Aiza Ahmed
Mirza Sajjad Ali, 2023
Oil on Wood Panel
10 x 7.5 inches
Aiza Ahmed's signature figurative style combines elements of the grandiose with the grotesque, exploring questions of power and status. Here, she uses this hybrid rendering to depict two characters from...
Aiza Ahmed's signature figurative style combines elements of the
grandiose with the grotesque, exploring questions of power and status.
Here, she uses this hybrid rendering to depict two characters from
Satyajit Ray's The Chess Players. Two rich, detached nobles from the
Awadh Kingdom appear in a form that combines the ornate, valorizing art
historical tradition of the time, with Ahmed's semicomic lens, a visual
style that reflects the blending of fiction and the archive. Ahmed's
signature style gives us aesthetic insight into how we can approach the
past in the voice of the present.
grandiose with the grotesque, exploring questions of power and status.
Here, she uses this hybrid rendering to depict two characters from
Satyajit Ray's The Chess Players. Two rich, detached nobles from the
Awadh Kingdom appear in a form that combines the ornate, valorizing art
historical tradition of the time, with Ahmed's semicomic lens, a visual
style that reflects the blending of fiction and the archive. Ahmed's
signature style gives us aesthetic insight into how we can approach the
past in the voice of the present.
artist who works with painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and
installation. Ahmed is currently pursuing her MFA in Painting at the
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD Class of 2024) and received her BFA
from Cornell University in 2020. She is the recipient of the RISD
Fellowship, The Edith Stone and Walter King Memorial Prize and David R.
Bean Prize. Ahmed has exhibited in solo and group shows including at
Christie’s (New York), Aicon Gallery (New York), Franklin Parrasch
Gallery (New York), NYC Culture Club (New York), Herbert F. Johnson
Museum of Art (Ithaca, NY), Hilton Garden Inn Ithaca, Cornell
University, Rhode Island School of Design, VM Art Gallery (Karachi,
Pakistan), Dominion Gallery (Lahore, Pakistan) and Little Lahore
(restaurant in Dubai, UAE). She has also collaborated with Rastah, a
luxury streetwear brand that aims to decontextualize South Asian
heritage. Ahmed’s work is held with private art collectors
internationally.
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