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Naiza Khan (born 1968) is an artist born in Pakistan. Trained in the United Kingdom, her work engages with issues of diaspora and the global south. She has exhibited work internationally, and held retrospectives at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, MI, and

as well as representing Pakistan at the 2019 Venice Biennale.

Background
Khan's family moved to London in 1977. She undertook a foundation year at the Wimbledon School of Art in 1986, then an undergraduate degree at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at the University of Oxford, where she studies under Jean Lodge. The three years at Oxford were, according to the artist, "deeply formative." Khan has recognised thesignificance of her time at the Ruskin as "the bedrock of her initiation as an artist."

She incorporates Urdu and English text into her work; scrutinising form, sound and meaning.

Along with producing her own art, Khan worked toward setting up the first Triangle Network workshop in Pakistan, called the Vasl Artists' Collective, which was an extension of the Triangle Network.

Selected solo exhibitions

 * 2019 Manora Field Notes, Pakistan Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
 * 2014 The Weight of Things, Koel Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
 * 2014 Disrupting the Alignment, Cooper Gallery, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
 * 2013 Karachi Elegies, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, MI, USA

Selected group exhibitions

 * 2010 Manifesta 8 – the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Murcia, Spain
 * 2009 Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan, Asia Society, New York, USA