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Born in 1981 in Karachi, Mahreen Zuberi completed her Bachelor’s degree Fine Arts from the National College of Art, Lahore, with a specialization in miniature painting. Applying the traditional miniature technique to contemporary subjects, she confronts questions of gender, intimacy and the balance of power in interactions through meticulously drawn and structured paintings. By signifying imbalances of relationships through inanimate objects,... Born in 1981 in Karachi, Mahreen Zuberi completed her Bachelor’s degree Fine Arts from the National College of Art, Lahore, with a specialization in miniature painting. Applying the traditional miniature technique to contemporary subjects, she confronts questions of gender, intimacy and the balance of power in interactions through meticulously drawn and structured paintings. By signifying imbalances of relationships through inanimate objects, and investing meaning in them Zuberi serves to underline the violence inherent in relationships, amongst humans or of humans with their environments.

Zuberi has exhibited widely including at ‘Resemble Reassemble’ at the Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, in 2010; ‘Invisible Cities’ at Aicon Gallery, New York, in 2010; ‘Hanging Fire’ at the Asia Society Museum, New York, in 2009; ‘Associated Metaphors’ at IVSAA Gallery, Karachi, in 2008; at the National Gallery of Art, Islamabad, in 2007; ‘A Thousand and One Days’ at Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii, in 2005; ‘Miniatures Contemporaines Du Pakistan’, France, in 2005; ‘Re-inventing Narratives’ at La Galerie Mohamed-el-Fassi, Morocco, in 2005; and ‘Contemporary Miniature Paintings from Pakistan’ at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan, in 2004. She has also participated in the South Asian Artists Camp, India, in 2010; the Krishnakariti Art Festival, India, in 2008; the International Artist Workshop, Jordan, in 2007; and the VASL International Workshop, Gadani, in 2006.

Zuberi’s work features in the collections of the Queensland Art Gallery, Australia; Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan; and the Devi Art Foundation, India. She is the Fine Arts Coordinator at Karachi University’s Department of Visual Studies.

The artist lives and works in Karachi.

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