Attiya Shaukat (born 1980) is a visual artist currently based in Karachi, Pakistan. She completed her BFA from the National College of Arts, Lahore in 2004.
Attiya uses personal references from her life as part of her artistic practice and utilises her power of expression to depict the body and soul rather than treat art as a career. She has been wheelchair-bound for more than two decades after falling from a height of eight feet, just before presenting her final thesis for graduation. Subsequently, Attiya underwent surgery for a severe backbone injury that left her lower body paralyzed. Since then, she has expressed her experience of pain, hope, healing, compromise, and happiness through a visual account, arranged in small frames covering various phases of her life. The armour, artiforceps, socks, bandages, blood, and the affected first lumbar vertebrae of her spinal column have become visual metaphors for all her feelings. Attiya’s work has been exhibited extensively locally and internationally at various art institutions such as Canvas Gallery, Karachi; Gandhara Art Space, Karachi; O Art Space, Lahore; Satrang Art Gallery, Islamabad; Rohtas 2, Lahore; Numaish Gah, Lahore; Aicon Gallery, Palo Alto; Anant Art, New Delhi; Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo + BTAP, Japan; Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco; and others.
Her artworks are housed in the permanent collection of the Ambiance Boutique Art Hotels. Read less
Attiya uses personal references from her life as part of her artistic practice and utilises her power of expression to depict the body and soul rather than treat art as a career. She has been wheelchair-bound for more than two decades after falling from a height of eight feet, just before presenting her final thesis for graduation. Subsequently, Attiya underwent surgery for a severe backbone injury that left her lower body paralyzed. Since then, she has expressed her experience of pain, hope, healing, compromise, and happiness through a visual account, arranged in small frames covering various phases of her life. The armour, artiforceps, socks, bandages, blood, and the affected first lumbar vertebrae of her spinal column have become visual metaphors for all her feelings. Attiya’s work has been exhibited extensively locally and internationally at various art institutions such as Canvas Gallery, Karachi; Gandhara Art Space, Karachi; O Art Space, Lahore; Satrang Art Gallery, Islamabad; Rohtas 2, Lahore; Numaish Gah, Lahore; Aicon Gallery, Palo Alto; Anant Art, New Delhi; Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo + BTAP, Japan; Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco; and others.
Her artworks are housed in the permanent collection of the Ambiance Boutique Art Hotels. Read less
Attiya Shaukat (born 1980) is a visual artist currently based in Karachi, Pakistan. She completed her BFA from the National College of Arts, Lahore in 2004.
Attiya uses personal references from her life as part of her artistic practice and utilises her power of expression to depict the body and soul rather than treat art as a career. She has been wheelchair-bound for more than two decades after falling from a height of eight feet, just before presenting her... Read more
