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Born in Lahore, Anila Quayyum Agha has an MFA in Fibre Arts from the University of North Texas. She received a BFA from the National College of Arts, Lahore, in 1989. Agha works in a cross disciplinary fashion with mixed media; creating artwork that explores global politics, cultural multiplicity, mass media, and social and gender roles in our current cultural and global scenario. As a result her artwork is conceptually challenging, producing... Born in Lahore, Anila Quayyum Agha has an MFA in Fibre Arts from the University of North Texas. She received a BFA from the National College of Arts, Lahore, in 1989. Agha works in a cross disciplinary fashion with mixed media; creating artwork that explores global politics, cultural multiplicity, mass media, and social and gender roles in our current cultural and global scenario. As a result her artwork is conceptually challenging, producing complicated weaves of thought, artistic action and social experience.

In the artist’s words, “Through the use of a variety of media, from large sculptural installations to embroidered drawings I explore the deeply entwined political relationships between gender, culture, religion, labor and social codes. In my work I have used combinations of textile processes such as embroidery, wax, dyes, and silk-screen printing along with sculptural methodologies to reveal and question the gendering of textile work as inherently domesticated and excluded from being considered an art form.”

Agha’s work has been exhibited in over seventeen solo shows and fifty group shows and has won numerous awards and grants. Agha won the two top prizes at ArtPrize 2014, in the international art competition held in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Her entry, titled “Intersections”, earned the ArtPrize 2014 Public Vote Grand Prize and split the Juried Grand Prize in a tie.

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