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Huma Mulji

1970– · contemporary Pakistani artist

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Huma Mulji (born Karachi, 1970) is a contemporary Pakistani artist whose works are held in collections such as the Saatchi Gallery in London and the Asia Society Museum in New York. She trained at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture in Karachi, where she completed her BFA in 1995, and received an MFA from the Transart Institute in Berlin in 2010.

From 2003 to 2015 she was an associate professor at the School of Visual Arts, Beaconhouse National University in Lahore. She later taught in the UK, first as a visiting artist at Goldsmiths' College in London from 2015 to 2017. Her work combines sculpture, painting, photography and installation, and explores the relationship between culture, context and perception, drawing on the visual culture of her South Asian heritage. The city, the everyday and the overlooked are her main subjects.

Her installation Arabian Delight (2008) pairs a taxidermy camel stuffed into a suitcase with questions of economic migration and the Arabization of Pakistan. It was shown at Art Dubai but removed after a few days to avoid a controversial topic, a move that drew even more attention to the piece. Charles Saatchi eventually bought it. In 2017 she received the Nigaah Art Award.