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.Group Ingram Prize Shortlist 2024,Art on PostCard, Soho Revue, Through the Glass Darkly- Niru Ratnam, Whose Curry is it anyway- Feminist Library.
Ms. Mushtaq has received the Muse Residency Award 2021-2022, the Bridgeman Artist Award,2019 Carpenter's Wharf Studio Residency Award for 2019, London, INKSTER PRINT Residency 2019 and the SANAT Artist Residency Award, 2014, Pakistan.
Mushtaq is currently a senior lecturer at Camberwell College of Art, and is based in London.