Ali Kazim

About

Ali Kazim is a Pakistani contemporary artist born in 1979 in Pattoki, near Lahore, Pakistan. He developed an early passion for art, influenced by primary school teachers and cinema billboard painters. Kazim earned his BFA from the National College of Arts in Lahore in 2002 and an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art in London in 2011. He had his first solo exhibition in Lahore in 2004, followed by shows in London and New York in 2006. Currently, he lives and works in Lahore as an Assistant Professor at the National College of Arts, creating multidisciplinary works including layered watercolours, drawings, sculptures, and installations that blend realistic figures in surreal, dream-like settings inspired by Pakistani landscapes, ancient civilizations, and miniature painting techniques.[1][2][4][9]

Contemporary surrealism with miniature painting techniques, featuring realistic figures in dream-like landscapes and textured, layered effects.