Pakistan Institute of Fashion & Design till 2011.Assisted art counseling program at Central model school, Shaikhopura, Pakistan and Stain Glass technique workshop at Hamza Foundation , Lahore. Conducted basic drawing workshop for children in 2011 at Rm Naeem Drawing Studio. Coordinator of 2nd studio Rm Residency International in 2010.
Participated in Artist camp at Habarana, George kyet foundation Colombo Sri lanka in 2003. Invited for the exhibition ‘Euphonic palate; organized by Nitanjily art gallery, Delhi at Alliance Françoise and in Mumbai, India in 2006.Did Solo exhibition ‘unspoken’ at Ejaz Galleries
And participated in national and international (London, India and Korea, Srilanka, Mascot) group shows.

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Masood A Khan

He was born in Kushtia, Bangladesh in 1959. He is a self-taught artist and have shown cased his works extensively within Pakistan and abroad, such as USA (Honolulu), Dubai, UK and New Zealand. He has recently received the first prize in the Chianciano,Italy, Biennale(European confederation of art critic award/works on paper).His last show was in koel,karachi,20th sept,2012.
Hailing from a South Indian family, He grew up in East Pakistan in a small town called KUSHTIA near north of Bengal. After Dhaka fall my family was confined to a concentration camp as prisoner of war in Allahabad as my father was in Pak Army at that time.He completed his education in Karachi with a formal training of art in a local art institution.His profession Banking, fortunately provides him a stable, economic plat form and enable him to devote his time to art. Over this last decade he has externalized his outrage at the hypocrisy – religious, Social, economics – that cloaks and disguises our true intentions

Khadim Ali

Khadim Ali lives in Sydney and works in Sydney, Quetta and Kabul. The threads in his miniature paintings draw on classical literary narrative and poetics to contend with contemporary political themes of loss, regeneration and resistance. He is an Afghan Hazara born in Quetta, Pakistan with family links to the cities of Bamiyan and Ghazni. He trained in miniature painting at the National College of Arts, Lahore and in the Persian miniature tradition in Tehran, Iran. Khadim Ali’s beautifully crafted and complex images have featured in the Australian exhibitions: Asia Pacific Triennale (2006) and Contemporary Miniatures (both Queensland Art Gallery and touring), and the 2011-2012 Blake Prize Touring Exhibition (highly commended.) His international exhibitions include East West Divan, Venice Biennale 2009 and Documenta13, Kassel, Germany 2012. Khadim Ali has curated several exhibitions on contemporary Afghan art.

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Huma Mulji

Huma Mulji was born in Karachi, Pakistan, in 1970, and completed her Bachelors in Fine Art from the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture in 1995. Mulji’s participation in recent selected exhibitions includes in 2008 Farewell to Post Colonialism, Third Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, China; Desperately Seeking Paradise, Pakistan Pavilion, ART DUBAI, UAE and Arabian Delight, Rohtas Gallery, Lahore. Huma Mulji’s work has moved more and more towards looking at the absurdities of a post-colonial society in transition, taking on board the visual and cultural overlaps of language, image and taste, that create the most fantastic collisions. She describes the time we live in as moving at a remarkable speed and in regard to Pakistan Mulji refers to the experience of ‘living 200 years in the past and 30 years in the future all at once’. She is interested in looking at this phenomenon with humor, to recognize the irony of it, formally and conceptually.

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Fatima Zahra Hassan

Zahra is a visual artist, educator, researcher and an occassional writer. Initially trained in Indian, Mughal and Persian Painting techniques. Studied Visual Islamic and Traditional Arts. Fatima Zahra Hassan takes us along on a contemplative journey to the sublime ‘imaginal world’ embedded in the Sufi tradition. Her medium of guidance is the two-dimensional space of Indo-Persian miniatures, a classical idiom occasionally blended by her with modern vocabulary. All her inspiration comes from the aura of mystical poetry and music of Islam.

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Saira Wasim

Saira Wasim born in 1975 in Pakistan.Wasim went to National College of Arts (in Lahore), from where she graduated with a Bachelors in Fine Arts with focus in miniature painting in 1999. Drawing on her studies of traditional Mughal miniature painting in Pakistan, Saira Wasim paints Persian miniatures that address issues of power, politics, and globalization. In Ronald McDonald Comes to Your Town (2009), the familiar McDonald’s clown carries the American flag while awkwardly riding the back of a floating deity. “I use the miniatures to explore social and political issues that divide the modern world,” Wasim explains. “It pleads for social justice, respect, and tolerance through the use of caricature and satire.” Wasim’s art has been showcased in a number of premiere museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, and Asian Art Museum.

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Ayaz Hussain Jokhio

Born in Mehrabpur Sindh, Pakistan in 1978. Currently lives and works in Lahore and Karachi. Obtained BFA from National College of Arts Lahore in 2001. Chosen as the best contemporary poet by the Sindhi Literary Society in 1999. In 2004, directed a short film that was later selected for the 4th Kara Film Festival in Karachi. Artist-in-residence at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany from 2004-2005.

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Shahzia Sikander

Shahzia Sikander was born in 1969 in Lahore, Pakistan. Educated as an undergraduate at the National College of Arts in Lahore, she received her MFA in 1995 from the Rhode Island School of Design. Sikander specializes in Indian and Persian miniature painting, a traditional style that is both highly stylized and disciplined. While becoming an expert in this technique-driven, often impersonal art form, she imbued it with a personal context and history, blending the Eastern focus on precision and methodology with a Western emphasis on creative, subjective expression.

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Ghulam Mustafa

Mustafa is acknowledged for his spontaneity and expertise in lifting whatever arrests his attention. His works of the old Lahore city vividly capture shifting light and shadows, the textures and patina left on alley walls by the passage of time and the hubbub of streets and the ding of everyday life.Mustafa did his National diploma in Fine Arts from National College of Arts, Lahore,in 1974(Ist Division).He also had Certificate Of Merit in Stage Technique Workshop by Korean Experts in 1977.Mustafa had served 28 years of his life to the Punjab Arts Council. Ghulam Mustafa is a world renowned Artist who has done several exhibitions world wide including USA, China, Japan, U.K, Dubai, India etc. He is known as master of Landscape. His art is a research topic in top universities like NCA.

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