AHSAN MEMON'S moody portraits capture the emotional atmosphere surrounding his subjects, allowing the rich use of color to blur the boundary between figure and background.

Finding both a sense of depth and ambiguity in the soft focus of his figures, Memon's work finds a sense of spiritual and psychological biography through a refusal of certainty.

His paintings carry both a sense of mystery and recognition, revealing universal human truths in the concealed, but specific subjectivity depicted in his paintings.

AHSAN MEMON (born 1989) is a highly accomplished art practitioner from Lahore, Pakistan. He completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree from the esteemed National College of Arts, Lahore, where he received the distinguished Distinction award in 2016. Ahsan further pursued and completed his Master of Arts (MA) in Visual Arts from the same institution in 2019.

Ahsan has consistently exhibited exceptional artistic works on national and international platforms. Notable exhibitions featuring his art include Witness, a prominent display as part of Karachi Biennale 01 in 2017; Cross Borders, curated by Quddus Mirza at the Swiss Ambassadors Residence in Islamabad in 2018; and A Site for Sight, a significant collateral event of the Lahore Biennale 02 in 2019.

Ahsan has also been privileged to participate in several prestigious art residencies, including the ISL Artist Residency and the Pioneer Art Residency, both curated by the renowned Canvas Gallery in Karachi in 2017. He contributed to Taaza Tareen 8, an esteemed residency program organised by the Vasl Artist Collective in Karachi in 2016.

Recognised for his exceptional talent, Ahsan has received numerous prestigious awards, such as the Young Artist Award in the renowned annual exhibition About Time held at Alhamra Art Gallery, Lahore, in 2015. In 2008, he was recognised in the Benazir Bhutto Painting Competition at the Mehran Arts Council in Larkana.