DETROIT INAUGURAL ARTIST EDITIONS

Amna Asghar

Amna Asghar’s work looks to the American experience through a multitude of cultural motifs: from her family’s Pakistani popular culture ephemera to Disney movies to Jean-Léon Gérôme’s Orientalist paintings to Hudson River School works, to currents of contemporary political thought. Amna draws from her own life in the Detroit area where she grew up and now resides, making sophisticated works that mix imagery across cultures, creating conversations between communities.

She received an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2014. Amna’s work was featured in the Armory Show FOCUS section with Harmony Murphy Gallery, curated by Jarrett Gregory. She has shown at Klaus von Nichtssagend, New York, NY; Super Dutchess, New York, NY; Hotel Art Pavilion, Brooklyn, NY; Hawkeye Crates, Brooklyn, NY; NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY; Knockdown Center, Queens, NY; Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC; Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO; Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC and Para Site, Hong Kong, CN. Her work was recently included in the group exhibition Parallels and Peripheries, curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah at VisArts, Rockville, MD. She had her second solo exhibition at Klaus von Nichtssagend, New York, NY in the Fall of 2019. Asghar’s first museum solo was in Spring of 2021 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.

Learn more about Asghar on her website here.