Aisha Khalid

Aisha Khalid, born in Faisalabad (PK) in 1972, lives and works in Lahore (PK). She is one of Pakistan’s leading contemporary artists, curators and art teachers. She graduated from the National College of Arts, Lahore, and is a post-graduate of the Rijksakademie van beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (NL). Khalid is part of the so-called Neo-Miniature movement’s first generation. The trend, which started in Lahore around 1990, “rehabilitates” the traditional miniature painting technique from the Moghul Empire, giving it new life by mixing it with other media and updating it to reflect a more contemporary aesthetic. She was a finalist and people’s choice winner of the 2011 Jameel Prize, and was also awarded the 2012 Alice Award and the 2010 Birgit Skiold Memorial Trust Award of Excellence.
 

Solo exhibitions
2016 Two Worlds as One, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen. 2012 Larger Than Life, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (UK). 2004 Corvi-Mora Gallery, London.
 

Group exhibitions
2014 Garden of Ideas: Contemporary Art from Pakistan, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto (CA), Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem (NL). 2013 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow. 2011 The Jameel Prize, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Sharjah Biennial 10, Plot For A Biennial, Sharjah. 2009 East–West DIVAN: Contemporary Art from Afghanistan, Iran & Pakistan, Venice Biennale Collateral Event, La Scuola Grande della Misericordia, Venice (IT). 2008 Living Traditions, Queen’s Palace, Bagh-e-babur, Kabul. 2002 The Galleries Show: Contemporary Art in London, Royal Academy of Arts, London. 2nd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka (JP).
 

Publications
Sabine B. Vogel (ed.), Political Patterns. Ornament im Wandel, exh. cat. ifa-Galerie Berlin, Stuttgart, 2011. 

Aisha Khalid, Name, Class, Subject, Raking Leaves, London 2010.

Jemima Montagu, Constance Wyndham (eds.), Living Traditions, exh. cat. Queen’s Palace, Bagh-e-babur, Kabul, Turquoise Mountain, Kabul 2009.

Indian Highway, exh. cat. Serpentine Gallery, Koenig Books, London 2008.

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