Amna Asghar

Asghar's paintings combine cropped fragments of texts and images from Pakistani digest magazines, Arabic/Urdu text, advertisements, and personal ephemera. Influenced by jhankaar, a method of musical remixing, Asghar's compositions entangle memory, colonialism, and conflicted desire to address identity formation and its rhythmic uncertainties.


Amna Asghar holds an MFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA from Michigan State University. She has recently exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery (New York), Hotel Art Pavilion (Brooklyn), Harmony Murphy Gallery (Los Angeles), UNTITLED San Francisco, “Nasty Women” at the Knockdown Center (Queens), Whitney Houston Biennial (New York), Erin Cluley Gallery (Dallas), Hawkeye Crates (Brooklyn), Bruce High Quality Foundation (New York), The Bowery Poetry Club (New York), and Para Site (Hong Kong). In 2016, her work was included in “80 x 80” at the Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC. Asghar was featured in the 2017 Focus section of the Armory Show in New York, a solo booth presented by Harmony Murphy Gallery curated by Jarrett Gregory.