Ayessha Quraishi (b. 1970) lives and works in Karachi. Having received her initial art training from Karachi-based educator Nayyar Jamil, she has spent her career spanning thirty-five years developing her signature technique and visual language. Her practice employs gestural mark-making. And she often integrates painting, sculpture, installation and digital media to explore themes of impermanence and memory. Quraishi is an accomplished artist, a finalist for the 2022 Sovereign Asian Art Prize and the recipient of the 2021 ADA Award. Her recent exhibitions include the 2022 Sovereign Asian Art Prize, Art Central, Hong Kong (2022); Between Light, mid-career retrospective, Koel Gallery (2020) and Uluslararası Istanbul Bienial, Istanbul (2019). Her monograph Between Light – Ayessha Quraishi Works: 1985-2020 was published in February 2020. Quraishi’s work is in private collections in Europe, the United States of America and Asia and the permanent collections of HBL Mega Towers and the
Rangoonwala Foundation UK.