Kishwar Kiani GBA is a visual artist, sculptor and an academic from Pakistan, currently based in Rawalpindi. 

Questioning how order and chaos coexist through scaffoldings underpins her visual arts practice. She identifies her ‘true-self’ in order and chaos, through scaffolds and mazes. Her works vary from charcoal to metal, exploring ways to break away from the constraints of her learning. She identifies her surroundings as a gigantic scaffolding and in perpetual creative movement: building, renovating, elevating but also obliterating. 

With her illustrated drawings of people falling out of a crumbling maze and sculptures on the verge of complete disintegration, she toys with chance in hope to find new ways of keeping the viewer at an edge, hanging, predicting the outcome. As every work takes its form from the previous one, the order that once stood separate becomes systemised within chaos as a linear narrative in her works.

STATEMENT

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2020 - 2021 - MA Fine Art - Camberwell College of Arts (University of Arts London), UK

2007 - 2011 - BFA - Fatima Jinnah Women University, Pakistan

2025 - ‘Gilbert Bayes Award Show’ - Royal Society of Sculptors, London (Upcoming)

2025 - ‘India Art Fair’ - Art Incept, New Delhi (Upcoming)

2024 - ‘Maps’ - O Art Space, Lahore (Upcoming)

2024 - ‘For outcome of outcome’ - Sanat Initiative, Karachi (Upcoming)

2024 - ‘Back to Basics’ - Articulate Studios, Lahore

2024 - ‘To be or Not to be’ - Numaish Gah, Lahore

2024 - ‘MK Calling’ - MK Gallery, Milton Keynes

2024 - ‘Memory Keepers - India Art Fair Parallel’ - Art Incept, Gurgaon

2023 - ‘Conquering the White Space II’ - Khaas Contemporary, Islamabad

2023 - ‘World Within, World Without’ - Art Incept, IF.Be Ballard Estate, Mumbai

2023 - ‘Inception Grant 2023 Finalist Show'- Art Incept , New Delhi

2022 - ‘Eve’s I/ Eye II’ - Sanat Initiative, Karachi

2022 - 'Finalist Exhibition/Visual Art Open' - Unit 1 Gallery, London

2022 - 'Sculptor/Sculpture' - COMO Museum, Lahore

​2022  - 'Shortlisted for Drawing of the Year 2021 Competition' - Archisource, London

​2021 - 'Coded Iconic - Room III - Virtual Exhibition' - The Holy Art, London

2021 - 'Now - Grad Show' - Saatchi Gallery, London

2021 - 'MA Fine Art Graduate Showcase' - South London Gallery, London

2021 - 'Unmute' - Copeland Gallery, London

2019 - 'Sunny Art Prize - Exchange Program' - Harmony Art Gallery, Shanghai

​2018 - 'The Art of Creation' - Patchogue Arts Council, New York

2018 - 'Barcelona Art Prize' - Cage Gallery, Barcelona 

2018 - 'Art Takes Soho' - See Me, New York

2018 - 'Sunny Art Prize' - Sunny Art Centre, London

2018 - 'Thresholds' - Gonzo Unit, Thessalloniki

2017 - ‘Onrushing 2’ - Gallery 6, Islamabad

2017 - 'Textures, Forms & Colours' - Nukta Studios, Rawalpindi

2017 - 'The Arjumand Award 2017' -  Pakistan National Council of Arts, Islamabad

2012 - ‘10th Emerging Talent 2012' -  VM Art Gallery, Karachi

2012 - 'Winds of Change' -  Alhamra Art Gallery, Lahore

EXHIBITIONS

FEATURES AND PUBLICATIONS

AWARDS

2024 - Gilbert Bayes Award

2024 - Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors

2024 - Finalist - The Arts Family London Emerging Art Prize

2024 - Nigaah Art Award - Emerging Female Artist

2023 - Finalist for Art Incept’s Inception Grant

2020 - 2021 Chevening Scholarship Award