Ujala Khan (born 1990) is an abstract artist currently based in Islamabad, Pakistan. An architect by education, she began her artistic journey as an exercise in expressive meditation.

Through this process, she developed her own unique perspective and signature style, inspired by a vast array of sources ranging from Carl Jung’s Dream Symbolism to Arthur Rimbaud’s Une Saison en Enfer, and driven by her need to recognize, if not understand, the resonance in the chaos of things. This attempted reconciliation is depicted in Ujala’s work as a dialogue between the artist and the subject, utilizing bold colours and dramatic brushwork in an automatistic fashion that is expressionist in essence and holistic by intent.

In her earliest body of work, as shown at Covert Conversations, Islamabad in 2016; Catharsis, Islamabad in 2017; and Chiaroscuro, Dubai in 2017, Ujala explored the self as a juxtaposition to a shared anthropological heritage. In subsequent exhibitions such as Focus on Pakistan, London in 2018; Spatial Fluidity, Islamabad in 2018; Vagaries of a Non-Objective Mind, Karachi in 2018; Pakistan @ 100, Islamabad in 2019; and Kashmir Through The Eyes Of An Artist, Lahore in 2019, her work shifted towards an intense examination of culture and history while delving deeper into consciousness and individualism. According to the artist, it challenges the dichotomy of “ ‘me’ versus ‘us’ ”.  Ujala’s latest work is an examination of this narrative and its relationship with contemporary society at various levels of self.

A selection of Ujala’s artworks are housed within the permanent collection of the Ambiance Boutique Art Hotels.