Trained in Mughal miniature painting in Lahore, Pakistan, Nusra Latif Qureshi has developed a rich, contemporary visual language that pushes the boundaries of her artform. Her works feature motifs from the past, ideas from the present, and techniques from both, often on small, sparingly painted surfaces. Isolated female figures foreground layered imagery appropriated from colonial photography, patterns from textiles, silhouettes and botanical paintings. While presenting history as a collection of overlapping fragments, Qureshi reveals complex stereotypes, which are in turn rearranged to construct new narratives. 

Select solo exhibitions: Nusra Latif Qureshi, Art Gallery New South Wales, Sydney, 2024 (forthcoming); Shallow encounters in deep waters, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2023; Nusra Latif Qureshi: The Land I See Is Not Elsewhere, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, 2022; Promises of a Parallel Cosmos, Warrnambool Art Gallery, 2021; Strategies of Intent, 4A Centre for contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, 2019; Views from the Gold Pavilion, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2018; Of Birds of prey/paradise, Utopia and perhaps Elysian Fields, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2015; The biological remains of an eighteenth century sampler, Chawkandi Art Clifton, Karachi, 2014; Simulacra – strategies of selves, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2013; Desires of Memory, Rohatas Gallery, Lahore, 2013; Forever and Ever, Green Cardamom, London, 2012; Realms of Intimacy: Miniaturist Practice from Pakistan, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, 2011; The Invisible Gun, Chawkandi Art Gallery, Karachi, 2009; Acts of Compliance, Studio Glass Gallery, London, 2005; The Way I Remember Them, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, 2004.

Select group exhibitions: Hair Pieces, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2024; Local Remix: Still Life, Montsalvat Barn Gallery, Eltham, 2024; Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniature Painting and Britain, 1600 to Now, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK, 2023; Landfall Press: Five Decades of Printmaking, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, USA, 2024; Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present, Sharjah, UAE, 2023; SOUL Fury, Bendigo Art Gallery, 2021; So Fine: Contemporary women artists make Australian history, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, 2018; The Shape of Time, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Wien, 2017; Nothing to Declare?, The Academy of Arts, Berlin, 2013; Negotiating This World: Contemporary Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, 2012; Beyond the Self, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, 2011; Contemporary Miniatures, QAGOMA, Brisbane, 2011-12; The Global Contemporary, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, 2011; Drawn From Life, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, 2011; The Rising Tide, Mohatta Palace Museum, Karachi, 2010; Beyond The Page, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, 2010; 53^rd Venice Biennale: East West Divan: Contemporary Art from Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, Venice, 2009.