Zubeida Agha was among the first Pakistani Modern Artists. After the creation of Pakistan in 1947, she was the first artist to hold an exhibition of her paintings. She helped bring the modern idiom to Pakistan.
Zahoor ul Akhlaq was a pioneering artist from Pakistan. He is known for his approach to painting, sculpture, design and architecture, as well as his teaching at the NCA in Lahore.
Ahmed Parvez was a modernist painter from Rawalpindi, Pakistan. He was a member of The Lahore Group in Pakistan and founder of the Pakistan Group in London. He was also among the few early modernists of Pakistani origin to have garnered considerable critical acclaim, with solo exhibitions at the New Vision, Lincoln, and Clement Stephens galleries in London, along with exhibitions at London's Commonwealth Institute and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford between 1955 and 1964.
Bashir Mirza, also known as BM, was a Pakistani painter artist.
Huma Mulji is a Pakistani contemporary artist. Her works are in the collections of the Saatchi Gallery, London and the Asia Society Museum. She received the Abraaj Capital Art Prize in 2013.
Rashid Rana is a Pakistani artist. He has been included in numerous exhibitions in Pakistan and abroad with his works in abstractions on canvas, collaborations with a billboard painter, photographic/video performances, collages using found material, photo mosaics, photo sculptures, and large stainless steel works he is one of the best Pakistani artists.
Prof. Abdul Rahim Nagori was a Pakistani painter known for his socio-political themes. He has held one-man exhibitions since 1958. He taught at the University of Sindh in Jamshoro, Pakistan where he founded and headed the department of Fine Arts.
Squeak Carnwath is an American contemporary painter and arts educator. She is a professor emerita of art at the University of California, Berkeley. She has a studio in Oakland, California, where she has lived and worked since 1970.
Hasnat Mehmood is a Pakistani visual artist who lives and works in New Jersey. He was born on 3 March 1978 in Jhelum.
Colin David was one of Pakistan's most popular painter-artists of the 1970s. He was mostly famous for his figurative nudes.
Farah Mahbub (born April 10, 1965) aka Farah Jee is a Pakistani fine art photographer and a photography professor teaching at Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi, Pakistan. Mahbub was awarded second prize in the fine art category at Px3.
Humaira Abid is a contemporary artist who was born in Pakistan. The main element she works with is wood. Her recent work combines traditional miniature painting with wood sculpture. Her work examines women's roles, relationships, and taboos from a cross-cultural perspective.
Ustad Bashir Ahmed is a Pakistani painter, also known as Mughal Miniature Painter.
Zehra Laila Javeri is a Pakistani artist. She currently resides in Karachi, Pakistan. Javeri's first solo exhibition, titled 'Weeds', opened at Canvas Gallery, Karachi in January 2014. Javeri was greatly influenced by her aunt, artist Laila Shahzada. Javeri's second non-solo show, titled 'Pakistan Art Today', was held in the Lalit Hotel in Delhi, India.
Bani Abidi is a Pakistani artist working with video, photography and drawing. She studied visual arts at the National College of Arts in Lahore and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2011, she was invited for the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin program, and since then has been residing in Berlin.
Sumaira Tazeen is a Canada-based Pakistani artist who specializes in contemporary miniature art. A gold medalist from National College of Arts, Tazeen has presented her work to various influential peronsalities around the world including Queen Elizabeth II (1997), Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf (2006) and Queen Rania of Jordan.
Adeela Suleman is a contemporary Pakistani sculptor and artist, based in Karachi. She is known for the social and political commentary underlying her sculptures, which are created out of mundane, everyday objects.
Aisha Khalid is a female contemporary visual artist, working with miniature painting, textiles, video and site specific installations in architectural spaces.
Marjorie Husain is a British artist, art critic and writer who lived in Pakistan between the 1960s and 2019. Within the country, she was a prominent figure of the art community as well as being a founding member of its first art gallery. She worked to promote Pakistani art on both the national and international levels.
Tazeen Qayyum is a Pakistani-born Canadian conceptual artist working in a variety of media including miniature painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, and video. Her work explores issues of identity, immigration, socio-political conflict, and her Muslim identity.
