""She's always been here," said Schahbaz of this female figure. The Karachi-born, Brooklyn-based artist has been painting these women all her life. "I come from a very traditional family, but I drew nudes even when I was younger," said the artist in conversation. "I would just be sitting and drawing myself as a teenager. All over my bedroom walls were these drawings of me naked.""
"Schahbaz, who trained in Indo-Persian miniature at the National College of Arts in Lahore, moved to New York to study at Pratt Institute in 2010. In this show, that decade-and-a-half of creativity is presented as a slow wind that carries viewers through a dreamy world of gardens, Sufi poetry, and mysticism, where women become angels and others commune with lions, unicorns, and dragons."
"She paints and draws these women, all versions of self-portraits, across a xylophone of scales, from handheld figures in her Indo-Persian miniatures to larger-than-life paper cut-outs that animate her studio walls like goddesses. Many of these women are reunited again in the artist's first major retrospective, "Hiba Schahbaz: The Garden," at the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami."
Hiba Schahbaz, a Karachi-born, Brooklyn-based artist, has dedicated her career to painting and drawing women as self-portraits in diverse scales, from miniature Indo-Persian works to large paper cut-outs. Despite coming from a traditional family, she pursued her artistic vision of depicting female figures, drawing nudes since her teenage years. Trained in Indo-Persian miniature at the National College of Arts in Lahore, she later studied at Pratt Institute in New York starting in 2010. Her first major retrospective, "Hiba Schahbaz: The Garden," at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, showcases 80 works spanning 15 years. The exhibition presents her creative evolution through dreamy worlds featuring gardens, Sufi poetry, mysticism, and women interacting with mythical creatures. Recent career highlights include solo exhibitions at Almine Rech galleries in London and Paris.
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