Aisha Khalid - Artist Info

About Aisha Khalid

  • Biography

    Khalid has risen to become one of Pakistan's most celebrated contemporary artists. She studied at the Rijksakademie, in Amsterdam, and attended the National College of Arts, in Lahore, where she studied miniature painting alongside several other young artists of the "neo-miniature" movement. Her paintings and installations often incorporate woven and stitched materials, referencing the curtains and veils the separate and define people, literally and figuratively. Since 2000, her work has appeared in solo shows in London, Calcutta and Manchester, and in group shows at galleries and museums in New York, Berlin, Vienna, San Francisco, Lahore and Brisbane. Her work Kashmiri Shawl gained attention at the Sharjah Biennial, a giant pashmina scChristie's, Mumbai...

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