Tandoo, 2022
Mussarat Arif was born in Karachi, Pakistan in 1972. She graduated from Karachi School of Arts in 1996. She started exhibiting work the same year in Sadequain art gallery. Her work focuses on traditional South Asian identity through Islamic geometric symbols. Her work also encapsulates traditional clothing of Pakistan like ‘Ajrak’. She has exhibited her work in Pakistan, USA, Italy, Saudia Arabia, Hong Kong, Dubai, Qatar, Singapore, UK and Malaysia. She is one of the pioneers of the revival of calligraphic South Asian art in Pakistan with more than 40 shows under her name. Her work is also included in the public collection of Larson Art Gallery in Washington, D.C. and Pakistan National Council of Arts in Islamabad, Pakistan.