About

Born in 1976 in Hyderabad Sindh, Waseem Ahmed grew up in a family who had migrated from India after the Partition in 1947 to settle in the newly independent state of Pakistan. Today, the artist is a key player on the scene of contemporary miniature painting and is part of a group of South Asian artists that use tradition as a means towards innovation.

Ahmed’s works reveal their complexity through their multiple reading levels and, beyond their esthetic, tackle social and political issues faced by the Islamic world.

Playing with metaphor and analogy, Waseem Ahmed’s repertoire is made up of …