User:Tina ng123/Bani Abidi

Early life
A Pakistani women, Abidi was born in Karachi, the capital of Pakistani province of Sindh, in 1971. She lives in New Delhi and Karachi. In 1994, she chose to study painting and printmaking, earning a Bachelor of Arts from the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan. From 1997 she studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, completing a master's degree in 1999. At the Art Institute of Chicago, she was to sense the diasporan dilemma of cultural identity, where roots were being replaced by routes in her reflections on postcolonial issues. Her work indicated this through references to both craft and kitsch. From 2000, Abidi has participated in numerous residency programs, including Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine (2000), Khoj International Artists Residency, Delhi (2001), Fukuoka Artist Exchange Program, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum(2005),etc.