Rashid Rana is a contemporary Pakistani artist who works incorporating painting, installation, photography, and collage. He is widely considered to be the leading Pakistani artist of his generation. Before gaining wider, international exposure after the millennium, Rashid first came to prominence in South Asia alongside artists such as Subodh Gupta.
Rashid was born in Lahore, Pakistan in 1968 where he lives and works. He has been involved in numerous exhibitions with his works in abstractions on canvas in Pakistan and abroad. Rashid is a multidisciplinary artist known for have made photo mosaics; photo sculptures; large stainless steelworks; photographic/video performances; collages using found material; and collaborations with a billboard painter.
Life and Studies
Rashid Rana trained as a painter at the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan. Where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1992. Later he received a Master of Fine Arts from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston in 1994, Massachusetts, USA. He actually serves as an associate professor, he is one of the founding faculty members and the head of the Fine Art department of the School of Visual Arts and Design (SVAD), Beaconhouse National University, Lahore.
Veil III (2004). Photo: christies.com
The principal works of Rashid have a political edge and often include a dialogue with the painting. These have been displayed in various exhibitions around the world. Like his show “Perpetual Paradox” at the Mu

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