Sharrissa Iqbal
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Sharrissa Iqbal is an American contemporary artist whose practice spans painting, printmaking, and mixed media, often exploring themes of identity and negotiation of cultural heritage within a Western context. Her work frequently engages with the complexity of dual identities, navigating South Asian and North American cultural frameworks. She employs a visual language that blends figuration with abstraction, drawing on both Western art historical traditions and South Asian aesthetics, including the influences of Los Angeles hard edge painting and abstraction in Islamic art. Her paintings are characterized by flat planes of solid color experiment with different degrees of abstraction and figuration.
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Artists in conversation
Chila Kumari Singh Burman
Burman similarly navigates South Asian and British identities through vibrant figurative and mixed media work, blending popular visual cultures from both traditions to interrogate femininity and diaspora experience.
Hurvin Anderson
Anderson engages with questions of cultural belonging and dual identity through a practice that merges figuration with art historical reference, making his work resonate strongly with Iqbal's negotiation of insider and outsider positions.
Lubaina Himid
Himid uses figurative painting and mixed media to recover marginalized cultural identities and challenge Western art historical frameworks, sharing Iqbal's commitment to centering underrepresented female subjectivities.
Artists who inspired them
Shahzia Sikander
Sikander's reinvention of South Asian miniature painting traditions within a contemporary Western context directly informs Iqbal's approach to weaving Mughal and classical South Asian references into her figurative and abstract practice.
Sutapa Biswas
Biswas was a foundational figure in articulating South Asian diasporic female identity through visual art in Britain, and her theoretical and painterly engagement with postcolonial femininity offered Iqbal a critical framework for her own practice.