Alia Aziza Bilgrami

Alia Bilgrami, Pakistani-Canadian, based in the Netherlands, is a visual artist, curator and writer. Her contemporary miniature paintings are often combined with analogue photography techniques.
Bilgrami spent her early years in Montréal, Canada, and then Karachi, where she completed her BFA from the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi (2007). She did her MA at Central Saint Martins, (2010). In 2008, she did a curatorial research internship at the Freer & Sackler Galleries, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. Her work has been shown in many local and international exhibitions. She worked as assistant curator at Rohtas Gallery, then as curator at Khaas Gallery, Islamabad, (2010-19).
One of her paintings won the Sovereign Asian Public Vote Prize, Hong Kong (2015). While she was at Central Saint Martins, her siyah qalam tulip won the Cecil Collins Memorial Award for Drawing, London (2010).

MA Fine Art, 2009 - 2010