Aiza Ahmed (b. 1997, Lahore, Pakistan) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA. She received her B.F.A. from Cornell University (2020) and received her M.F.A. in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design (2024). Solo and two-person presentations include Footnotes, Sargent’s Daughter, Art Basal Qatar (2026); The Music Room at Sargent's Daughters, New York, USA (2025); Border Play, Spring Break Art Show, New York, USA (2025); and No father–No frontier, Twelve Gates Arts, Philadelphia, PA, USA (2025).
Group exhibitions include Time Pass, curated by Rajiv Menon, Half Gallery, New York, NY, USA (2026); North/South, Rajiv Menon Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA, USA; The Big Fat South Asian Show, RISD Museum, Providence, RI, USA (2025); What Lovers Do: RISD MFA Painting Exhibition, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY, USA (2024); Really From, NYC Culture Club, New York, NY, USA (2023); Educate, Christie’s, New York, NY, USA (2020); I Shouted my Laughter to the Stars, Aicon Gallery, New York, USA (2022); First Person, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, USA (2023); Going Dutch: A Rembrandt Soirée, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY, USA (2017); Now Streaming, Rajiv Menon Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA, USA (2024); Parable of the Planes, New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA), New York, NY, USA (2024); In A Look, VM Art Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan (2021); Ladies Who Lunch, Dominion Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan (2021).
Ahmed is the recipient of the 2025 Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant with the Peter Hort Award. She is also the recipient of the RISD Fellowship, The Edith Stone and Walter King Memorial Prize, and the David R. Bean Prize. Ahmed has participated in residencies with William Kentridge and the Centre for the Less Good Idea, Rhode Island; The Macedonia Institute, Chatham, NY; Silver Art Projects, New York; and the Arts Intensive Study Program at Fire Station, Doha.