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List Of Pakistani Women Artists
The following list of Pakistani women artists (in alphabetical order by last name) includes artists of various genres, who are notable and are either born in Pakistan, of Pakistani descent or who produce works that are primarily about Pakistan. A *Humaira Abid (active since 2000s), wood artist *Lubna Agha (1949–2012), painter, educator, art director *Zubeida Agha (1922–1997), Modernist painter *Anna Molka Ahmed (1917–1995), painter, educator *Sheherezade Alam (born 1948), ceramist B * Huma Bhabha (born 1962), sculptor * Ambreen Butt (born 1969), Pakistani-American artist J * Mehreen Jabbar (born 1971), television and film director * Misha Japanwala, sculptor and fashion designer *Zehra Laila Javeri (born 1971), painter K *Aisha Khalid (born 1972), contemporary artist L * Laila Khan (Singer) M *Muniba Mazari (born 1987), painter, writer, activist * Huma Mulji (born 1970), sculptor, photographer N *Nigar Nazar (born 1953), Pakistan's first female cartoonist Q *Tazeen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakistanis
Pakistanis ( ur, , translit=Pākistānī Qaum, ) are the citizens and nationals of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. According to the 2017 Pakistani national census, the population of Pakistan stood at over 213 million people, making it the world's fifth-most populous country. The majority of Pakistanis natively speak languages belonging to the Indo-Iranic family ( Indo-Aryan and Iranic subfamilies). Located in South Asia, the country is also the source of a significantly large diaspora, most of whom reside in the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf, with an estimated population of 4.7 million. The second-largest Pakistani diaspora resides throughout both Northwestern Europe and Western Europe, where there are an estimated 2.4 million; over half of this figure reside in the United Kingdom (see British Pakistanis). Ethnic subgroups Having one of the fastest-growing populations in the world, Pakistan's people belong to various ethnic groups, with the overwhelming majority ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tazeen Qayyum
Tazeen Qayyum is a Pakistani-Canadian conceptual artist working in a variety of media including miniature painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, and video. Her work explores issues of identity, immigration, socio-political conflict, and her Muslim identity. Biography Born in Karachi, Pakistan, in 1973, Tazeen Qayyum studied miniature painting at the National College of Art in Lahore, Pakistan, graduating in 1996 with a BFA. As a response to the 9/11 attacks, Qayyum began using the cockroach as a metaphor to connote the loss of life in the subsequent wars connected to the attacks, as well as fear and misunderstanding of other cultures. While the cockroach first appeared as part of her miniature painting practice, it would evolve into sculpture and installation work including ''A Holding Pattern'', a multi-media piece that was installed at Toronto's Pearson International Airport in 2013. Qayyum's more recent circular text pieces are performative based and originate from her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Pakistani Artists
The following is a list of notable Pakistani artists active in Pakistan and abroad: *Abdul Rahim Nagori (1939–2010), painter known for his socio-political themes *Abdur Rahman Chughtai (1899–1975), painter in the Chughtai Style of Art and stamp designer * Ahmad Zoay (1947–2014), painter and sculptor *Ahmed Pervez (1926–1979), painter and winner of the President's Medal for Pride of Performance *Ajaz Anwar (born 1946), painter especially of watercolours *Anna Molka Ahmed (1917–1994), artist and pioneer of fine arts *Anwar Maqsood (born 1940), intellectual, playwright, poet, television host, satirist, humorist, and long time painter * Anwar Shemza (1928–1985), artist, writer, printmaker * Arbab Mohammad Sardar (born 1945), painter and sculptor, pride of performance *Askari Mian Irani (1940–2004), painter * Ayessha Quraishi (born 1970), contemporary artist * Bashir Mirza (1941–2000), painter * Bashir Ahmed (born 1953), miniature painter, sculptor, pioneer bachelor's de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saira Wasim
Saira Wasim is a contemporary artist from Lahore, Pakistan. She currently lives in United States. Wasim uses the miniature style of painting, pioneered by the Persians but extensively used in South Asia, to make primarily political and cultural art. Wasim's art has been shown in a number of museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, and Asian Art Museum. Biography 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. Dawn art critic Ali Adil Khan describes her as part of "magnificent seven" along with Muhammed Imran Qureshi, Tazeen Qayyum, Aisha Khalid, Talha Rathore, Nusra Latif Qureshi, and Reeta Saeed- who brought back miniatures Artistic approach Wasim draws Persian Miniatures to make devastating political commentary. Wasim has stated: "My work uses the contemporary miniature form to explore social and political issues that divide the moder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miniature Art
Miniature art includes paintings, engravings and sculptures that are very small; it has a long history that dates back to prehistory. The portrait miniature is the most common form in recent centuries, and from ancient times, engraved gems, often used as impression seals, and cylinder seals in various materials were very important. For example most surviving examples of figurative art from the Indus Valley civilization and in Minoan art are very small seals. Gothic boxwood miniatures are very small carvings in wood, used for rosary beads and the like. Western paintings in illuminated manuscripts are known as miniatures, even if not very small - this sense of the word in fact has a different derivation, from a Latin word for a reddish pigment. Miniature art has been made for over 2500 years and is prized by collectors. Museums around the world have collections of miniature paintings, drawings, original prints and etchings, and sculpture. Miniature art societies, such as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contemporary Art
Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the second half of the 20th century or in the 21st century. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a dynamic combination of Medium (arts), materials, methods, concepts, and subjects that continue the challenging of boundaries that was already well underway in the 20th century. Diverse and eclectic, contemporary art as a whole is distinguished by the very lack of a uniform, organising principle, ideology, or "-ism". Contemporary art is part of a cultural dialogue that concerns larger contextual frameworks such as personal and cultural identity, family, community, and nationality. In vernacular English, ''modern'' and ''contemporary'' are synonyms, resulting in some conflation and confusion of the terms ''modern art'' and ''contemporary art'' by non-specialists. Scope Some define contemporary art as art produced within "our lifetime," recognising tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sumaira Tazeen
Sumaira Tazeen ( Urdu: سمیرا تزین) is a Canada-based Pakistani artist who specializes in contemporary miniature art. A gold medalist from National College of Arts, Tazeen has presented her work to various influential peronsalities around the world including Queen Elizabeth II (1997), Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf (2006) and Queen Rania of Jordan. Education After early schooling in Hyderabad, Tazeen did her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the National College of Arts (NCA) in Lahore, specializing in miniature painting. At NCA, she received a gold medal for outstanding student and the Haji Mohammad Sharif Award for Miniature Painting. Career Known as a master of traditional gilding technique, Tazeen has conducted various workshops at institutions including the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto and at the Art Gallery of Mississauga. Tazeen's solo exhibitions as well as selected group exhibitions have taken place across the world including New York City, London, Amman, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shamim Nazli
Shamim Nazli ( Punjabi, ur, ), (1940 - November 27, 2010) was a Pakistani music director. She composed playback music for movies like ''Baharein Phir Bhi Ayein Gi'' (1969) and '' Bin Badal Barsaat'' (1975). She was the elder sister of playback singer Mala. She is known to be the only female musician in the history of Lollywood. Early life and family Shamim Nazli was born in Amritsar, Punjab, British India, in 1940. After the partition of Indian continent in 1947, her family migrated to Pakistan and settled in Faisalabad (then Lyallpur). Nazli had a younger sister Mala who later became a famous playback singer of Pakistani film industry. Nazli's uncle Mirza Sultan Baig (''Nizam Din'') was a radio artist and worked for many years in the famous Punjabi radio program "''Jamhoor Di Awaz''" (The Voice of People) at Radio Pakistan Lahore. Nazli and her sister Mala, both had a passion for music. She trained her sister Mala in music at home and later, took her to the senior music dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shahzia Sikander
Shahzia Sikander (born 1969, in Lahore, Pakistan) is a Pakistani-American visual artist. Sikander works across a variety of mediums, including drawing, painting, printmaking, animation, installation, performance and video. Sikander currently lives and works in New York City. Education Sikander studied at The National College of Arts Lahore in Pakistan, where she was taught the traditional discipline of Indo-Persian miniature painting. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1991. Sikander moved to the United States and attended the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), earning a Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Printmaking in 1995. Early work As an undergraduate student in Lahore, Shahzia Sikander studied the techniques of Persian and Mughal Indo-Persian manuscript painting, often integrating traditional forms of Mughal (Islamic) and Rajput (Hindu) styles and culture. The traditional form of miniature painting requires equal measures of discipline, gesture and expression in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laila Shahzada
Laila Shahzada (1926 – 20 July 1994) was a Pakistani abstract painter who lived and worked in Karachi, Pakistan. Biography Laila Shahzada was born in Littlehampton, England in 1926. After completing her basic education in England, she decided to become a painter-artist and trained initially in England in drawing and watercolour. Later, she trained under the artist, Ahmed Saeed Nagi, in Karachi who taught her how to use oils. She held her first solo exhibition at the Arts Council of Pakistan, Karachi in 1960. Using artifacts of Indus Valley civilization in Pakistan as models, she made a series of paintings reflecting the culture of this ancient civilization. These paintings were shown at an exhibit at Karachi in 1976. In 1986, she participated in a group show at the Shorouks International Gallery, Regent Street, London. A total of 60 to 70 paintings were done by her before hear death. She was killed in a gas explosion at her studio on 20 July 1994. Personal life Shahzada m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiba Schahbaz
Hiba Schahbaz is a Pakistani-American painter. Schahbaz was born in Karachi, Pakistan. She is known for her contemporary paintings that invoke classical styles. Schahbaz trained as a miniaturist painter at the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan, and received an MFA degree from the Pratt Institute Pratt Institute is a private university with its main campus in Brooklyn, New York (state), New York. It has a satellite campus in Manhattan and an extension campus in Utica, New York at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. The school was ... in Brooklyn. She began her career painting with a series of miniature paintings, later expanding to larger scale works. Schahbaz lives and works in New York. References External linksHiba Schahbaz show "Dreaming" (2020) at De Buck Gallery, NYC 1981 births Living people 21st-century American women artists Artists from Lahore National College of Arts alumni Pakistani women artists People from Karachi Pratt Institute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
