Hina Khan

Hina Khan is a Pakistani-Irish visual artist based in Kinsale, County Cork who works across traditional miniature painting, large-scale works on paper, and site-specific installation. Her practice draws on training in miniature painting from Fatima Jinnah Women University in Pakistan, using techniques such as gouache on wasli and squirrel-hair brushes. She extends her work to painted architecture, murals, video, and large works on paper, addressing themes like migration, displacement, borders, gender, and environmental collapse.

Hina Khan is based in Kinsale, County Cork, and her work is held in the permanent collection of the Arts Council of Ireland. She has undertaken site-specific mural commissions, including one through the Meta Open Arts programme in Dublin. Her practice operates between the scale of a court scene and the scale of a wall, a river, or a border.

The artist uses gouache on wasli and squirrel-hair brushes for her miniature painting. She also works with acrylic and ink on walls for murals. Her series include 'Garden of Anthropocene' on paper and 'Visible Invisible' graphite drawings at wall scale.

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The Meta Open Arts programme commissioned a site-specific mural for Hina Khan. The vocabulary of the miniature, including coiled linework and layered wash, was carried up onto architecture. This project wrapped corners, doorways, and columns at the scale of a room in Dublin.

Hina Khan's work returns repeatedly to migration, displacement, gender, and restriction. She addresses social and humanitarian subjects through her art. The quiet violence of the line drawn on a map is a recurring theme in her practice.

The artist's work is described as tracing borders, migration, and the weather of the Anthropocene. She works between the disciplined patience of the miniature and the scale of a wall or a river. Her practice addresses social and humanitarian subjects through a mixture of traditional technique and large-scale installation.

Hina Khan's work includes 'No Serhadain — No Borders', which is a miniature painting turned toward migration. It renders boats, crossings, and crowds in gouache on wasli. This tradition built to celebrate courts now records the people who move between them.

The 'Tondi' series consists of circular panels in deep indigo and ember red. They are worked in heavy paint and traced over with fine silver linework. These panels depict night water and the shapes moving under it.

Hina Khan's work includes 'Garden of Anthropocene', which features vast tea-stained landscapes on paper. Coastline, cloud, and sediment become the same substance in these ink drawings. The ground appears to be dissolving and re-forming through obsessive repeated curls.

The artist has a history of reported fallout with producer Rajan Shahi after nearly 10 years. They recently reunited for a picture at a Diwali celebration. News articles state that both parties have reconciled and that all is well between them.

The official website of Hina Khan is hinakhan.info.

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