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Talha Rathore, born 1970 in Gujranwala, Pakistan, graduated from the National College of Arts, Lahore, in 1995, specializing in miniature painting. Currently based out of New York, where she moved in 1998, her work often poetically explores dichotomies and anxieties – of being an immigrant or belonging; of the natural and the manmade, especially in the series of works made on New York subway maps.

In her words, “I seek to unravel the... Talha Rathore, born 1970 in Gujranwala, Pakistan, graduated from the National College of Arts, Lahore, in 1995, specializing in miniature painting. Currently based out of New York, where she moved in 1998, her work often poetically explores dichotomies and anxieties – of being an immigrant or belonging; of the natural and the manmade, especially in the series of works made on New York subway maps.

In her words, “I seek to unravel the mysteries of cellular forms, viruses, and bacterias as they appear, disappear, and metamorphose. I put life itself under the microscope and is struck by the metaphorical possibilities of these encounters. Navigating these enigmas, I invest such forms with anxieties that threaten to engulf me. I invent conversations, skirmishes, rivalries, and alliances between battalions of minuscule forms, which become actors in these narratives. I try to employ marks in fluid ways. Some hark back to early lessons in the miniature studio at the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan.”

In 1997, Rathore was awarded the UNESCO Bursary for young artists, and given the opportunity to take up a residency at the Sanskriti Kendra in New Delhi, India. Her work has been exhibited widely, including at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan; the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut; and World Bank Art Gallery, Washington DC. Among the exhibitions her work has been featured in are those at Aicon Gallery, New York, in 2008; Rohtas Gallery, Lahore, in 2007; Nature Morte, New Delhi, in 2004; Bose Pacia Gallery, New York, in 2003; and Gallery Espace, New Delhi, in 1998. Her works have also been exhibited in various other galleries in the UK, Malaysia, India, China, Pakistan, Nepal, Germany, Japan, Morocco, Canada, Dubai, and the USA.

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