Ahsan Jamal

Ahsan Jamal is a Lahore-based artist whose practice reimagines portraiture within Indo-Persian miniature painting. Integrating found materials and imported waste, he explores anthropomorphism, socio-political critique, and religious satire. Exhibited globally, Jamal also teaches miniature painting at major Pakistani institutions. His work resides in Fukuoka Asian Art Museum and private collections.

Atif Khan

Atif Khan is a Pakistani artist whose work celebrates local visual culture, blending Central Asian/Persian aesthetics with South Asian storytelling. A National College of Arts alumnus, he has received prestigious awards and residencies, exhibited globally, and co-curated the 2022 Asian Art Biennale. He currently actively teaches at his alma mater.

Allison Liu

Allison Liu, founder of Song Art Foundation Singapore, is a Ph.D. candidate in aesthetics, a visiting professor, and a Provincial Master of Ceramic Arts in China. Her “Statement of Six Senses” merges traditional Chinese shanshui with contemporary innovation. She has curated major exhibitions, published research, and earned ceramic design awards.

Hamza Qazi

Qazi inquires the heightened forms of visual realism, while what is depicted as his pictorial realisation is motivated by an inner authenticity. Interested in representation of figures and arrays his paintings are the strong existentialist characters that represent fragments of a mosaic of human life, experiences and discourses that he painterly transforms into mysterious banality.

Tahira Noreen

Tahira Noreen is an Islamabad-based visual artist and NCA Lahore graduate, renowned for her intricate linear abstractions on wasli. She has exhibited widely, including in London and Barcelona, earning the ADA Award (2022-23) and TAF shortlisting (2024). She won the Curator’s Award. Noreen teaches at universities, blending practice and pedagogy.

Shahana Munawar

Shahana Munawar is a Pakistani artist from Hyderabad, based in Karachi. A 2003 NCA Printmaking graduate, she explores personal narratives and female experiences through painting, printmaking, and 3D media. Notable works include the “I Am You” mural collaboration. In 2022, she exhibited “A Dil e Nadaan…” at O Art Space.

Umna Laraib

Umna Laraib is a visual artist from Rohri, Sindh, who graduated with distinction in Miniature Painting from the National College of Arts, Lahore. She explores color as a dynamic, living element, creating subtle tonal variations within structured lines and shapes. Alongside her own exhibitions across Pakistan, she has curated shows and currently lives and works in Lahore.

Nasim G. Pachi

Nasim G. Pachi is an Iranian-German contemporary painter exploring cultural and religious restrictions on women. Her monumental canvases juxtapose female figures with intricate patterns, challenging identity, freedom, and gender norms. Having lived across Europe, Africa, and Asia, she investigates personal identity in a global context, working primarily in oil and acrylic on linen.

Syed Munawar Ali

Munawar Ali Syed is a Karachi-based multidisciplinary artist and educator. With a BFA from NCA and an MA in Art Education, his works span drawing, installation, sculpture, and performance, exploring social stratification and consumer culture. Winner of multiple awards, he also leads public art initiatives, bridging tradition and contemporary practices.

Manjeet Shergill

Manjeet Shergill is a celebrated Singaporean Punjabi artist renowned for her versatility across diverse mediums. A Lasalle College of the Arts graduate, she depicts everyday life in vivid representational style. Praised by Mrs. Della Butcher, Manjeet’s art reflects her passion, cultural vibrancy, and unwavering dedication to enriching Singapore’s artistic landscape. 

Mirza Zeeshan

Mirza Zeeshan Hussain (b.1993, Gilgit) is a Pakistani contemporary artist and educator in Lahore, trained in Indo-Persian miniature painting at the National College of Arts. Working in drawing, painting, miniature, and sculpture, he uses soft toys to symbolize human vulnerability. Exhibited widely, his art delves into personal and universal realities.

Ellie Lasthiotaki

Ellie Lasthiotaki is a Greek artist based in Singapore who transforms life’s beauty into visual poetry. Her distinctive scribbling and abstraction celebrate human-nature connections, fostering spiritual positivity. With five solo exhibitions and numerous shows, she’s twice been a Taipei Art Competition finalist and featured in 2023 National Gallery Benefit Auction.

Mariam Arshad

Mariam’s art centers on cultural aesthetics and personal experiences in a hyperconnected world. Her current series explores touch and trust through StreetSide grooming professions. Using goosebumps and shadows as metaphors, she highlights vulnerability, discrimination, and the intimate bonds formed when strangers handle each other’s bodies for care and transformative moments.

Samina Islam

Samina’s art critically examines social and cultural issues, employing a consistent methodology but diverse materials. She hand-stitches her pieces, combining photography, textiles, and threads to explore endless possibilities in needlework. Her time-intensive process and experimental approach yield continually evolving works that reflect self-expression, meditation, and a creative passion for innovation.

Kiran Waseem

Kiran Waseem is a Lahore-based artist exploring memory, imagination, and motion. An honors Painting graduate from NCA, she layers paint on reflective aluminum to evoke hazy nightscapes. Exhibiting widely across Pakistan, she also works with design showrooms and sings classical music. Kiran currently teaches Visual Art at Lahore Grammar School.

Donia Kaiser

Lahore-based artist Donia Kaiser graduated with distinction in Miniature Painting from NCA in 2011. She has had four solo shows at Chawkandi, Galerie Steph, and O Art Space. Twice selected for Spot Art in Singapore, she also exhibited at Deutsche Bank, Singapore. Her style blends worldly subjects with dreamlike scenes.

Astrid Dahl

Astrid explores multiple themes and processes, grounded in nature’s complexity. Plants and trees become living spirits in her work, echoing the interconnectedness of all life. She embraces continuous evolution, layering and reworking her pieces as each moment and emotion changes. For Astrid, art is never truly finished, only momentarily paused.

Sadaf Naeem

Pakistan-based visual artist Sadaf Naeem works in painting, mixed media, and installation. She earned her MFA from the University of Hawaii at Manoa (2022) and BFA from the National College of Arts (2002). Sadaf has exhibited, received awards, and teaches art, transforming domestic spaces and women’s silhouettes into evocative narratives.