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A feminist voice included in the show is Naiza Khan, who in 2019 was the first ever artist to represent Pakistan at the Venice Biennale. “This is a seminal exhibition, ambitious in scope and scale,” Khan says, stating that the show evoked “a sense of pride”.

“It is the first major exhibition of art and architecture from Pakistan in the region. Doha has a large community of the south Asian diaspora that live and work there, which creates another web of context and relationship for the community.”

PREVAILING LATITUDE Siddhartha Mitter on the Sharjah Biennial

At the Dawn of the century no special sign presaged Sharjah’s rise to its present status as an artistic incubator and arguably today’s most influential hub of research and creation focused on what is now called the Global South.

This show in Sharjah spotlights the exciting history of South Asian pop art

Henna and its Politically Fraught Symbolisms

Naiza Khan's Henna Hands and its Afterlives (2002-2022) is another haunting work that blends the politics of feminism with urban popular culture. The artist, who lives between Karachi and London, reveals that this is a revisiting of an earlier project she made two decades ago.

Artist Residency Film

This short film, created by Hydar Dewachi, features Feedback Theatre (Nina Feldman, Debora Mina and Mita Pujara), Sheila Ghelani and Naiza Khan, who participated in the Monsoonal Multiplicities artist residency. exhibition.monass.org​​​

Naiza Khan - Creative Collaborations from the Field

Khan discusses her visual practice and explores how ideas of an embodied mapping can create a complex, field site of situated knowledge – from a specific geography, text or memory.

Manora Field Notes & Beyond: A conversation with Naiza Khan

A conversation with Naiza Khan 23 June 2021 In 2019, Naiza Khan became the first British-Pakistani artist to represent Pakistan for the country’s inaugural pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale.

NAIZA KHAN AND THE SPIRIT OF MAKING Navigating Pakistan’s Creative Spaces and the Role of Gender and Class By Maryam Irfan

One of Pakistan’s most prolific contemporary artists, Naiza Khan has been a major contributor both to the local art scene and on international art platforms.

The Blue Beyond: Naiza Khan’s Manora and ‘The-Left-to-Die-Boat’ | By Ben Pollitt

As the remnants of the old Talpur Fort attest, alongside the lighthouse built by the British in the late nineteenth century, Manora Island, situated at the end of a peninsular ten miles opposite the Port of Karachi, is a place that affords wide prospects.

Agha Khan Museum II

From life under lockdown to her recent work, artist Naiza Khan discusses her broader artistic practice and reveals, for the first time, footage of her collaboration with a community of artisans in Karachi.

Pakistan, Madagascar and the other first-timers at the Venice Biennale

From an immersive installation to a socio-historical voyage, here’s what the new arrivals are bringing to La Serenissima Debuting alongside Ghana at the 58th Venice Biennale will be the Pakistan, Madagascar, Malaysia and Dominican Republic pavilions.

Memories of Manora: Artist Naiza Khan Represents Pakistan at the Venice Biennale

Inspired by 12 years of travel to the Karachi peninsula, artist Naiza Khan puts Manora on the map in her most recent body of work, exploring ideas of space and shared experiences for the first Pakistan pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

Naiza Khan’s ‘disrupted geography’ on display in Venice

DUBAI: The 2019 Venice Biennale marked the first time that Pakistan has had a national pavilion at the world’s oldest and most prestigious contemporary art show.

Naiza Khan: Manora Field Notes

For the 58th Venice Biennale, Pakistan will present its inaugural pavilion, a solo project by the multi-disciplinary artist Naiza Khan.

Naiza Khan Will Represent Pakistan at 2019 Venice Biennale

Curated by Zahra Khan, the pavilion will feature a project called Manora Field Notes. The work will focus on the Pakistani island of Manora, off the coast of Karachi, and documentation related to its history.

NAIZA KHAN TO REPRESENT PAKISTAN AT 2019 VENICE BIENNALE

For the country’s debut at the Venice Biennale, Pakistan will present work by the multidisciplinary artist Naiza Khan. Khan’s practice, which encompasses drawing, prints, installation, and text, investigates the legacies of colonialism, labor-force migrations, and urban development within the ecology of local environments.

Naiza Khan to represent Pakistan in country’s first-ever participation at the Venice Biennale

London- and Karachi-based artist's show will explore life on Manora Island.

Pakistan will officially participate in the Venice Biennale for the first time this year, with a solo exhibition by the multi-disciplinary artist Naiza Khan.

In a first, Pakistani artist to participate in Venice Biennale

Naiza Khan's work will showcase paintings, sculptures and wall drawings with research of life on Manora Island.

A Pakistani artist is all set to participate in the upcoming Venice Biennale 2019 for the first time in the country’s history.

Karachi to Venice: In conversation with Naiza Khan | By ArtNow Pakistan

ArtNow: As this was the first year Pakistan participated in the Venice Art Biennale, what were some of your key considerations for the inaugural exhibition?

Book Review | NAIZA KHAN | By Fatima Ghulam

“Cautiously one approaches Naiza Khan’s artistic practices, reflecting on its many strands, over several decades”, thus writes Salima Hashmi

Naiza Khan represents Pakistan at the Venice Biennale 2019 | By Simone Wille

With her solo exhibition Manora Field Notes, the multidisciplinary artist presents her work in the Biennale’s first-ever Pakistan Pavilion.

Manora Field Notes, Naiza Khan | By Pavilion of Pakistan

Works in the first gallery respond to an archival weather report from 1939 - The India Weather Review - which Khan retrieved from the dilapidated Manora Weather Observatory, a nineteenth-century British colonial structure.

In conversation with Zahra Khan, curator of the Pakistan Pavilion | By ArtNow Pakistan

ArtNow: The relationship between curator and artist is a unique personal and professional one. What drew you to selecting Naiza Khan to be a solo artist for the exhibition?

In conversation with Naiza Khan on her participation in the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial and more. | By Jovita Alvares

Living and working between Karachi and London, Pakistani born artist, Naiza Khan received her formal training from the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford, and the Wimbledon College of Art, London.

The Anatomy of a City – In Conversation with Naiza Khan | By Nimra Khan

Naiza Khan is an internationally acclaimed artist living and working between London and Karachi. She is Senior Advisor at the Department of Visual Studies, University of Karachi, and a member of the Board of Governors, Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi. She received her BFA from the University of Oxford, Somerville College, Ruskin School of Art, Oxford, UK.

منوڑہ ایک دہائی میں

لندن میں مقیم پاکستانی فنکارہ نیازا خان کے جزیرہ نما منوہرہ پر فن پاروں نے زمین کے ایک مختلف پلاٹ اور اس کی پیچیدگیوں کے مابین تسلسل اور عدم مطابقت کی کھوج کی۔

Koel Gallery presents! “SET IN A MOMENT, YET STILL MOVING”

A solo show by Naiza Khan at Koel Gallery KARACHI.

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Naiza Khan: Alternative Art Spaces and the Empowerment of the Artist | By Hajra Haider Karrar

Naiza Khan is a visual artist investigating corporeal and coastal geographies through sensory and visual materialities that comprise the human experience through the ages, portraying the continuous hold of history on to the present.

Naiza Khan: Between Reasonings And Residencies | By Sehr Jalil

Residency is rather a strange word – presumably it takes origin from residence… which means that it does imply that “this is a place to reside ”but on the same podium … it doesn’t give complete control …it sneakily makes sure in its diplomacy – “that you are not here forever – it is not home – you are on a residency so make the most of it ..If you may”

Naiza Khan and Sonya Battla: Manora Collection | By Simone Wille

Born in Bahawalpur in 1968, internationally acclaimed visual artist Naiza H. Khan studied at the Wimbledon School of Art, the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art and Somerville College at the University of Oxford.

Tools of the Trade | By Naiza Khan

The tools in my art practice are intrinsically linked to the direction my work is taking and the questions I am trying to raise. I often work with multiple media simultaneously. This process of investigation leads me to rediscover familiar tools and sometimes demands modes of working with new tools.

The weightlessness of things | By Peerzada Salman

Naiza Khan is one of those very few Pakistani artists who constantly reinvent themselves with the distinction that they don’t like to reinvent the wheel, as it were, but themselves.

Giving weight: Celebrate chaos and mischief with Naiza Khan through a myriad of mediums

The artist’s exhibition, titled ‘The Weight of Things’ goes up at Koel Gallery.

Naiza Khan - Disrupting The Alignment

Unfortunately Naiza Khan's Artist's Talk has been cancelled due to illness. Please join us from 5.30pm in Cooper Gallery for the Preview of her exhibition.

The "state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the rule.

– Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History, 1940.

Pakistani artist wins the coveted Prince Claus Award

A Pakistani artist was presented with a prestigious international art award on Friday for “breaking stereotypes, especially highlighting the complex social position of women”.

Prince Claus Awards Committee on Naiza Khan

Visual artist Naiza Khan (1968, Bahawalpur) is a keen observer of crucial social paradoxes in Pakistani society. Drawing on her own experiences and not afraid of dealing with contentious subjects, her focus is the relationship of identity and place, the interweaving of the personal and the political.

Interview: Ameliorating creative fortitude

Hailing from a family of pragmatist doers, Naiza Khan, a contemplative artist endowed with a probing mind, continues to sail ahead at full steam in the disciplines of sculpture, painting and printmaking.

Naiza Khan work published in Tar magazine

Pakistan’s Naiza Khan wins 2013 Prince Claus Award | By Brittney

Visual artist Naiza Khan is honoured for her “complex and nuanced” art works.

Did you know?: Pakistani visual artist receives Prince Claus Award

Naiza’s work represents a deep analysis of the crucial paradoxes of Pakistani society.

Naiza H Khan | The Rising Tide: New Directions in Art from Pakistan

Naiza H Khan, visual artist and researcher based in Karachi, will present a talk at AAA, focusing on selected artistic production/processes which offer a cultural and critical evaluation of developments in contemporary art practice in Pakistan today.

Pakistan’s Palette of Blood and Tears | By Jane Perlez

KARACHI, Pakistan - In this chaotic city of 18 million people, an exhibition of works by Pakistan’s most significant contemporary artists shows just how imbued with violence daily life here is: on the street, in the air and in the debate about the future course of the nation.

Curated by Naiza Khan and held at the majestic Mohatta Palace Museum in Karachi, ‘The Rising Tide’ exhibition is perhaps the first large-scale effort to explore contemporary art practice within Pakistan. On from November 2010 through March 2011, this ambitious exhibition is, by all measures, a landmark occasion. By Maha Malik

Pakistan's contemporary artists respond to strife | By Declan Walsh

Exhibition at Karachi's Mohatta Palace documents in art Pakistan's modern political, economic and religious conflicts.

The bread of death: Pakistan’s artists react to strife | By Declan Walsh

Bereaved sculptor’s ‘limb’ loaves express her grief Country’s troubles provide catalyst for creation Declan Walsh Karachi After Islamist militants killed Nausheen Saeed’s father last year during an assault on the minority Ahmadi community that left 86 people dead, the Pakistani sculp- tor worked through her grief in an unusual way. She baked bread.