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Naiza Khan (1968, Pakistan) is an established contemporary artist who lives and works in London and Karachi.

Naiza Khan
Naiza Khan’s, (1968, Pakistan) is an established contemporary artist who lives and works in London and Karachi. Khan’s visual practice is built on a process of critical research, documentation and mapping-based exploration. Through a range of media, including drawing, archival material and video, she brings together ideas of embodiment and ecology. Her work looks at geography as a heterogeneous assemblage of power, colonial history and collective memory. Working with the materiality of space, Khan’s multi-disciplinary practice raises questions about optics and erasure and frictions between old and new infrastructures.

Early life and Education
Khan was born in Bahawalpur, Pakistan in 1968. She moved to London in 1977 to study at St Pauls' Girls' School after which she studied a foundation course in art at Wimbledon School of Art. She gained a place at the prestigious Ruskin School of Art, Oxford, during this time Khan exhibited at the Bluecoat in Liverpool with other notable artists.

She is currently studying for her MA at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths University of London.

Career
Her work has been widely exhibited internationally, including the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Art Basel Hong Kong (2017), Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2016), the Shanghai Biennale (2012) and is in a number of public and private collections.

As a founding member of the Vasl Artists’ Collective in Karachi, she worked to foster art in the city and participated in a series of innovative art projects in partnership with other workshops in the region and beyond. She has been part of the Fine Art Faculty at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, (1991- 2009) and is currently a Senior Advisor at the Visual Studies Department at Karachi University. In addition, she has curated three exhibitions of Pakistani contemporary art, including "The Rising Tide: New Directions in Art from Pakistan", 1990–2010 at the Mohatta Palace Museum, Karachi.

Naiza Khan received the Prince Claus Award in recognition of her exceptional initiatives and activities in the fields of art and culture in 2013 and in the same year Khan had her first major retrospective: "Karachi Elegies" at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum in Michigan.

In 2013 Khan's first monograph was published. Within in she captures the experience of living and working in Karachi, where everyday life is affected by natural disaster, urban migration and political struggle. Khan&#39;s practice includes paintings, sculpture, wall drawings, performance and video. This fully illustrated book, designed by Philipp Hubert and published by ArtAsiaPacific, includes a foreword by Michael Rush, Director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, essays by Salima Hashmi, Karin Zitzewitz, Nafisa Rizvi and an interview by Iftikhar Dadi. This first major monograph on the artist examines over 25 years of Khan's work and accompanies her first US solo exhibition at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, running from February 22-May 26, 2013.

Naiza Khan was the first artist to represent Pakistan at the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, titled May You Live In Interesting Times, curated by Ralf Rugoff currently the director of the Hayward Gallery in London.

Pakistan’s inaugural pavilion, Manora Field Notes was met with critical acclaim both from the Pakistani art world and internationally. The pavilion, curated by Zahra Khan showcased a new body of work that brings together ideas of embodiment, ecology and optics. The presentation immersed the viewer in life upon Manora Island, part of a small archipelago off the harbour of Karachi. Over the period of 2009 - 2019, Khan traversed Manora on foot, documenting its material culture, public space and maritime past, and witnessed the slow erasure of the island’s history and natural ecology.

Publications
Tide - New Directions in Art From Pakistan], (2010), Asia Art Archive.
 * Monograph: Naiza H Khan, (2013), Art Asia Pacific Holdings.
 * [https://www.amazon.com/Mohatta-Palace-Museu-Rising-Directions/dp/9699535008/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1538467488&amp;sr=8-1-fkmr0&amp;keywords=The+Rising+Tide+-+New+Directions+in+Art+From+Pakistan The Rising

Networks/dp/0807833584/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1538467541&amp;sr=8- 1&amp;keywords=Modernism+and+the+Art+of+Muslim+South+Asia Modernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia], (2009) Iftikhar Dadi, UNC.
 * [https://www.amazon.com/Modernism-Muslim-Islamic-Civilization-

Pakistan/dp/0300154186/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1538467566&amp;sr=8- 1&amp;keywords=Hanging+Fire+-+Contemporary+Art+from+Pakistan Hanging Fire - Contemporary Art from Pakistan], (2009) Salima Hashmi; With contributions from Naazish Ata-Ullah, Iftikhar Dadi, Mohsin Hamid, Ayesha Jalal, Quddus Mirza, and Carla Petievich
 * [https://www.amazon.com/Hanging-Fire-Contemporary-Art-

South/dp/0195474988/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1538467592&amp;sr=8- 3&amp;keywords=Comparing+Cities Comparing Cities], (2009), Edited by Kamran Ali &amp; Martina Rieker
 * [https://www.amazon.com/Comparing-Cities-Middle-East-

Sphere (2007) by Iftikhar Dadi. Oxford University Press, Pakistan.
 * Essay: Ghostly Sufis and Ornamental Shadows: Spectral Visualities in Karachi&#39;s Public

Pakistan/dp/0195673476/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1538467628&amp;sr=8- 1&amp;keywords=Memory%2C+Metaphor%2C+Mutations%3A+The+Contemporary+Art+of+Indi a+and+Pakistan Memory, Metaphor, Mutations: The Contemporary Art of India and Pakistan], (2007), Salima Hashmi and Yashodara Dalmia - Oxford University Press.
 * [https://www.amazon.com/Memory-Metaphor-Mutations-Contemporary-


 * Mapping Art South Asia, (2006), Shish.


 * Art in Asia and the Pacific, (2005), Edited by Caroline Turner, Pandanus Books.

Pakistan/dp/9693513614/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1538467686&amp;sr=8- 1&amp;keywords=Unveiling+the+Visible+Lives+and+Works+of+Women+Artists+of+Pakistan Unveiling the Visible Lives and Works of Women Artists of Pakistan], (2002), Salima Hashmi p.158-161.
 * [https://www.amazon.com/Unveiling-Visible-Lives-Artists-

Recent Exhibitions

 * Manora Field Notes, in, May You Live in Interesting Times, 58 th Venice Biennale (2019)
 * Clapping With Stones, Rubin Museum (2019)
 * The Sea is History, Oslo - (2019)
 * Artissima (2018)
 * Lahore Biennale 01 (2018)
 * Art Basel Hong Kong (2017)
 * Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2016)
 * Shanghai Biennale (2012)
 * Cairo Biennale (2010)
 * Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan at Asia Society, New York (2009)
 * Art Decoding Violence, XV Biennale Donna, Ferrara, Italy (2012)
 * Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain (2010)
 * Desperately Seeking Paradise, Art Dubai (2008)