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= Aisha Khalid (Artist) =

Aisha Khalid (Urdu: عائشہ خالد, born 16 November 1972 in Faisalabad, Pakistan) is a Pakistani artist. Her art works focus on the ongoing struggle for women's rights and everyday Pakistani life. In 2010 she was awarded the "Birgit Skiold Memorial Trust Award of Excellence" at the London Artists Book Fair, and in 2012 she was named by Newsweek magazine as one of the "100 most powerful women in Pakistan."

Personal Life
Khalid married Imran Qureshi, also a miniature painter. They studied together in the studio of Bashir Ahmen in the National College of Arts, Lahore. The couple has exhibited together in shows internationally.

Education
2001-2002 Post Graduation from Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, Netherlands

1997 Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A) from National College of Arts, Lahore in the Miniature Painting Department

Khalid is the first Pakistani artist to have a 2-year residency in the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam

Works
Khalid works mostly with the miniature painting medium; however, she has created videos, as well as in-situ installations and embroidery work including quilts, coats and other textiles

Khalid won the Alice Award (Artist Book Category) in 2012 and was a finalist for the Jameel Prize (2011). Khalid’s work can be found in the permanent collections of the Sharjah Art Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the World Bank.

Exhibitions
Khalid’s works have exhibited in Lahore, Karachi, New Delhi, London, New York, Washington DC, Fukuoka, Vienna, Hong Kong and Venice.

Influence
Khalid’s family background has influenced her work profoundly, bearing witness to the constant pressure female family members face regarding being childless and having their lives revolve around maternity. Her time in Amsterdam and the event of 9/11 the same year in 2001 have also had a decisive effect on her work, with the new mediatized portrayal of her home country Pakistan as a militant Islamic state, accompanied by violence and instability, serving as a turning point of her source of inspiration.

Repetition of patterns is one of the signatures of Khalid’s work, with recurring motifs such as a single eye, suggesting the unceasing surveillance and subjugation of women through controlling their behaviour, as well as the male gaze upon women at the same time. The artist herself had commented in an interview that the “modality of repetition is very central for all my work, and is a source of artistic pleasure. It is not dissimilar to the raga in music, which is based on repeated cycles, and transports one to a meditative state.”