Naira Mushtaq is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator from Pakistan, currently living and working in London. Ms Mushtaq received her master’s from Central Saint Martins, a recipient of the International Vice-Chancellor Scholarship. Her practice explores the deconstruction and re-framing of the photographs and film archives, focusing on history, memory and social commentary.
Working primarily in painting, she engages with the stories, memories, spaces, and objects that relate to family histories and the histories of the immigrant settlers. Her practice-led research aims to merge personal and political, and to resituate the works in the decolonial canon by relocating the archive. Ms Mushtaq is currently a senior lecturer at Camberwell College of Art.
Notable solo and group exhibitions include “State of Play”, Larkin Durey, The Subject is the subject is..., Pristine Contemporary, Delhi, India, Through a Glass, Darkly, Niru Ratnam Gallery, London, UK, Summer Exhibition 2025, Royal Academy, London, UK, and Bringing the Spice, Raven Row, London, UK. Ms. Mushtaq has received Muse Residency Award 2021-2022, the Bridgeman artist award,2019 Carpenter's Wharf Studio residency award for 2019, London, INKSTER PRINT residency 2019 and SANAT artist residency award, 2014, Pakistan.
