Naira Mushtaq

Naira Mushtaq (b.1990) is a multidisciplinary artist and educator based in London. She earned an MA from Central Saint Martins with distinction as a recipient of the International Vice-Chancellor Scholarship.

Working primarily in painting, she engages in the stories, memories, spaces, and objects that relate to our collective histories and the histories of immigrant settlers through socio-political and cultural contexts. She examines memory as a form of the impalpable archive. At the same time, the tangible photograph or sourced materials aid in its inaccuracy, a palimpsest of truths and half-truths. This practice-led research aims to merge personal and political and resituate the works in the decolonial canon.

Her recent projects include a solo presentation, ‘The Order of Things’, Art MaMA, Ingram Prize Shortlist 2024, Art on Post Card, Soho Revue, Through the Glass Darkly - Niru Ratnam, and Whose Curry is it anyway- Feminist Library.

Ms. Mushtaq has received the Muse Residency Award 2021 - 2022, the Bridgeman Artist Award, 2019, the Carpenter's Wharf Studio Residency Award 2019, London, INKSTER PRINT Residency 2019.

Ms. Mushtaq is currently a senior lecturer at Camberwell College of Art.