Amna Asghar’s work looks to the American experience through a multitude of cultural motifs: from her family’s Pakistani popular culture ephemera to Disney movies to Jean-Léon Gérôme’s orientalist paintings, to Hudson River School works, to currents of contemporary political thought. Asghar draws from her own life in the Detroit area where she grew up and now resides, making sophisticated works that mix imagery across cultures, creating conversation between communities.
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Interview
Amna Asghar Interviewed for The Museum of Non-visible Art

News
Amna Asghar is Participating in Commissioner Detroit
Amna Asghar is a part of the Commissioner Detroit Inaugural Artist Editions, a program that brings together locals and artists in their cities. Click here to watch a video of Asghar discussing her process.

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Amna Asghar: Studio Remix
Edition No.8 of KLAUSGALLERY.CLOUD focuses on Amna Asghar’s studio practice. This edition takes an indepth look at the reference materials and the methods in creating the paintings.

Review
Amna Asghar on Reclaiming Orientalist Imagery
Emily Watlington interviewed Amna Asghar about her practice for Art in America.

museum exhibition
Amna Asghar solo exhibition at MoCAD
Amna Asghar's first solo museum exhibition, Well Wishes, is on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. Well Wishes features works that intertwine Asghar’s familial archive with found images from American and Pakistani popular cultures. The exhibition suggests that art is a technology that can flatten time, shorten geographical distance, and speak across cultural borders. The exhibition runs June 4 - August 8, 2021.

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