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= Nusra Latif Qureshi =

Early Life
Nusra Latif Qureshi was born in Lahore, Pakistan in 1973. She trained and studied art in Lahore. Qureshi moved to Melbourne in 2001 to further advance her career in art. Quershi focused on the art of Mughal miniature paintings and the traditional history of Southern Asia. Unlike the traditional Mughal miniature paintings of India which solely include a masculine figure, Qureshi’s paintings always display an isolated feminine figure.

Education
Nusra Latif Qureshi attended the National College of Arts, Lahore, obtaining a bachelor's degree in fine arts. She attended the Victorian College of the Arts at the University of Melbourne, obtaining a master degree in fine arts.

Career
Qureshi’s works have been shown widely in numerous solo and group exhibitions all across Asia, Australia, the United Kingdom and the United states. The Art Gallery of New South Wales announced that artist Nusra Latif Qureshi has been chosen as the 2019 recipient of the $80,000 Bulgari Art Award. This is the first time that this has been awarded to an artist for their entire body of work as opposed to a singular painting.

Nusra Latif Qureshi’s art has been shown in the following exhibits:

 * ‘Beyond the Self’ at the National Portrait Gallery, in 2011
 * Canberra, in 2011
 * ‘Realms of Intimacy: Miniaturist Practice from Pakistan’ at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, in 2011
 * ‘The Rising Tide’ at Mohatta Palace Museum, Karachi, in 2010
 * ‘Beyond The Page’ at Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, in 2010
 * ‘Living Traditions’ at the National Art Gallery, Islamabad, in 2009
 * ‘East West Divan: Contemporary Art from Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan’ at the 53rd Venice Biennale, in 2009
 * ‘An Ever Expanding Universe’ at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, in 2008
 * ‘Karkhana: A Contemporary Collaboration’ at Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut, in 2005
 * ‘Beyond Borders: Art of Pakistan’ at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, in 2005
 * A solo exhibition at Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, in 2004

Inspiration
Nusra Latif Qureshi moved to Melbourne in 2001, where she lives and works now. Many experiences of her childhood growing up in Pakistan and being an immigrant in Australia is reflected in her art. Her art reflects stereotypes of immigrant women and their struggles as they try to survive in the real world. She takes ideas of the past, present, and future and depicts them in her works of isolated women figures.

Works
Nusra Latif Qureshi’s work mainly revolved around the genre of neo-miniaturism, a contemporary technique that is mainly dominated by Pakistani artists. Qureshi particularly applies methods of art from Indo-Persian mugals by incorporating Urdu calligraphy, but also dives into modern artistic methods by using photography. She primarily incorporates themes from historical Southeast Asian artwork and blends it with contemporary methods to convey messages that discuss, but aren’t limited to identity and gender.

Qureshi was once asked why miniature is her choice of art, and she expresses that she simply finds it appealing. She goes into explaining how she admired the attention to detail, and how the particular choice of color that is used to emphasize certain parts of a piece of art is fascinating to her. She says, “This style of painting carries within it a particular sensibility and aesthetic that is distinct from other modes of painting.” After she made her move to Australia in 2001 for prostrad study, from her own experience as a migrant woman in an Australian society, she was able to add a whole new layer to her art work in efforts to push her contemporary art.