Dua Abbas Rizvi ^{Noor kunstnik}

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Dua Abbas Rizvi is a visual artist with a background in literature and art journalism. In her artistic practice, she explores themes of visibility and erasure — in histories, archives, and everyday life — as well as the ambivalences of language. Working with both found and original media, along with fragments of her own writing, she reflects on subjectivity, memory, and the complexities of context.

Her work has been widely exhibited in Pakistan, where she earned her BFA, and internationally, particularly in museum shows presenting contemporary art from South Asia. These include exhibitions at The National Art Gallery of Pakistan, COMO Museum of Art, and the Lahore Heritage Museum. In 2018, she took part in the first survey exhibition of contemporary Pakistani art in Italy at the Museo Diocesano in Milan, documented in a companion publication by Skira Editore. Rizvi is also the first Pakistani artist to have exhibited at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York, as part of the Stations of the Cross exhibition curated by art historian Dr. Aaron Rosen. Her work for that show, which centered on migration and transcultural devotional expression, received critical acclaim in The Brooklyn Rail.

She has had further exhibitions in the United States, where she is represented by The Parsonage Gallery (Maine), as well as in Canada and the UAE. Her works are part of the Luciano Benetton Imago Mundi Collection and the Henry Luce III Center for the Arts & Religion in Washington, D.C.

Rizvi is currently completing her MFA at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki and working on her graphic memoir, for which she received the South Asia Speaks Fellowship in 2022.