Perhaps what is evident in Meher Afroz is a rare and rich synergy between painting and poetry…we must pay attention to what has been alluded because this is the real substance of the text.

-Akbar Naqvi, The Herald, 1994

Born in Lucknow and practicing since the early 1970s, Meher Afroz is an acclaimed painter and printmaker. She graduated in 1971, with honors from Government College of Arts and Crafts -Lucknow, India, and then moved to Karachi, Pakistan. Afroz is an art educator along with being a founder member of ASNA, a non-commercial organization dedicated to the Exhibition and documentation of Arts and Crafts Pakistan.

Her iconography is derived from comparative religions and culture where each layer, stroke, mark, and the color is very deliberately applied, holding a value and resolve of its own. This repetitive text transcends into a chant-like state, hinting at the wisdom of the content. Afroz skillfully layers surfaces, seeming simple and minimalistic but resulting in-depth, physically, and conceptually.
Shown widely within Pakistan and internationally in Nepal, Iraq, Bangladesh, India, Hong Kong, CANADA, UK, and the USA, Afroz has been honored with several awards, the most recent being the President’s Pride of Performance Award in 2015.

Meher Afroz lives in Karachi and is senior faculty at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture.