About the Author

Mahwish Chishty was trained as a Miniature painter at the National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan and holds an MFA degree in Studio Arts from University of Maryland, College Park. She has merged new media and conceptual work with her traditional practice. Ms. Chishty has exhibited her work at Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MOCADA), Brooklyn, NY; Washington Project for the Arts (WPA), Washington, DC; AMOA Museum Arthouse, Austin, TX and Fukuoka Shi Asian Art Museum, Japan among others. She also was the recipient of an artist residency at Montgomery College, Takoma Park, MD. Besides exhibiting nationally and internationally, her paintings are in the permanent collection of Foreign office Islamabad, Pakistan and Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka Shi, Japan.