Ayesha Siddiqui is a significant young contemporary Pakistani painter. She has a doctorate in Fine Arts (Studio Practice) from the University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. In Pakistan she is the youngest artist with a Studio Practice doctoral degree in Fine Arts. She is a Punjab University Gold Medallist in M.A Fine Arts and is also a Gold Medallist in Master of Computer Science from The National College, Lahore (University of South Asia). During her distinguished academic career she received six gold medals. Siddiqui has the honour of representing Pakistan in the 13th, 14th and 16th Asian art Biennale (2008, 2010 and 2014 respectively) in Dhaka Bangladesh and in the 3rd and 4th Asian Art Expo in Beijing, China, 2011 and 2012. She has sixteen solo shows of paintings and drawings to her credit and has participated in numerous group shows in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Jordan, China, New Zealand and U.K. Her paintings are included in many important public, corporate and private collections in many countries. She has read papers at international seminars and has published articles on the contemporary painting trends in Pakistan, in various magazines and journals of repute. Currently she is preparing for her seventeenth solo show of paintings and is working on her book “Unintelligible Surfaces”.