I scrutinize the repulsion and beauty found in ordinary spaces and situations, and question the normalcy of the seemingly mundane matters in life. For example; how a man inside a woman leads to the birth of another human; turning the woman into a mound of soil in which a human germinates like a plant from a seed, and in the process disfigures the woman to the limits of possibility.
It is in dealing with these observations that I draw them out, to find a place for things that are neither here nor there. Slowly laying out translucent layers of watercolour, I work toward pronouncing some areas, while covering others entirely, almost decoratively as if to say “you didn’t belong, but now you do, or you did belong and now you don’t.” I leave some questions to chance, answer others more definitively, hovering somewhere between restraint and complete spontaneity. The idea is to develop a space or landscape with both extremes in it; the abhorrent and the fantastic. Coexisting to form one complete picture; thriving in the gray areas, its a subtle dance between “is it” and “is it not”.
Khan was born in Birmingham, England in 1984 and raised in Lahore, Pakistan. She holds a BFA (with honours) from National College of Arts, Lahore (2008). She was 1 of 13 international artists selected for the Bag Art camp, an international art residency in Bergen, Norway (2012). She was also 1 of 23 artists selected for the Vancouver Mural Festival (2018).
Her works have been featured in several national and international group exhibitions. In addition to her first solo show “Suraj Kinare” in Canada at the Surrey Art Gallery in 2019, recent group shows include “Terrestrial Beings”, Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre, Medicine Hat, Canada in 2019, and “What is Seen and Not Seen, With or Without Seeing”, Gandhara Art Space, Karachi, Pakistan in 2017. Her work has also been featured in the book “A Big Important Artist: A Womanual” by Danielle Kryza.
She lives and works in Vancouver, Canada

- 2021 Solo: Roshi Key Teh Mein (In the Fold of Light), The Reach Gallery Museum, Abbotsford, BC
- 2021 Group: Mother Tongue, Cityscape Community Art Space, North Vancouver, BC
- 2019 Solo: Suraj Kinare, Surrey Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
- 2019 Group: If You Have A Garden In Your Library II, AAN Ideas, Karachi
- 2019 Group: Terrestrial Beings, Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre, Medicine Hat, AB
- 2019 Group: Somebody Anybody, South Main Gallery, Vancouver, BC
- 2018 Group: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, South Main Gallery, Vancouver, BC
- 2018 Group: Vancouver Mural Festival: Year three, Burrard Arts Foundation, Vancouver, BC
- 2018 Group: Discovery, Seymour Art Gallery, North Vancouver, BC
- 2018 Group: Ever Let the Fancy Roam, Chowkandi Art Gallery, Karachi
- 2018 Group: Neither Here Nor There, South Main Gallery, Vancouver, BC
- 2018 Group: Do You See What I See by Zista Arts, The Super Wonder Gallery, Toronto, ON
- 2018 Group show: Get Lucky Art Show by District Local, Fortune Sound, Vancouver, BC
- 2017 Group show: Ugly Pretty, Taseer Art Gallery, Lahore
- 2017 Two person show: Silent Disparities, Deer Lake Gallery, Burnaby, BC
- 2017 Group: Bad People, Hot Art Wet City, Vancouver, BC
- 2017 Group: What is Seen and Not Seen, With or Without Seeing, Gandhara Art Space, Karachi
- 2016 Group: Aerial Cartographies, Canvas Art Gallery, Karachi
- 2015 Group: They Really Live the Real Reality, Twelve Gates Arts, Philadelphia, PA
- 2013 Charity Auction: Pakistan Rising, Bonhams, London
- 2013 Group: Three person show, Canvas Art Gallery, Karachi
- 2013 Group: My Name is Khan, IVS Gallery, Karachi
- 2012 Group: Band Baaja Baaraat, IVS Gallery, Karachi
- 2012 Solo: The Unsolicited Sidekick, Canvas Art Gallery, Karachi
- 2010 Solo: Error 404, Rohtas Art Gallery, Islamabad
- 2010 Solo: Error 404, Alhamra Art Gallery, Lahore
- 2008 Annual Exhibition: The Generation Next, Alhamra Art Gallery, Lahore
- 2008 Group: Rohtas Art Gallery, Islamabad
- 2007 Annual Exhibition: The Generation Next, Alhamra Art Gallery, Lahore
- 2018 Danielle Krysa, The Jealous Curator, Art for Your Ears (Podcast)
- 2018 Thalia Stopa, Scout Vancouver, Vancouver, 7th Aug
- 2018 Alexander Varty, Georgia Straight, Vancouver, 1st Aug
- 2018 Danielle Krysa, The Jealous Curator, Canada, 16th Feb
- 2017 Katherine Chan, July’s Featured Artist, Sad Mag, Vancouver, July Issue
- 2017 Nimra Khan, Pushing the Boundaries of Contemporary Drawing, Dawn, 26th Feb
- 2017 Numair A Abbasi, And the Marks We Make, Art Now Pakistan, March Issue
- 2016 Shireen Ikramullah, Mindforking: An insight, Art Now Pakistan, December Issue
- 2016 Nimra Khan, Mapping the Self, The Friday Times, Aug 26th
- 2016 Fatima Nadeem, Aerial Cartographies, Art Now Pakistan, August Issue
- 2016 M. Saeed Qureshi, Floating Projections, Dawn Aug 14th
- 2013 Up Close and Personal With Sara Khan, Sunday Times, Pakistan, 4th- 10th Aug
- 2013 Zarmene Shah, Faces of Femininity, The Herald, June 11th- 20th
- 2013 Salwat Ali, Indeterminate Spaces, Art Fiend, Dawn, June 23rd
- 2013 Dua Abbas Rizvi, My Name is.. (catalogue), April
- 2012 Gemma Sharpe, Unity in Diversity, The Herald, April
- 2012 Saima Salman, Artists’ Work: Of Unfinished Business and Unsolicited Sidekick, Dawn, March
- 2012 Peerzada Salman, Unfinished Business and Unsolicited Sidekick, Dawn, March 6th
- 2010 Rahim Khan, Themes of Fear and Anguish, The Express Tribune Dec 29th
- 2021 Burrard Arts Foundation Residency Program, Vancouver, BC
- 2018 Carole Badgley Emerging Artist Award, Seymour Art Gallery, Vancouver
- 2012 Shortlisted for the Sainsbury Scholarship in Painting and Sculpture: Rome
- 2012 BAG Art Camp: International art residency for artists of all disciplines, Bergen, Norway
- 2007 Fine Art Scholarship: National College of Arts Lahore
- 2006 The 13 Satellites of Lahore: Public art workshop, Lahore, Pakistan
- 2019 Indian Summer Festival: Selected Artist, Vancouver
- 2008 Naked Punch (magazine): Illustrator. London, United Kingdom
- 2003 Simorgh (womens resource and publication centre): Illustrator, Lahore Pakistan