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.