Artist Bio

Noor Ahmed, (b. 1997. Karachi, PK.) is a Los Angeles based artist whose work engages in cultural and diasporic storytelling as a South Asian Muslim. Noor spent most of her childhood in LA, growing up into a sort of cross culture that involved assimilation to American culture while retaining her dominant South Asian and Islamic heritage. Muslim garments such as the hijab she wore frequently as a child, and cultural roots reveal themselves through iconography in her work.

Noor references life in both Pakistan and Los Angeles. In her work, Noor explores an environment that is more mystical than the one we assume in our everyday. The work often emphasizes ecology; it explores a relationship between the animalistic and the humanistic while critiquing politicized notions of Pakistani-American existence. Her work blurs lines between animal, human, feminine, and masculine.